Most often in this industry we end up writing about stars who got their start on daytime, not major movie stars who have decided to join a soap. That's just pretty much unheard of. I wonder if this could be the start of a trend, or if Franco really just had no idea what he was signing up for, or maybe he's a big GH fan. Who knows? There's no word yet on what the character will be like, the story just says "mystery person," but I imagine that it will look like this digital short he did on SNL (well, with probably fewer references to his "ding-dong").