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As soon as McDonald's introduced its Hamburglar mascot for new ad campaign, James Franco wrote about the fast food chain in an op-ed published in The Washington Post. Apparently the op-ed turned to be a love letter as the 37-year-old got nostalgic by revealing the good old days with the "Big Mac" company.

After expressing his concern about the chain's declining profits, he started his nostalgia by writing, "All I know is that when I needed McDonald's, McDonald's was there for me. When no one else was." He went on sharing that he dropped out of UCLA because he wanted to pursue his aspiration in the movie industry.

He also shared that he once worked at McDonald's as his parents told him that he would have to support himself if he wasn't enrolled in college. Before working at the chain, he said that he had very little work experience as he often got fired for reading while working.

As he joined McDonald's, he was assigned to drive-thru position. While serving his customers, he often practiced various accents for his acting class. "I was given the late shift drive-thru position. I wore a purple visor and purple polo shirt and took orders over a headset. I refrained from reading on the job, but soon started putting on fake accents with the customers to practice for my scenes in acting class," he added. "As bad as the accents were (Brooklynese, Italian, British, Irish, Russian, Southern), people actually found them persuasive. I was asked to give Italian lessons to a cute young woman who thought I was from Pisa; of course I couldn't follow up as I did not speak Italian."

Besides practicing fake accents, the actor sneakily did "fun" stuff such as "eating the cheeseburgers that were headed for the trash," "sneak[ing] frozen apple bars and eat them in the freezer, still frozen - great with coffee" and eating french fries "straight from the fry hopper." He also wrote that McDonald's treated him fairly well when he worked there.

He closed his "love letter" by writing, "After reading 'Fast Food Nation', it's hard for me to trust the grade of the meat. But maybe once a year, while on a road trip or out in the middle of nowhere for a movie, I'll stop by a McDonald's and get a simple cheeseburger: light, and airy, and satisfying."