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Interview by: Jennifer Krieger
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Tom Jane is perhaps best known for his role as undercover agent Frank Castle in the big-screen adaptation of Marvel Comic’s The Punisher. True film buffs will also recognize him from smaller roles in Dreamcatcher,Boogie Nights, The Last Time I Committed Suicide and The Sweetest Thing. Yet with his breakout performance as a cop turned bank-robber in Stander Jane is poised to become a household name, whether he wants to or not. For despite his admitted gravitation towards smaller, darker roles, in Stander Jane displays the kind of charisma and versatility that may garner him leading-man status. I got a chance to sit down with Jane fresh from the New York promotional circuit and hear what he had to say about preparing for the role of Andre Stander, filming in South Africa, and why he always ends up playing the anti-hero.
Jane does not deny the similarities in the roles of Frank Castle, Andre Stander, Neil Cassidy and Mickey Mantle (who he portrayed in HBO’s 61*) these are “guys who go against the grain.” What they have in common is that “they’re outsiders, (they) struck out on their own path,” some “take the law into their own hands” for good or ill, and all “attained some sense of spiritual freedom” through their subversion of the system. Jane asserts that “characters like this gravitate towards me and I accept” He sees the appeal of these anti-heroes, musing that they play a “necessary role in the context of our lives, (they) represent the other side of the fence. And while their actions can serve as “cautionary tales” they also represent the dark underbelly of our desires. “We all desire (to be these characters) but not all of us are willing to pay the price, so we sit chained to out daily lives, of what’s expected of us.” These are men who “flew too close to the sun” they are “candles that burn twice as bright but have as long” and Jane welcomes them as “recurring themes” of his work.”
When asked if he worried about being typecast, Jane responded that his choices as an actor subvert Hollywood’s attempt to typecast him; he typecasts himself. He readily admits that he pigeon-holes himself in these roles, that he is “comfortable in these kinds of parts,” and muses that there are “not a lot of guys willing or able to play these kinds of parts.” By creating a niche for himself playing the anti-hero, Jane quips that he is “pigeon-holed by being a guy you can’t pigeon-hole” and that suits him just fine. “Pick a color,” Jane declares, “and there’s a million shades of that color.” Jane plans to explore every shade and nuance of the man he has determined, without the pressures and expectations of Hollywood that he wants to play.
And his portrayal will never be simplistic. Jane did extensive research for the role ...
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