Jim Spellman/WireImageSure, some people have friends and family, but James Franco has McDonald's.
Less than 24 hours after the fast food chain unveiled their new Hamburglar, the actor put pen to paper to wax poetic about his longtime love of golden arches.
"McDonald's sales have slumped. Maybe the public wants healthier food. Maybe there's too much competition. Maybe people aren't into the chipotle barbecue snack wrap…All I know is that when I needed McDonald's, McDonald's was there for me. When no one else was."
Franco details how he began working at the burger chain while beginning his career in Los Angeles and admitted that he would put on fake accents with customers to practice for his acting class.
"I had been a vegetarian for a year before working there because I was obsessed with River Phoenix, a staunch vegetarian—he actually cried on a date with Martha Plimpton when she ordered soft-shell crabs. But as soon as I got to McDonald's and was paying my own way, I started eating the cheeseburgers that were headed for the trash after being under the warming lamps from more than seven minutes. I would also sneak frozen apple bars and eat them in the freezer, still frozen—great with coffee."
Franco also joked that "Parents ordering for their children are the worst, and parents ordering for a group of children, like a sports team, are the devil incarnate…Some customers seem to think that paying for food entitles them to boss the service workers around, but if you're buying fast food, how much entitlement does that buy you?"
In the end, he says, he was "treated fairly well at McDonald's."
"If anything, they cut me slack…When I was hungry for work, they fed the need."