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The student becomes the teacher. Oscar nominee James Franco, 34, lets his fans in on the acting class he's been teaching at North Hollywood's Playhouse.

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Posted on the his WhoSay and Facebook (under the title "Acting class like you've never seen"), we see a group of actors dressed in old fashioned clothing sitting on stage together as Franco explains the point of his class. "What I'm interested in is doing a project with all of you -- that this is an actual project, that we're making something here," he explains. Following a group reading, the students are asked to make masks and wear them.

Check out the black-and-white footage and let us know what you think of Franco's class. Is it artsy, or just plain strange?