What follows is the Apes-centric portion of the interview. For the full text, click on the link.
QUESTION: What got you interested in Rise of the Apes?
JAMES FRANCO: I’ll tell you the main thing that got me interested is the fact that Peter Jackson’s effects people from Weta and his DP, Andrew Leslie, and Andy Serkis were involved, and I’m unabashedly a huge fan of Lord of the Rings, and so I thought, "Oh, if they are going to be involved in this, it’s actually going to be a different kind of acting experience.." I’ve never acted off of somebody doing performance capture and Andy Serkis is the best at that, so it could be interesting.