Discuss: This Man is Actually Co-Hosting the Oscars

In all sincerity, I am excited about James Franco co-hosting the Oscars with Anne Hathaway. I like him, I like her, and surely we can all agree is that the show will either rock in completely fresh, unprecedented ways, or it will explode in a spectacular, Chernobyl-esque ball of radioactive flame and debris, polluting its Hollywood environs for decades to come. Regardless, we're going to have ourselves a memory! That said, I'm not sure on which scenario I'd bet after seeing Franco's bit in the awards-season actor's roundtable after the jump. Help?

You can simply skip forward to the 1:00 to get Franco's tense-ish, face-palming comments on how/why he'd agree to work David "100 Takes" Fincher, but what's the rush? Settle in for Robert Duvall's introductory context, and stick around for Mark Ruffalo's elaboration on the Fincher technique, using Ryan Gosling as a prop while Jesse Eisenberg and Colin Firth look on. The gang is all here!

But only one of them is going to stroll out on to the slenderest of live-TV limbs next February without a net. What do you think?

· VIDEO: Awards Watch Roundtable: The Actors [THR]