October 4th, 2011
09:45 AM ET
'Hung' star on experimenting sexually with menIt sounds like Thomas Jane might've had a few personal experiences to draw from for his role as "Hung's" high school coach-turned-prostitute Ray Drecker. The actor tells the Los Angeles Times that growing 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 favors." Jane continues, "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?"
At that age, he explains to the L.A. Times, a "you're a lot more open to experimentation. And for me, being a young artist and broke in Los Angeles, I was exploring my sexual identity. And probably because of my middle-class, white blue-collar upbringing, I would have never had the opportunity to confront some of my own fears and prejudices had I not been hungry enough to be forced to test myself in that way." After that kind of exploration, Jane says, you're more aware of your choices. "I chose to be a heterosexual guy because that's what my DNA dictates and my nurture dictates that I am," he says. "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 like it or not, as my mom always said." |
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Dunno about the sandwich however since hollyweird is run buy the power gay's I'd say that this dude was pretty smart.. More gay advertisers signing up for his show.. Hope he gets at least 20% of the take.. Wonder if Charlie Sheen liked sandwiches back in the day.. He coulda got paaaaaaid... bahahahahahahh
nasty
Was his sandwich a hoagie?
I used to suck d**k for crack.Have you ever sucked d**k for marijuana?
Its true,I seen him
Mmm, he's hot! At least he is being open and honest about it. There are MANY more men that's done the same thing.
What does being an artist have to do with this way of earning sandwiches?
I always saw this guy as gay and I'm a straight guy myself. He just gave me a gay impression in every movie I saw him in. If this is his way of coming out of the closet, it's pretty pathetic. Bet his wife is just overjoyed though.
AWESOME ACTOR, MY WIFE AND I LOVE THE SHOW...I AM NOT TO SURE HOW TO GRASP THE CONCEPT OF HIM EVEN EXPLORING THIS ISSUE WITH A NEWSPAPER. I DO NOT THINK I CAN LOOK AT THE SHOW THE SAME WAY, BUT MY WIFE SAY IT MAKES HIM HOTTER!! WEIRD..I GUESS HE TOLD THE STORY BEFORE SOME1 ELSE DID!!
I don't care who experiments with who...all I know is that they better be wearing some condoms. Young gay men and young african american women are still the fastest growing HIV populations in US.
THAT'S BECAUSE BLACK MEN ARE THE #1 CLOSET CASES IN AMERICA. BE HONEST WITH YOURSELF!! THEY CALL IT DL, AND IT SHOULD BE ACRONYNM FOR "DESTROYING LIVES"....
THE PREVIOUS STATEMENT WAS MADE TO TOUCH ON YOUR ISSUE AS TO WHY HIV IS RAPIDLY SPREADING AMONG BLACK WOMEN...
YOU don't have to take a big mouth full of crap to know it tastes bad.
ryrcant even pretend to imagne
This artical is so gay. I would never do that for a sandwich – or money for that matter.
I can't tell if your using "gay" in place of "stupid" or using it because it is often used to mean "stupid" and the topic of the article involves a guy going down on another guy.
Why have a sandwich when you can have a MANWICH?!
Don't need to try men to know that I love women. Pretty stupid explanation why you "ate sandwiches" for money. I bet your wife didn't know that...
There are SOOOO many better places in LA to get a sandwich besides Santa Monica.
Just pull out your iphone 4S and ask Siri, "Where are the best sandwiches in LA?"
Seems like he had a taste for the Whopper™ sandwich before he ever tried it. Somebody popped his butt button and I think he probably left the control switch on cause he likes it like that.
Why do they only post what idiots have to say?
That is a good looking man. I would have LOVED to experiment with him 🙂
Well, the guy's gotta say SOMETHING to keep his name in the papers. I can just hear his press rep drilling him on what to say.
Wow!! I guess no one on here is even aware that older men troll for the younger guys so they can suck them off, not the other way around. For Tom it was a win/win. He provides a warm meal for some perv and he gets the sandwich in return.
Than he is not very smart – he could have donated his baby batter to a fertility clinic, and made more money than the cost of a sandwich.
Did he swallow? The sandwich of course...
and some people say it's not a choice.
Uh oh, I felt a little tender towards Mr. Jane. I can treat him to a buffet.
Let me guess – an all-you-can-eat buffet?
Perhaps he over generalized. I think he did. His route is not appropriate for everybody, just him. But I believe him.
He must have a really low self esteem to think he's only worth the cost of a sammich.
I just want my kids back.
I still like me tacos!
Let's just say that old baby-faced Timmy more than earned that sandwich from me back in the day.
Oh my gawd. Dealbreaker.
OMG you thought he really was that way? Bummer. I bet you want your sandwich back.
being gay or straight is not a choice, you idiot. many closeted gay men remain married to a woman, not because they are straight, but because they are afraid to come out. they chose to get married, that doesn't make them straight.
I guess that makes them deceptive.
Ooh, goody. Another self-indulgent actor justifying their complete and total lack of self-control.
Hey! He's being all edgy and cool, don't pizz on his vibe.
Welp, if the Buzzer was gay, I guess I'd buy this dude a sammich and get me some hot action
No straight person would ever do gayness just for money. I would rather go steal or pick up empty cans and stuff than do gay acts for money. Been in the closet much Tom Jane?
You'd be surprised what artist will do. They are typically more open to these things.
Desperate attention hogs, more like. Oooh – he's just so edgy and unpredictable!!!!!! Yawn.
I guess he used to get it "Hung" in some guy's mouth!
I just love how everybody and their brother or sister has the "I'm a little bit gay – pay attention to me!" need to shock thing going on. So you tried your own kind – BFD. Desperate to be edgy and cool, or what? Who cares who gave a little something to get a little something. I thought being a hoe was one of the oldest professions? Whoop de yawn.
Gee, don't do gay folks any favors... he tried both and decided to go hetro... teabaggers will swoon over that comment!
And those foolish gays claim it's not a choice! Those silly tricksters.
If he wants to kill his career he should just keep talking...
When he speaks he makes it clear that there are bimbos of all genders.
Sounds to me like a lame publicity ploy for his show.
his penis is named 'the punisher'
He is creepy.
I do not stick my finger in my rear end and then in my mouth. I do not stick my finger in any female or male rear end and then stick it in my mouth or their mouth. My DNA says it will taste bad.
Your mom says she likes it. Likes it A LOT.
Excuse me she has a real bad toilet potty trench mouth.Belllllch!
Hey Jared, move over! Subway just found a new spokesperson.
Hey I won't mind sucking off a few of you guys on here. Then after take me out for a sandwich. big gals need loving to. I can take mad, evel, junkpile. oh heck! I can take y'all all at once, just feed me after.
even if they're uncut? if yes do you lick under the skin too? hot I do
Gives new meaning to "special sauce"....
First the man chowder, than some subway. It's called "soup and a sandwich."
WAY HOT! I NEED TO GET ME SOME OF THAT SAMMICH ACTION!
I would have found a job within walking distance. Like maybe a sandwich shop.
What a freakin weirdo. Wasn't his last resort, but his favorite choice.
Didn't they have homeless shelters?
Yuck
Hmmm, I have never experimented with a guy-but I think that has more to do with fear that other people (or myself) would think I was gay if I did. I'm happily married to my wife and quite satisfied so it's a moot point. However, I don't think there is anything wrong with experimenting in youth and figuring out what you like and don't like.
True. True. But please use protection.
Maybe he just wasn't sure what side of the fence he belonged on, and that was his way of learning first hand what works and what didn't. The proportion of people who experiment is probably more than we would like to believe. At least he is being honest about his experimentation, and the conclusion that he came to.
BUT, it's not for everyone. Many people are born knowing exactly which direction their DNA is taking them, and for them I see no need for experimentation to learn what they already know, unless it is their conscious choice to do so.
If your in you late teens and still don't know "which side of the fence" your on... ( 9 out of 10 gays will tell you they knew by the time they were five.)
Don't agree with him. Does that mean you have to try everything to know what you want? In extreme cases, would you have to murder to know you're not a murderer, or less extreme, do you have to steal to know you don't want to steal? People can choose without experimenting, and in fact, that's usually what should be done- choice based off of values. Of course you can make mistakes, and learn from such, but it's not a requirement for learning what is right, let alone right for you.
I was almost going to yell at you for saying being gay is a choice... then I saw that last sentence 😀
I've never tasted dog food...but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like that either.
Never drank gasoline, or put my hand in a crusher, or let a car run over my foot, or put live rats down my pants, or jumped off a cliff, or eaten dirt, or stuck a nail in my ear, or let a snake bite me, or rolled in ants, or bathed in vinegar, or eaten a live toad, or kicked a beehive, or run for president, or smoked a cigar, or fought a pit bull, or recorded a rap album, or been dragged behind a pickup truck, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't like these things. I wouldn't like that sandwich either.
Experimentation is one thing – its still NOT a conscious choice whether you are gay or straight – he had one comment right – its your DNA. There is no "choice" other than choosing to accept yourself for who you are. You are BORN straight or gay.
Or bi, which would be a choice. That's what I think when I hear that kind of talk. I'd rather pick up cans than be part of a sandwich like that.
...Kind of puts The Punisher in an new light...
LOL...no doubt. The tail punisher.
Looks like when The Punisher gets punched in a fight he gets a brown eye instead of a black one...
I know what the guy means. I used to do some pretty crazy stuff back in the day for a sandwich or two, if you know what I mean. It wasn't so bad, but sometimes the sandwiches didn't have enough mayo.
I guess he was punished before he was the punisher....
I do the same thing when I need rent money. It's called Gay for Pay, even though I'd do it for free.
Get some help.
If he let a midget buy him a sandwich, I might just pay to watch...
with mayo of course....... 🙂
He asked for sausage sandwiches.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk3yTXFkyiY&list=PLB4D79CBCEB2586C3&index=5
Gay is not a choice unless you choose to become gay.
Gross the punisher goes both ways.
I guess it would depend if you are the pitcher or the catcher
OK, did this guy just basically say he was a man-ho? Nothing wrong with that...matter of fact, that type of candidness is quite refreshing from the usual "butter can't melt in mouth" b.s. that folks in Hollywood put out.
I thought being gay wasn't a choice? Yet he states it is as if we're all blank slates until we test both sides & is applauded. So, which is it? I'm sure there were other ways he could have earned a few bucks rather than selling himself.
Most people who say they had a choice are bis exual anyway.
Bible Clown is an aetheist of course. But a clown for sure (at best)!
Don't make me bop you with the Clown Hammer™. But seriously, it seems to be people who are either gay or bi who say there's a choice. Yeah, sure there is. Just head over to Santa Monica and get a sandwich? Not me, pal.
So to be a truggling artist he had to be used by gay men? If this is the case then maybe you could have done another perfession. Then he says his DNA means he is not gay but then he says he had to try different things to find this out. I truly do not believe you have to try that to know if you will like ti or not.
True despite the misspellings.
I've never slammed my d*&k in a door jam, but I'm smart enough to know I wouldn't like it.
Thanks............I can't stop laughing!
LOL! Good one..I don't have a d$ck but I agree with you
LOL
Love it
I wouldn't buy him a sammich, though I have some flaming guy pals that would give him a protein shake.
typical of the current agenda and this one will die just like the "L" Word!
Every one dies Tom. How will you be remembered? An A.H. or a friend? From your vindictive post I know which one.
Five years is a long run for a cable show.
Ray dude you're gay.
Ummmm
I've always depended on the kindness of strangers. 🙂
Says a lot about portalpunk to be first to comment on this particular article...
I think I knew that guy when we were 8. Always thought he was a little strange but just went with it since he had the swimming pool.
I'll buy you a sandwich.
There are a lot of things I've never tasted that I just know I wouldn't like, if you know what I mean, and I think you do. I guess what he's saying is that life ain't easy for a boy named Jane.
I used to shove a sandwich down the throat of a boy named Bubba a couple times a week when I lived in LA.
Actually I'm named by opposites, since I'm thin, handsome, and well-educated, but you aren't the first guy to spend hours fantasizing about me! Did you have a good time? I bet you even imagined my underwear. I'm married and happy, and not interested in eating Jane's sandwich. Michael, wrong coast; you'd have been starved for sandwiches where I grew up. Someone might have taken your sandwich away from you and fed it to a dog.
"since I'm thin, handsome, and well-educated" you sound gay
I will buy you a sandwich anytime buddy...........WOW
It was a sandwich alright, a big sausage sandwich.
MMM chocolate.....
good one 🙂
I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.
Funny that you use that name, as James Dean was reported to have blown many in hollyWOOD
ALL I CAN SAY IS EWWWWWWWWWWWWWW!!
why "EWWWWWWWWW"?
Why Ewww Mom? Did you see yourself naked?
So this means because I didn't go downtown on a girl in high school or college and am now married with kids for seven years I don't know if i'm a lesbian or not?Dude you've got issues.
You sound very boring. Yawn.
No you are NOT boring, you are quite normal. Mr. (or Ms) 'You sound very boring.' is the one who has a warped sense of excitement.
You're all idiots to me.
Couldn't agree more. I don't need to go down on any girl to discover if I'm a lesbian underneath it all. Nope. Doesn't even begin to appeal to me.
And just b/c you don't play the same team every once in a while doesn't make you boring. Just means you know what you want (or more importantly don't want).
ummmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm Newslflash Vera!!!! I'D CHECK YOUR HUSBAND'S WANG... Married men with children have been cheating on their wives with the other men for centuries......
hot!
Why would you listen to anyone on a fox blog ? Might as well find another blog, this one is full of sick ppl ! Hale Mary
You meant "Hail Mary."
You can hail mary, shamiqua, lexus or heather...they're all good value for $20...
Amen, sista!
@ portalpunk. You should be thirsty, it is dry in here !