James Franco Was Considered For The Role Of Jesse Custer
If there’s one thing the Preacher television series has done well, it’s been casting incredible actors in the leading roles. But although Dominic Cooper has quickly become synonymous with the hard-drinking Jesse Custer, there was another actor – and a close friend of executive producer Seth Rogen – who was considered for the role at one point.
“We had a nice conversation with James Franco at one point,” revealed executive producer Evan Goldberg. “He looks very Jesse-ish. He was into it, but just literally he has to make 4,000 things in 20 different formats. It would take up his time and he wouldn’t be able to do a Tori Spelling movie or whatever the hell he was going to do.”
“He was dangling from a crane in Venice at the time,” Rogen joked. “So he couldn’t work us in.” But he also pointed out that Franco was someone whose name came up very early in the development process, and he never auditioned for the role. “That was in a very preliminary phase,” Rogen said.