Well, for one thing, we know Thomas Jane likes to be on the bottom.
As a young struggling actor in Los Angeles, Thomas Jane was a bit of a whore back in the day in order to eat and make ends meet.
I don’t want to come right out and call former PUNISHER and current HUNG star Thomas Jane a male escort or anything, but when you’re homeless and struggling to make it in L.A. and allowing other strange men to buy you sandwiches… No, wait… I changed my mind. That’s pretty whorish behavior.
I’d be more careful with my words around Thomas Jane, but I don’t think he really cares. After all, he was the one offering up the info that he was accepting sexual favors from others back in the day in order to make it in Los Angeles. I guess that gives new meaning to the term “starving artist.” What exactly are they lowering their standards to, as far as what they’ll eat? Sausage?
Jane recently talked with the L.A. Times while promoting the new season of HUNG, and when he was asked about his love-hate relationship with the gay media, he recapped a couple different run-ins before heading into some unexpected territory.
“Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in L.A., I was homeless, I didn’t have any money and I was living in my car. I was 18. I wasn’t averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?”
No. I don’t know what you mean, Thomas. Are you trying to imply that James Dean was dishing out the oral sex in exchange for some pastrami on rye? And when did “buy me a sandwich” become code for trading sex for good favors? On all the HBO documentaries I ever watched, those on the job always used to ask “Want to party?” or “Looking for a date?” Man, how times have changed…
But that’s not all. Later when Jane was asked if he thought homosexuality/heterosexuality was a choice, he started rattling off life lessons his mother gave him. “I don’t know. I think up to a point it’s a choice. But I’ll tell you what — it’s not a choice until you’re open enough to experience both male and female sexuality. Until you’ve tasted the food, you don’t know whether you’ll like it or not, as my mom always said.” I bet his mother right now is wishing she would have been a little less subtle and just told her son, “Don’t have butt sex with any strange men you meet on the street in exchange for sandwiches. In fact, I’m going to run down to the neighborhood school and dish out that advice to everyone I can. I’m pretty sure I’ll be considered a hero… or be prohibited from coming within 500 feet of the property. Either way, I will have done my part to educate the youth of America.
