It’s like, if you’re going to sign on to do that part, you know what you’re getting into. Was it hard to get him to talk gleefully about taking a man in his mouth over and over again? I got to direct him when he established the character. Sure, Rob and I became friends doing the show. Rob Lowe’s performance as the out-of-control actor Eddie Nero made for one of the series’ most memorable guest appearances. One of the phrases Tom wrote that I loved was when Hank told Charlie that when he’s naked, “You look like a big, sexy baby.” I love that line. To me there’s early Handler and late Handler, and I love ’em both. Well, you know Evan lost a lot of weight one year, and he showed up in really good shape. It’s an interesting, inconsistent combination of traits for a father.Īt what point did you get used to seeing Evan Handler naked? He was very honest and very protective, a combination of very permissive and modern and old school. He doesn’t give up because to give up would be a lie. He believes it’s the best configuration of that family, to be with Karen and his daughter. Well it is crazy, but he’s fighting the good fight, and I think he believes that. Karen always rejected Hank’s marriage proposals. “Retarded man-child.” Hank is a character who’s very articulate and clever. What is your favorite turn-of-phrase to come from the show? Then I just started saying it all the time. That’s me. I can’t remember why we did that the first time, but it just made us laugh. Whose idea was it for Hank to say “motherfucker” in a falsetto like that in the first place? I didn’t know that they were going to like that so much. Similarly, I’m always surprised when people say, “ motherfucker!” to me on the street. I can’t remember thinking, “Wow, this is going to be an iconic moment,” but then it became that. That was in the pilot and it’s been so long I don’t remember. Speaking of Mia, how many times did she punch you for the first season’s “fucking and punching” scene? I always liked the fact that he was a romantic and sentimental person, as well as being brutally honest. There were all these people out-Hanking Hank, and he eventually became the voice of reason. Charlie certainly went off a deep end and Pam character went crazy. He’s the wildest character in only the first season. Is that what you found appealing about the role? Hank is not the 40-year-old virgin.Ĭertainly not, but he is a bit of a screw-up. And when I say “adult situations,” I don’t mean sex I just mean adults trying to solve their problems rather than childish men trying to work through their problems. What attracted me to Californication was its hyper-articulate sense of verbal humor and adult situations. I wouldn’t find myself believable in a world that Ben might do or Carell might do. At the time that I wanted to do a comedy, it seemed like most were underdog comedies, like ones with Ben Stiller, Steve Carell and Will Ferrell. But people weren’t looking at me that way because that show was perceived as dark and kind of brutal, even though it always had funny moments. Why did you want to play Hank Moody in the first place?Īfter The X-Files, I wanted to do a comedy. “It’s too bad, because I think that people may have missed a really good show underneath all that mountain of T&A.”īefore the actor moves on to his starring role in Aquarius, a drama in which he’ll play a hard-nosed cop on the hunt for Charles Manson, Rolling Stone caught up with the actor and conducted an exit interview to find out just how he left Hank Moody…and how Hank Moody left him. “The T&A on the show seemed to be the thing people hung their hat on, but I went to work trying to do really good comedy,” Duchovny says, looking back. But thanks to wickedly funny plots, conceived by creator and former Dawson’s Creek writer Tom Kapinos, Moody has emerged from those life situations – as well as any number of oversexed incidents, involving everything from “accidental cunnilingus” to “fucking and punching,” with a “mangina” thrown in for good measure – with a quasi–happy ending, no nudity necessary. Inside ‘Californication’ and ‘Louie’ Actress Pamela Adlon’s NSFW Worldįrom his evolution as a well-intentioned screw-up, unwittingly entwined in an affair with a 16-year-old as he tried to win over his baby-mama Karen in Season One, to (spoiler) navigating a relationship with the adult son he never knew he had in the final go-around, Moody endured the sorts of things that might crush most men. And finally, David Duchovny’s character – the Bukowskian author Hank Moody, who took part in hilarious Dionysian fetes that would’ve made even Fellini wince – has gotten the bittersweet ending he deserved. The sun set on Californication last night, after seven years of drug orgies and actual orgies.
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