- Title: USA: Stars of the HBO Show "Hung" come out for the premiere of the new season
- Date: 24th June 2010
- Summary: LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES (JUNE 23, 2010) (REUTERS) (*** FLASH PHOTOGRAPHY ***) "HUNG" PREMIERE SIGN ZOOMS OUT TO PRODUCERS ON RED CARPET TALKING TO PRESS JANE ADAMS, THOMAS JANE, REBECCA CRESKOFF TALKING TO PRESS TILTS UP TO ANNE HECHE. SHOT OF CAMERAS PRESS M/S JANE ADAMS ON RED CARPET M/S REBECCA CRESKOFF ON RED CARPET THOMAS JANE GREETING PRESS JOINED BY JANE ADAMS GREGG HENRY POSING FOR PHOTOS SIANOA SMIT-MCPHEE TALKING TO PRESS SOUNDBITE (English) THOMAS JANE, ACTOR, SAYING: "What the writers have given me is the opportunity to do is show what it takes to be a strong guy in a crazy world. You know, because not only am I learning how to be a more desirable man to women. I am also forced to answer why I should be a strong, more confident man for myself." SOUNDBITE (English) JANE ADAMS SAYING: "She's fighting for her sense of the way things should be. That the way business is supposed to work, or just the way the world is supposed to work if you have an idea and you talk to someone about it, you're going to do something. Why does it become so complicated? And things happen that you might not necessarily want to have happen." SOUNDBITE (English) SIANOA SMIT-MCPHEE SAYING: "I don't know if it's what people, the writers are pushing the message to be, I just think it's just that the economy is so down people are going to do what they have to do. Ray does what he has to do to get money. Jessica's realizing that she has been living this high lifestyle the whole time. And, she, they can't afford it anymore so, a lot of people are having to cut back." SOUNDBITE (English) REBECCA CRESKOFF SAYING: "It's much deeper than I would imagine it to be because it's a comedy but it actually goes deep. And there's a lot of heart in it. There's lot of soul. And it really is about family, and love, and surviving in a tough time. And friendship and truth. And they, the writers, always take the stakes really high with the show and i think that makes it, I think, more interesting." CLOSE UP OF "HUNG" SIGN ZOOMS OUT TO THOMAS JANE AND JANE ADAMS TALKING TO PRESS VARIOUS
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- Story Text: Thomas Jane, Anne Heche and the stars of the HBO series "Hung" hit the red carpet for the premiere of season two. "Hung" follows Ray Drecker, played by Thomas Jane, a high school basketball coach who falls on hard times and becomes a male escort to make extra money.
"What the writers have given me is the opportunity to do is show what it takes to be a strong guy in a crazy world. You know, because not only am I learning how to be a more desirable man to women. I am also forced to answer why I should be a strong, more confident man for myself," said Thomas Jane.
The show is shot and based in Michigan and deals with real world issues like personal finances and struggling to makemeet in a down economy.
"I don't know if it's what people, the writers, are pushing the message to be, I just think it's just that the economy is so down people are going to do what they have to do. Ray does what he has to do to get money. Jessica's realizing that she has been living this high lifestyle the whole time. And, she, they can't afford it anymore so, a lot of people are having to cut back," said Sianoa Smit-McPhee, who plays Darby Drecker.
Rebecca Creskoff who plays at the Lenore Bernard says the show relates because of it's subject matter, ""It's much deeper than I would imagined it to be because it's a comedy but it actually goes deep. And there's a lot of heart in it. There's lot of soul. And it really is about family, and love, and surviving in a tough time. And friendship and truth. And they, the writers, always take the stakes really high with the show and i think that makes it, I think, more interesting."
Season two premieres on HBO Sunday June 27, 2010. - Copyright Holder: REUTERS
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