Boonetown: The Life and Times of Mark Boone Junior

On this episode of FIVE DOLLAR BUZZ, the Buzzards mix it up with legendary character actor Mark Boone Junior, or just "Boone" as he prefers to be called.

 

Boone's had a weird and storied career, from his improvisational cabaret beginnings with Steve Buscemi to early No Wave work with underground directors like Eric Mitchell (THE WAY IT IS OR EURYDICE IN THE AVENUES, UNDERGROUND, U.S.A.) and Lizzie Borden (BORN IN FLAMES) to indie darlings like LAST EXIT TO BROOKLYN, SLAVES OF NEW YORK, Buscemi's masterpiece TREES LOUNGE (among several films that Buscemi directed), and PETE SMALLS IS DEAD. 

 

Hollywood came a-callin' and he caught a big role in Sam Raimi's western THE QUICK AND THE DEAD, did two for David Fincher, SEVEN and THE GAME, two for Christopher Nolan, MEMENTO and BATMAN BEGINS.  He was in ROSEWOOD, THE THIN RED LINE, GET CARTER, 2 FAST 2 FURIOUS, 30 DAYS OF NIGHT, FROZEN RIVER and so many more.

 

He has also been in quite a bit of television. The list includes "The Equalizer," "Law & Order," "Quantum Leap," "Seinfeld," "Curb Your Enthusiasm," "Flaked," "The Last Man on Earth" and recently in "The Mandalorian."

 

The list goes on.  However, it is his role as Bobby Munson on "Sons of Anarchy" for the full seven seasons that has gotten him the most recognition. The blessing and the curse of a high profile television show is brought to bear.

 

We get the full monty on our man Boone, from his childhood and time playing collegiate and professional soccer to the early beginnings in NYC with Buscemi and their experience with Martin Scorsese, Peter Gabriel, Roseanna Arquette and Nick Nolte on the film NEW YORK STORIES to the Fincher/Nolan days to "SOA" to now. 

 

Boone is great fun to talk with and he is both reverential and candid in equal measure. So pull up a chair, have an oat soda, and listen to Boone wax on about a life in showbusiness, no matter how reluctant he may be about defining himself as such.

 

We are in Boonetown: population: 1.

 

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