12/6/2023 0 Comments Thomas jane expanseHis parents were building the space station, so those people died out in space. “I decided that this guy grew up in space. “He certainly doesn’t seem to care, but I would like people to like him,” Thomas added. That will be fun for a while.JANE plays Joe Miller in the SyFy show “The Expanse.”Īsked for his take on his hardened detective character, Thomas grinned as he dished, “Well, he’s definitely an a**hole.” If I have things my way, over the next few years, I’m going to be doing a lot more directing and a lot less acting. It’s been attracting some good people, like Jason Berman, and some terrific actors are interested in it. I’m very proud of the script that we’ve got. I’ve spent a long time perfecting the script and making it the best I can. I’ve been itching to get back behind the camera for a long time. It’s nice that we have a terrific producer on board, and it looks like we’ll get the money to shoot that, hopefully in the fall. We’ve got a great producer, named Jason Berman, who just sold the Nate Parker movie ( The Birth of a Nation) at Sundance for a record number. I wrote a Western a couple years ago, and I’ve been trying to get that off the ground for a couple years. Television is kind of restrictive in its directing, but it would be nice to get some chops doing TV. I do know that people tend to do their best work when they’re challenged and stimulated by their peers.Īre you looking to direct again, and would you ever consider taking on an episode of the show? I don’t know if that community will ever come back. The Actors Studio is still around, but it used to be a lot more vibrant and integral to theater and film in Hollywood. There used to be a community of professionals that would get together, work together and help each other. I’m not really sure what I’m going to do when she’s gone. I’ve been thinking about her lately, and there’s been a lot of love and outpouring for her. I was fortunate enough to find Penny when I first started getting roles in film, in Hollywood in the mid-‘90s. She’s been the coach to a lot of great actors, directors and writers, over the years. She’s one of the old school ‘70s, hardcore actors. She acted with Al Pacino in Dog Day Afternoon. She’s a member of the Actors Studio and is one of the old school actors. But if there’s anything consistent with the way that I approach a part, that would be a woman named Penny Allen, who has been my acting coach for over 20 years. I get bored, so I want to try different ways of getting inside something. With me, I don’t like to stick to one formula. JANE: Most actors have a process that they can go through, that they rely on, or that they’ve discovered, and that can evolve from project to project. Is your approach to creating and playing a character always the same, or does that vary with each thing you do? You’re all over the map with the types of roles that you do and the genres that you work in, and you do film and television. It’s a day-by-day thing, and sometimes an hour-by-hour thing. It’s not a movie-by-movie or a part-by-part basis. I like to imagine that all the choices you make during the day that you’re doing a particular scene are going to feed into the creation of that scene. It just depends on what you’re doing that day. Some days are more intense and quiet, and then other days, you feel more relaxed and are able to open up on set. JANE: That depends on the job and what’s required on the day. You just have to go with a good story and a script that you like and people that you like to work with. No matter how good a person can talk about what he wants, you never know. Great directors turn in mediocre work and first-time directors turn in exceptional work. With that said, first-time director or not, you never know what you’re going to get. Establishing what the vision is and being able to stick to it is the job, and everyone should be on the same page, going in. The director’s job is to establish what that is and make sure that everyone sticks to it when it comes down to actually executing it. JANE: Sharing the same vision for what’s on the page is always a good idea. I read it and said, “This could be fun with the right guy to act with.”ĭo you like to meet with your director before signing on, to make sure that you share the same vision for what’s on the page? JANE: When I read it, I knew that Laurence was reading it, but didn’t know if he was going to do it. When you read it, did you know that it would be Laurence Fishburne that you were working with, or did you want to find out who the other actor would be?
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