Thomas Jane (2015)

Yeah, tell 'em I really love Circle of Blood, where Frank gets thrown in prison with a bunch of the guys that he put there.

Well, the Navy SEAL training was some of the hardest and most rewarding training I've ever done. The SEALS that I worked with were some of the most level-headed, intelligent, and loyal people i've ever met. And with the right story - I'd do it again. Yeah.

No, I never watch them once they're finished. When I go to the premiere, I sneak out the back.

Well, I guess it depends on the fan. Some people are polite. And then other people want to wrestle.

Hehe. He went back to his home planet.

We got some pressure from the studio to change the ending. They even offered to up the budget. But everyone on the crew agreed that this ending was part of what made THE MIST, THE MIST. And Stephen King told Darabont that he wished he'd thought of it.

There's a religious group in India, called the Jain religion. My first film was a Bollywood film that i shot in India, when I was 16 years old.

Well, we shot HUNG 10 minutes from my house. We had great actors come in every week. I loved working with Anne Heche, Jane Adams, and all the beautiful women of HUNG. So it was fun.

I've never seen it.

Oh! The score wasn't written until after we finished the film. I think that... I listened to Metallica. And also the score to FIRST BLOOD.

Well, it was that duality that attracted me so much to portraying him onscreen. I think that greatness in any endeavor requires a tension between two opposites. And that's one of the things i learned from playing The Mick.

Well, the EXPANSE combines 2 of my favorite things: science fiction and film noir. I guess you could call it "future noir." So it's a great character and I'm having a great time shooting it. It should be coming out this summer.

Rutger's an actor that I hold in the highest regard. I'd like to think that some of his great talent rubbed off on me!

It takes place on a city built into an asteroid, which is called Ceres. It's the largest asteroid in the asteroid belt. Almost like a mini-planet. It's crowded, dirty, air and water are at a premium... and mankind has colonies on Mars and a couple of moons spread out around the solar system. It looks like somebody's trying to start a war behind these different colonies.

Hmm.

Wow.

That is... a hard question. There's so much great stuff out there. The books that I read were the EC comics - those probably have some of the best writing - Tales from the Crypt, and Frontline Combat, and Shock / Suspense Stories, and Weird Science Fantasy. Books from the 80's would be Black Hole (there are sorta independent comics), anything by Robert Crumb, and if you can find Cornfed Comics by Kim Deitch, those are a real find too.

Most of 'em love the ending. They think it was really ballsy.

Uh...sausage, mushroom, and red onion.

Wet. We shot at the newly built studio where they shot the TITANIC, in Mexico. It had the largest water-tank in the world. I got some kind of rash that I still have to put medicine on every once in a while from being in the tank so much. They didn't have filters big enough for a tank that size. One of the highlights was riding the giant, mechanical robot shark. They strapped me into it, and the shark went haywire, and went straight to the bottom of a 50 foot pool.

It wasn't so awesome at the time. I was pretty close to drowning when the shark decided to suddenly come up for air.

It almost did a belly-flop on the edge of the pool!

My "vegan powers" died with the steak that I ate last night. And I was never aware of another Punisher video game.

Wow.

Well, uh... he used to smell like Hoyo de Nicaragua.

Frank's just got a great grasp of character. When we shot THE MIST, he had a very popular show on cable, THE SHIELD, so he hired the crew that he worked with on that show, so we shot fast, and in a very improvisational style.

Well, all the scenes were awkward. I'm glad you liked the movie. But for me, it was sort of the most out of character... I don't think I'm really good at that kind of film. The hardest scenes were the comedy between me and Cameron Diaz. The easiest scenes were the ones where we had to kiss.

THANKS! I have it in a box, in my office.

Yes, it was my own. But my mustache ran away with Jennifer Lopez's merkin.

Terrence is a sensitive artist. Halfway through shooting our scene, Terrence and John Toll (our director of photograph) ran off to shoot butterflies for about an hour. He just thought they were cool, you know? So with Terry, you never really know what you're going to get or where the scene is going to go, and it keeps it exciting.

I haven't had an orange Tic-Tac since the 7th grade. But, uh...I used to like 'em a lot.

Well, I learned that Bruce is the guy that you see on the screen.

What I learned: Some people are just born that way.

That's funny. The closest we came to that would be the movie THURSDAY.

The people of Mobile are really receptive, generous, and good-natured. They're not jaded by Hollywood (yet). We were there about 5 weeks for VICE. And we enjoyed it. Everybody had a great time, and the food was great. The strip had a lot of cool bars. It was a good place.

Oh boy. I'll know it when I see it.

Depends on the script! Why don't you write one?

Wow, that would be...*61 where I played Mickey Mantle. I learned how to play baseball with Reggie Smith, I hung out on set everyday with Billy Crystal, and we basically played baseball and made a movie every day, all day. I don't think that can be beaten.

Well, lemme see...looking around here at my books, seeing which one... okay, THE LEAST OF MY SCARS by Stephen Graham Jones. THE HUNTER AND OTHER STORIES by Dashiell Hammett. CIVILIZATIONS BEYOND EARTH by Douglas a. Vakoch and Albert a. Harrison.

I'd recommend all of them.

I've got other ones. Do you want other ones too?

VIRAL MYTHOLOGY by Marie Jones and Larry Flaxman.

Well, my favorite horror film, jeez, that would have to be the Texas Chainsaw Massacre. And I don't think anybody, uh, made it out of that one completely intact.

Hahaha! Well... it's just part of the job, you know. When you rent out an actor, you should have access to all of him / her. You're renting out the whole package, haha!

Pleasant distraction is the spice of life.

Coffee.

Whole-Grain.

Oh man. "No one here gets out alive." But that one's taken.