Name me a Hollywood movie that Elisha Cook had a lead role in, and carried? You cannot. Yet the plain reality is that he was one of the "most successful" guys in Hollywood, plain and simple.
As for whether or not Franco has "carried" a lead role, it depends on whether you rely on the opinion of critics, or the opinion of yourself after you've actually SEEN a few of the movies staring the guy you're talking about.
Your pigheadedness is showing, circle.
So you acknowledge you believe you can be one of the “most successful” actors in the industry without ever having had the lead role in a successful movie and can’t carry a movie. Pretty low bar for “most successful”.
I thought we were discussing Elisha Cuthbert.
Because I used to be madly in love with her, before I found out Derek Jeter gave her herpes.