James Franco Directs Tashaki Miyaki’s New Video Starring Juno Temple
By Sheldon Pearce.
On April 7, Los Angeles duo Tashaki Miyaki will release their debut album, The Dream, via Metropolis Records. Today, they’ve shared the music video for the lead single “Girls on T.V.” It’s directed by James Franco, and stars actress Juno Temple (Black Mass, “Vinyl”). Temple “plays an innocent soul seeing Hollywood for the first time,” according to Franco. In a statement, he added that it was inspired by Midnight Cowboy, Fallen Angels, and the Robert Redford movie Electric Horseman. Watch Tashaki Miyaki’s “Girls on T.V.” video below.
This story originally appeared on Pitchfork.
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