This is good stuff," says Zane, who filmed Barabbas in Tunisia last year and left two days before protesters overran the American embassy there in September.Ĭurrently, he's in negotiations to star in a Tim Rice musical version of From Here to Eternity in London's West End, playing the Burt Lancaster role. "He's bit of a brute and a thug on an existentialist journey to find reason and purpose and discover his divinity ultimately through being earthbound. Usually bald, Zane boasts an impressive mane as the "biblical rock star" spared from being crucified on the cross instead of Jesus Christ.
His title role in the four-part miniseries Barabbas for Reelz (premiering March 25 at 9 p.m. & amp amp amp lt !-iframe-& amp amp amp gt More recently though, Zane looks for emotional and complex fare to tap into, like The Kill Hole and another new film Electrick Children, in which he plays the Mormon dad of a girl who's convinced she's had an immaculate conception due to rock music and then heads to Las Vegas to find the voice on the tape that belongs to her "natural father." Zane, 47, has had a long and varied career since first appearing as Match, one of Biff's goons in Back to the Future (1985).įans remind him regularly of their favorite roles of his: Many remember him as the upper-crusty Cal Hockley in Titanic servicemen dug him in Sniper he still gets "a lot of love" for playing himself in Zoolander (he's hoping for a sequel) and the youngsters point out his title turn in The Phantom back in 1996, before superhero movies were cool. "It was heavy, it was joyful, it was a love of loss - it was opera on a very daily, accessible manner." "As empathetic creatures, we take on other people's sorrow," he says. The catharsis of satisfaction and relief was tempered by the burden that the veterans had themselves, still dealing with stuff that haunted them long after leaving the battlefield. The weight of the Kill Hole experience lingered with him after his work was done, according to Zane. I found it kind of odd myself, but I just came from logic, whether you were returning from war or not." "You cannot put all of that on them and expect them to be all of those things and waste that precious comfort that they may give. "When you burden your lover with the role of counselor, mother, friend and lover, you're going to lose them," Zane says.
One fundamental issue that kept coming up in the group was relationships with loved ones they came home from a tour of duty. "They were surprised by I guess the quality of the advice coming from a film actor, strangely," Zane says, laughing.
Zane calls it "one of the more significant experiences in my career," even though it simply was just a bunch of guys talking.Īs it turned out, he was pretty good at doling out help. "We free-formed it and everyone just came from the heart." "There was a scripted guide that we immediately disposed of when we realized that the unscripted stories and my improvisation in that space guiding the conversation and the session far exceeded the impact of what was planned," the actor explains. The majority of people Zane worked with during filming weren't even actors - they were real-life vets who spent the better part of eight hours talking with the group about their problems and Zane responding in turn. Samuel Drake, a former soldier who's come back home but is still haunted by his actions with his unit in the Middle East.Īlthough he finds himself connected to a sniper he's supposed to hunt down in the woods of Oregon, one of Drake's only real friends is Marshall (Zane), a man who runs a Portland group to help veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder and other concerns. In limited release Friday in New York City and March 22 in Portland and Los Angeles (and on DVD and iTunes April 9), the indie drama The Kill Hole stars Chadwick Boseman (of the upcoming 42) as Lt. Watch Video: Exclusive: 'The Kill Hole' clipįor an actor, Billy Zane found out he makes one heck of a group counselor.
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