PASADENA, Calif. -- One reporter asked why in HBO's "Hung," about a well-endowed, middle-aged sad sack-turned-gigolo (Thomas Jane), viewers never see Ray's, ahem, manhood.
"It's just so big and beautiful, it would blow your mind," said actress Jane Adams, who plays Ray's pimp.
"We think of it as Plato's penis on a certain level," said creator Colette Burson, explaining that to show it would ruin the mystique because it might be too big for some viewers, too small for others. "We sort of think it's perfect for everybody who comes in contact with it."
Burson said some actors auditioning to play Ray would come into the room and sit down with their legs spread wide.
"It was definitely a little freaky," she said of how some actors approached the part.
Someone asked a good non-manhood question about the casting of Ray's kids, who look nothing like Ray or their mother (Anne Heche).
"Why does everybody pick on the kids?" Burson said. "First of all, I think they are beautiful. ... We wanted kids that were real to us."
But the question isn't about their looks on a general level, it's about how they look in relation to their parents. I like that the kids are real, I just don't buy them as the children of Jane and Heche. Jane defended the casting, saying something about finding cast members who align "spiritually," which is a bunch of baloney from where most viewers sit.
And then we returned to double entendres about how the show might give Jane a "bigger career" or "extend" his career as Adams noted a reporter was asking his question into a microphone, which by its nature, is phallic-shaped.
Posted
Jul 30 2009, 07:13 PM
by
Rob Owen