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VIDEO: James Franco at the Atlanta Film Festival

By Jennifer Brett
March 26, 2015

James Franco is in Atlanta directing and starring in "In Dubious Battle," with Selena Gomez, Bryan Cranston and Robert Duvall.

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He stopped by the Atlanta Film Festival Wednesday night for a screening of "The Heyday of the Insensitive Bastards." We got a moment with him on the red carpet.

"It's going well," he said of his current filming project, which has been shooting way OTP, in the small town of Bostwick, south of Athens. It'll also shoot in Senoia, "The Walking Dead" country.

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"I just came from the set," he said Wednesday night, chuckling that he probably still had dirt on him from the long day of filming.

Here's what else he had to say:

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