“I’ve always said that the year that Ray ends up with a penis in his mouth is the last year of the show. And I’ve said it jokingly. The comment functions on a couple of different levels. There’s the idea that Ray is a very heterosexual, corn-fed, red-blooded American, so [as Ray] I’m not comfortable with the definitions of sex that are outside of the heterosexual man-on-top, female-on-the-bottom definition…. Hey, you grow up as an artist in a big city, as James Dean said, you’re going to have one arm tied behind your back if you don’t accept people’s sexual flavors. You know, when I was a kid out here in LA, I was homeless, I didn’t have any money and I was living in my car. I was 18. I wasn’t averse to going down to Santa Monica Boulevard and letting a guy buy me a sandwich. Know what I mean?” – actor Thomas Jane to the LA Times about Ray Drecker, the male prostitute character he plays on HBO’s Hung