James Franco Wrote a Long, Strange Ad for McDonald's in the Washington Post

Op-ed about his days working there comes at tough time for the chain

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"When I needed McDonald's, McDonald's was there for me. When no one else was."

James Franco offered an unlikely endorsement of the fast-food chain Thursday—at a time when its treatment of employees is under scrutiny—by writing a Washington Post op-ed in which he fondly recalls working there as a struggling actor in the '90s.

It was 1996. Franco had dropped out of UCLA, against his parents' wishes, and was trying to pay his own way while sleeping on a couch in a Los Angeles house with two other actors.

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