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James Franco does yoga, rocks a Hillary Clinton shirt in ad parodying famous 'Dos Equis' commercial

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(James Franco in a new pro-Hillary Clinton ad, via the Women Vote project.Women Vote)

Democrats hoping to woo millennial voters lukewarm on Hillary Clinton have deployed a towel-clad, yoga-posing James Franco to make a final pitch.

In a digital video released on Thursday by the Women Vote Project, the Academy Award-nominated actor touted several real and fiction Clinton accomplishments, including the Grammy award she won for her audiobook "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Can Teach US."

"She once won a Grammy just for speaking. Hillary Swank is named after one of her pantsuits," Franco said, parodying Dos Equis "Most Interesting Man in the World."

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"I don't always endorse candidates. But when I do, they're extraordinary. Vote wisely, my friends."

Thursday's ad is the latest release of a major $20 million partnership between Emily's List, a group that backs pro-choice female Democratic candidates, and Priorities USA, a major super PAC backing Clinton. The groups particularly hope to boost turnout among millennial voters, who overwhelmingly support the former secretary of state and widely loath Donald Trump, but haven't yet turned out in large numbers to support Clinton. Preliminary early voter totals have been significantly lower than turnout rates in early November 2012.

The ad is the final video of the campaign produced together by the two groups, and the third featuring Franco, who previously appeared shirtless wearing a Hillary Clinton-branded towel to urge young voters to back the former secretary of state.

Emily's List and Priorities will be promoting the digital ad in key battleground states, including Florida, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Nevada, and Pennsylvania.

Watch the ad below, via Women Vote:

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