Yesterday James Franco posted a semi-revealing article in The Huffington Post about what he’s been doing and where he’s been staying while filming The End Of The World in New Orleans.
In the article Franco describes where he is staying, writing, “[I] found a small apartment complex with an enclosed courtyard off Charters Street for my posse and me.”
He also describes the Ghost Tour he took with his hair woman Nana and his production consultant Iris.
“We had stupidly missed Jazz Fest the previous weekend and haven’t yet been to Frenchmen Street to hear any music, so the ghost tour was a way to engage with New Orleans, if only in a silly, touristy way.”, he explains.
He also shared a few “fun facts” he learned along the way form his tour guide.
“…The dead buried in New Orleans outnumber the living 10-to-1 (4 million to 400,000) and the French Quarter is cursed because it was built on top of a Native burial ground. He told us that New Orleans has recorded the highest number of missing-persons cases since those statistics began being tracked. There was something strange about hearing all this at the start of a walking tour.”
James also described some of the locations on the tour, including the house where they shot Interview With A Vampire, a mansion that was once owned by Nicolas Cage, and a house where two kidnapper brothers “strapped their victims to chairs and drained their blood” in the 1930s.
Franco summarized the tour by saying, “The New Orleans tours make entertainment out of subject matter that would be on the news if it happened today.”
You can read the entire article here and find out how to take your own New Orleans Ghost Tour here.
When he’s not out “engaging” with New Orleans, Franco has been shooting The End Of The World at various locations around Louisiana including Maine Street at Jefferson Highway in Old Jefferson and a sound stage in Elmwood, LA.
If you spot the cast of The End Of The World hanging out or filming in NOLA, let us know at olv@onlocationvacations.com!
