'Hung' star Thomas Jane: 'I lie about my age to get acting jobs'

Thomas Jane has said that he is still a "viable" actor even though he is 40 years old.

The Hung star insisted that he is expected to pretend that he is younger than he is in order to get jobs.

"There's no socially acceptable middle age," Jane told The Huffington Post. "We have to lie about our age to get jobs, we have to dress the way we did in our 20s, with blue jeans and a T-shirt and f**king tennis shoes.

"Really? I'm 40 years old and still wearing the same goddamn uniform that I wore in my 20s? So what's the new uniform - a suit?

"Well, OK, everyone wears a f**king suit. With that, you're just a suit, you're a zombie, there's no self-expression. There's no individuality within that. So it's either blend in and become a zombie, or revert to your 20s. We got nothing."

In October, Jane confessed that he had sex with men for money as a teenager, insisting he has no regrets about the experience as it taught him a lot about life.

Jane split from former wife Patricia Arquette in August 2010 after four years of marriage.

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