Lane Janger.The director-star of Just One Time gets in touch with his feminine side He's the year 2000 answer to Orson Welles: Lane Janger not only stars in the droll droll adj. droll·er, droll·est Amusingly odd or whimsically comical. n. Archaic A buffoon. [French drôle, buffoon, droll, from Old French drolle new pansexual pan·sex·u·al adj. Relating to, having, or open to sexual activity of many kinds. n. A pansexual person. pan comedy Just One Time, he also directed and coproduced it and cowrote the script. Developed from a short film of the same name, Janger's film focuses on straight, macho fireman Anthony (Janger), who pressures his fiancee to fulfill his fantasy that she have sex with another woman "just one time." She agrees--but only if he'll sleep with another man. Enter an exuberant gay youth (Guillermo Diaz Guillermo Diaz may refer to:
Esposito was born in Brooklyn, New York of Italian descent. She made her first appearance in Law & Order in 1996, but she is best known as Stacey in the prime time hit ), evidently ready to pair off with the straight lovers as needed as needed prn. See prn order. . The film is set in New York City New York City: see New York, city. New York City City (pop., 2000: 8,008,278), southeastern New York, at the mouth of the Hudson River. The largest city in the U.S. , where the Los Angeles-raised Janger has lived for the past 12 years. An indie film veteran, he produced the award-winning indie I Like It Like That (1994) and the gay bonbon I Think I Do (1997). His next production will be the twins he and his partner are expecting this fall, via a surrogate mother surrogate mother, a woman who agrees, usually by contract and for a fee, to bear a child for a couple who are childless because the wife is infertile or physically incapable of carrying a developing fetus. . 1 How did you relate to the selfish side of your character, Anthony? Everyone has a fantasy, and some people don't openly talk to their lovers about it. I don't think Anthony is selfish, just honest about his fantasy. 2 Did your own experiences inspire the film? Well, I hear a lot of my female friends say their boyfriends ask about three-ways. So I always say, "Ask them to do it too." I like the idea of a homophobic guy having to experience how it feels. 3 Would you ever ask your lover to do something that you wouldn't do? I wouldn't ask if it were hurtful hurt·ful adj. Causing injury or suffering; damaging. hurt  ful·ly adv.hurt [laughs]. But I can't think of anything I wouldn't do. I'd do anything if it were for someone I love. I would run around naked in New York City. 4 Anthony is concerned his masculinity will be questioned if he sleeps with another guy. What would make you question your own? There are moments when every guy's concerned about being too feminine. I'm taking a movement class where I have to wear tights and ballet slippers. Knowing people are going to see me in them doesn't quite fit my self-image. I think I question little things--like clothing. 5 How have straight audiences received the film? Straight audiences love it. Straight guys think it's funny 'cause they've seen their friends go through the same thing. I was nervous that women might not appreciate a gay man writing about them, but both straight women and lesbians love the film because it shows a woman getting even. Kinser also writes for the Spanish film magazine Dirigido. |
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