Suffering Man's Interviews, Part 2
By Sarah Carlson
March 14, 2007
The warm Texas air was a welcome surprise for David Boreanaz during his first trip to Austin and SXSW last weekend -- that and the energy from the city and its festival. He flew to Austin without many expectations, but said he was pleased with SXSW and felt it and the unique Austin atmosphere provided a perfect place to debut his latest film, “Suffering Man’s Charity.”
To call Austin unique is one thing, but to call “Charity” unique is an understatement in Boreanaz’s eyes.
“It’s the type of film that you really experience,” he said. “It’s like a ride.”
Even now he’s still processing the film and his experience making it. His quick 18-day shoot was interwoven into his “Bones” shooting schedule, his TV show on Fox that was just picked up for a third season. He said he was attracted to play his character, Sebastian, because of his dual nature and wicked sense of humor -- “He’s a walking contradiction.”
Sebastian is a small-time hustler posing as a writer who’s taken in by Jonathan (Alan Cumming, in his directorial debut as well), a music teacher with a fondness for taking in handsome but unemployed artists. He financially supports Sebastian -- while also admiring his good looks -- believing Sebastian’s lies about the unpublished manuscript he’s supposedly hiding. Ultimately, Jonathan discovers Sebastian’s true, womanizing nature, sets out to teach him a lesson and, in doing so, discovers the real subject of Sebastian’s book: him.
The antics only get kookier as each man tries to turn the tables against the other, and the film’s eccentricities are what had Boreanaz scratching his head so long after filming. Now he hopes audiences will be as intrigued with the subject matter as he is, and that perhaps it will gain its own cult following.
“It was definitely fun, but it was … I don’t really know what it was,” Boreanaz said about the film. “I think it was really this crazy, cool, fun project to be a part of for an intense time.”
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