(Originally Posted on MySpace Channel, TV Blog)
Christian Kane is a multi-hyphenate. Actor. Singer. Songwriter. Performer. He portrays the bad boy Eliot Spencer on TNT’s hit show, ‘Leverage,” but what you may not know about Christian is that he’s also a talented singer-songwriter and his song, ‘Thinking of You,’ just made its debut on this past Sunday’s episode entitled, ‘The Studio Job.’

Kat Ahn: Hey Christian, how are you? So, you like being referred to as the B.A. Baracus of the show, or how do you feel about that?

Christian Kane: Good. Well, I took a lot of stuff from Mr. T when I got this role. You know this is a Jason Borne character, it really is, that’s who he was before. And in order for me to be part of the team, if I was Jason Borne, I’d just be sitting there and I’d just be taking everything in. I wouldn’t talk a lot, and I was like how am I going to make this guy you know stand out and be part of a team and be a force to reckon with? And I just took one of my all time heroes, which is you know – you know Mr. T, and I said, you know B.A. Baracus was always pissed off about everything, so I’m just going to make Eliot mad at anything. I mean – and it’s really what I’ve done. If you’ll notice if Hardison drops a fork or if (Beth) spills a glass, it just makes him so mad, he can’t even sit in his seat. And I really stole that from B.A. Baracus, so I have no problem with people telling me that. That’s a great compliment to have, because that’s kind of what I was going for.

Kat Ahn: So, you have a ton of fans on your MySpace page, and you obviously interact a lot with them. Tell us a bit more about your songwriting process. And what do you think sets you apart from all the – you know the other country singers are right now, like what is it that you bring to the table?

Christian Kane: Well, I get paid to be a liar, that’s what it is, I’m an actor. You know what I mean, and that’s just what it is. And you know there’s a lot of truth to what we do, but basically I’m playing a character, I’m not Eliot Spencer you know even though I bring a lot of me to the character, and I know this guy better than anyone. But you know I – that’s – it’s not real. And I think with song writing and songs, you have to be absolutely truthful, especially in country music and so I write about what I know. And I don’t think that there’s really anything that sets me apart, but what I do bring to the table is that you know growing up, spending 10 years of my – 12 – 10 years of my life on Los Angeles, we played country music, I had to be in Los Angeles, and so we played country music, and we played the (Viper) Room, that’s where we played, we played (Sunset), we were the only country band at the time in LA, and there was – that was our venue, the (Viper) Room. Now it’s a Saturday night, and we’re in between grunge and metal and heavy you know and hair bands, but we were playing country music. And so in a sense to not lose the crowd, we incorporated a little bit of rock, we came back to The Almond Brothers, we came back to Skynyrd. And in that sense, I believe I found my sound, and I like to incorporate a little bit more rock and roll than most country people do, and I come to find out that there is a fan base out there for that.

Kat Ahn: That is great; you’re staying true to who you are.

Christian Kane: That’s it.

Kat Ahn: Well, your track, ‘Thinking of You,’ is featured on the “Studio Job” episode of ‘Leverage,’ that’s pretty awesome.

Christian Kane: Oh, that’s just – it’s a blessing, it really is. And you know and I said before where the song comes out, I’ll be so interested to see how many people go and get that. Man, that’d be so much fun. And just – it’s still the same song, but its somewhat of a different version, and I just, you know, I’ve been on MySpace, those guys on MySpace, I’ve got the best fans in the world. I’ve got to be honest with you… they’ve been with me through thick and thin. They understand that sometimes I leave the music to go do – to go do an acting job, and no one’s really criticized me that hard for it yet, and I just – and I owe it all to them, I really do. You know I think that’s why “Leverage” is such a great show, just because we’ve got – we’ve got all these people that are following us, and it’s just – they’re die hard, man, and we couldn’t do it without them you know we wouldn’t exist without them.

Thanks for your time Christian and check out his latest single, ‘Thinking of You,” on his MySpace Page. And check out ‘Leverage,” on TNT on Wednesday nights at 9 pm ET.

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