You could never accuse James Franco of being just another boring and reserved Hollywood star.

This Renaissance man who already has painter, student, writer, soap opera actor (he’s cropped up on popular US soap General Hospital a few times), poet, director and A-lister on his resume, can now add cross-dresser too.

Franco’s was captured here by famed fashion photographer Terry Richardson for Candy, a magazine “dedicated to celebrating transvestism, transexuality, cross dressing and androgyny”.

I must say, he looks kind of fetching , and I particularly like the black heart-shaped earrings and the gold choker. In fact, Franco wouldn’t look amiss in Robert Palmer’s iconic 80’s music video for Addicted to Love.

God knows what the movie executives behind his upcoming Danny Boyle drama 127 Hours and next year’s Planet of the Apes reboot must have thought when they saw this image…

Image via MTV.