"It's tough, man," Dave admitted to me at the South by Southwest premiere of 21 Jump Street. "As much as a I love him and I want to work with him, I want to separate myself from him."
And his killer performance in Jump Street will certainly help him do that. He plays a high school drug dealer being pursued by undercover cops Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum.
"I can't say I ever saw the original [television] series," Franco admitted. "But you've seen the movie. It's a completely different thing. The only crossover really is the concept of undercover cops. I did end up checking out a couple of old episodes to see if there's anything I could draw from but after watching them, it was like, that was an hour drama and we were making a huge action comedy."
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