--- description: The late night host got tips from the actor about the best way to get pictures with fans title: Watch: James Franco Teaches Jimmy Fallon How to Take Selfies With Fans image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78204d83ab3d0ee9/69869d93cd68487f91095d80/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Late Night Highlight](/tag/late-night-highlight/) ## Late Night Highlight Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch James Franco Teach Jimmy Fallon How to Take Selfies With Fans by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 29, 2014 12:25 PM CUT  From left: James Franco during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in New York City on July 28, 2014. From left: James Franco during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in New York City on July 28, 2014.Douglas Gorenstein—NBC/Getty Images by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Jul 29, 2014 12:25 PM CUT Late night host Jimmy Fallon teased actor James Franco on _The Tonight Show_ Monday for taking selfies with fans wearing huge sunglasses and not smiling. “I’m going to show you why,” said Franco. It turns out, Franco said, most people don’t know how to take a good selfie. But if you put sunglasses on, and a hat on, and you make a stone-like face… “Then you’re going to look good from any angle!” The 36-year-old actor just wrapped up performances of Broadway show _Of Mice and Men,_ which set a box office record [by earning](http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/theater%5Fdance/of-mice-and-men-leaves-broadway-on-a-record-high/2014/07/28/ca29bd9a-16b7-11e4-88f7-96ed767bb747%5Fstory.html?tid=pm%5Fentertainment%5Fpop "undefined") more than a million dollars last week. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3051334/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3051334/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies/"},"headline":"Watch James Franco Teach Jimmy Fallon How to Take Selfies With Fans","datePublished":"2014-07-29T12:25:57.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T09:23:26.417Z","description":"Wear shades and a baseball cap, basically","url":"https://time.com/3051334/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies/","keywords":["Late Night Highlight","Television","Late Night","jimmy fallon","james franco"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78204d83ab3d0ee9/69869d93cd68487f91095d80/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt78204d83ab3d0ee9/69869d93cd68487f91095d80/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"From left: James Franco during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in New York City on July 28, 2014.","caption":"From left: James Franco during an interview with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show in New York City on July 28, 2014.","creditText":"Douglas Gorenstein—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/late-night-highlight/","name":"Late Night Highlight"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3051334/james-franco-jimmy-fallon-selfies/","name":"Watch James Franco Teach Jimmy Fallon How to Take Selfies With Fans"}}]}] ```