Hung's Thomas Jane On His Penis, Getting Naked On-Screen

The star of HBO's new hit series Hung, Thomas Jane plays a basketball coach who makes the most of his extra-large endowment. Here, Jane has a playful chat with Uinterview, in which he demonstrates his super-sized sense of humor and talks about his new movie, The Dark Country, out on DVD October 6.

Clip from HBO's Hung

Q: What did you think when your agent first told you about Hung? - Uinterview: A: My wife [Medium’s Patricia Arquette] reads everything I do. And I showed her this thing I’d been doing, The Mist, which is about creatures from another dimension. And then I showed her this script called Hung, about a guy with a giant dick. And she said, “Great, more science fiction!”
Q: Why do think the show has resonated with people so much? - Uinterview: A: Yeah, they are a little insecure about their penises. We are born to be insecure about [our] penises. I was actually quite happy with mine until I did Hung. Now I don’t know what to think of it, maybe I’m not big enough. I was basically really happy with mine, now I’ve got all these issues and I have to go see a shrink. [laughs] It’s a unique scenario playing a man with a large penis. I didn’t know my penis was going to be famous along with me! If I had known he was going to be famous, I would have treated him better in my younger years – I wouldn’t have rubbed him on the carpet so much and gotten that horrible rug burn. I would have treated him a lot better.
Q: What do you think it says about the changing position of men in our society today? - Uinterview: A: There are only a few positions that you can achieve with any comfort – they’ve been around since the dawn of time – the missionary position, there’s doggy style and there’s the cowboy. They are all great. I prefer 69 – I can feel love making at molecular level.
Q: What are some of the challenges working on set with all of the sex scenes? - Uinterview: A: I feel very comfortable naked. I just feel comfortable when I’m nude. So I shoot in the nude, which becomes a problem during the teaching scenes – you have to add in the clothes digitally later. Those computer guys like a challenge.
Q: Do you get lots strange reactions from your fans? - Uinterview: A: I know now what it’s like to be a woman because I now have to say during a conversation, ‘Hey my eyes are up here!’ They don’t even know that they are doing this. They look at me like they would someone on TV – ‘No actually I can see you too, this reality thing goes both ways.’
Q: Tell us a bit about your background. How did you get your started in acting? - Uinterview: A: To be serious for a moment, I came out to Hollywood Boulevard when I was 18 years old, and I looked at the stars on the sidewalk, and I didn’t know anybody. I know I wanted to be an actor. I knew I could be good at it. I didn’t have a place to live, so slept on park benches, in welfare hotels, lawn mower sheds, and I got little parts in commercials because my buddy’s dad directed commercials. I got my SAG [Screen Actor’s Guild] card when I was 24, I think. I worked my way up the ladder every step of the rung.
Q: You’ve directed a movie called The Dark Country. Tell us about it. - Uinterview: A: [stops to light a cigar] Smoking costs more than I would have spent in a week on food when I was a struggling actor. I love every puff of it. Dark Country is in 3-D. It comes out on video October 6. I’m really f---ing excited about it. It’s unfortunately not in 3D. Technology hasn’t kept up with us. But in a few years, you are going to be able to watch 3D movies on your Blu-Ray player. All your TVs are going to have a 3D button, and you are going be able to slip in a regular old Blu-Ray disc into a regular old Blu-Ray player and watch a movie in 3D. And mine is one of the first – if not the first – purely digital live-action movies ever made. It’s a Hitchcock/David Lynch style thriller. It’s got film noir elements. It’s for people who were abused and twisted. It’s for the darker side of society. It’s a trip – it’s better if you are on medication.

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Comments

I lived in maryland all my life. I live in baltimore county. Never seen anything that look that good here! I have Loved thomas jane for years!My friends and, family laugh at me. I will watch his movies over and, over. He is too fuc-ing hot!! God is so rude to put something that is that damn good looking on this earth knowing,,,, Ya cant have him!!! 69.....

- Posted by debi @ 12/27/09, 04:28 am
thomas jane is so much fun to watch. i always thought he was very attractive. but he is so much more... he is so good on this show so goofy and subtle, confused and baffled, just the way men are! he's simply tops, fun to watch and fun to root for.

- Posted by ccg @ 08/30/09, 10:39 pm
he is so fun to watch!

- Posted by ccg @ 08/30/09, 10:36 pm
I LOVE this show and I think Thomas is adorable, big penis or not. (But I'm hoping big!! LOL!!) I just saw Deep Blue Sea on cable yesterday and geeezzz does he have a rockin' bod in a wet suit! Hang on tight Patricia, he's quite a catch!

- Posted by Bree @ 08/30/09, 12:15 pm
Thomas Jane comes out further that the Punisher. He was great in Highlander as an imortal. I love him then and I love him now. Wow,!! Arquette really got lucky when she captured him MMMM

- Posted by ESTELLE @ 08/25/09, 10:19 am
I can't believe the comment "never heard of him before the show". I've had a total man crush on Thomas J since "Boogie Nights" (Doubtless Mr Jane has legions of horndog, muscle pumping gay male fans like myself). And how choice is it that a smokin hot stud like him struts through life with the name "Jane"--too funny! Not only does the dude have a hot bod, he's got this smoldering sexuality and handsome mug onscreen that's part James Dean and part Robert Conrad of Wild Wild West fame. By all means, keep a bare minimum of clothing on ur hot bod, Tommy! Oh yeah, and you're a really good actor too (proven in a lot of film roles), but please forgive ur fans if the eyes stray down below the belt buckle. We like what we see!

- Posted by Jack @ 08/25/09, 10:15 am
I really like HUNG and I really like Thomas Jane. I never heard of him before the show. I really like Patricia Arquette, too and MEDIUM. HOME RUN...excellent (for them and for me).

- Posted by Susan @ 08/25/09, 05:49 am
Why didn't *I* think of writing a TV series about a penis?

- Posted by Stan Wright @ 08/25/09, 04:26 am
I thought he and Arquette had split up.
And didn't the plural of penis use to be penes?

- Posted by axel @ 08/24/09, 10:14 pm
I love Thomas Jane and I too thought he was awesome as the punisher. I think it's an interesting take, a guy financially struggling and having to use whatever resources he has, in this case a well endowed penis, to supplement his income. It's refreshing to see that men too, have to degrade and belittle themselves to such levels as women have done for centuries. I agree having a female, of course, being the pimp is a great take too. Who else would know what women want more than another woman, who, as most pimps have, has gotten to sample the merchandise. In these hard times, you do what you have to to make ends meet. No judgement here. Hats off to the ladies who know what they want and can afford to pay for it. However, having him fall in love is going to ruin it all. So, lets keep it fun and light, as least for now. A little more fantasy and a little less reality!

- Posted by Adoyle @ 08/24/09, 02:28 pm