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" 2000 The first time I met James Franco, he was dressed like James Dean. He was James Dean, literally, filming a biopic. I was working as a production assistant. I remember walking over to him on set. &amp;quot;Do you want anything to eat?&amp;quot; I asked. And he said in perfect cadence, without an instant of hesitation, &amp;quot;I&amp;#039;m all right, maaiin.&amp;quot; He didn&amp;#039;t break character for the entire production, anywhere at any time on set. He lived on PB&amp;amp;amp;J, Red Bull, and packs of cigarettes. We didn&amp;#039;t talk. I just made him PB&amp;amp;amp;J. I left James Dean alone. FRANCO RESPONDS: I was so deep in character that when I saw how closely Bill resembled Dean&amp;#039;s gay friend Jack Simmons, I fell in love with him.  2001 The next time I saw him, I was a PA on Spider-Man. My first day on set I saw James and we kind of locked eyes and he came over and said, &amp;quot;Hey, man, you worked on James Dean.&amp;quot; He gave me a big hug. Then director Sam Raimi asked me to help drop a fake concrete chunk on James&amp;#039;s head during an explosion scene. But I couldn&amp;#039;t drop it right. It kept bouncing oddly, wildly. Almost a dozen times I screwed it up until Raimi replaced me. He got up on the scaffold, dropped the concrete. It hit James perfectly. FRANCO RESPONDS: Sam is an adept concrete thrower and his favorite thing is to throw things at his actors. He hit me with no problem.  2007 I had a small part in Pineapple Express. I was an actor on this one, not a PA. I came by the set to say hi to everybody. James was there with David Gordon Green and Seth Rogen. I said to James, &amp;quot;Hey, man, how&amp;#039;s it going? You probably won&amp;#039;t remember, but I was a PA on James Dean and Spider-Man.&amp;quot; I figured we would hug or something, like last time. Silence throughout the trailer. Complete, utter silence. &amp;quot;Ohh, cool.&amp;quot; I went to change. FRANCO RESPONDS: When I saw Bill on the set of Pineapple, I don&amp;#039;t think I was silent. I think I asked him to make me a peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwich.  2008 At the beginning of each week at Saturday Night Live, we have a full cast meeting where Lorne Michaels introduces the upcoming host. James came a bit early to the meeting. Everyone was milling around, making small talk. Then Lorne began to settle the room so he could introduce James. Except that he didn&amp;#039;t get a chance to because James was whispering to me. His voice was soft and low. But it was loud enough for the rest of the room to hear. Loud enough for the rest of the room to laugh: &amp;quot;Hey, man, were you a PA on Spider-Man?&amp;quot; Yes I was. And we&amp;#039;ve been friends ever since. FRANCO RESPONDS: That episode, Bill wrote us a sketch about two businessmen who share a glory hole. It didn&amp;#039;t make it to air. --Bill Hader is a cast member of Saturday Night Live. His next movie, Paul, is due in March. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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