The Lone STar
Holed up on his 3,000-acre spread in San Saba, 2015 Texas Film Awards honoree tommy lee jones
talks
The Homesman, Harvard,
and horses—not too bad for a reluctant legend
.
By David Hochman Photography by Rainer Hosch
H
e famously hates being interviewed, so why is
Tommy Lee Jones, who will be honored by the
Austin Film Society at the 15th annual Texas Film
Awards on March 12, talking so animatedly about
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs?
"Oh, it was my first adventure in show business, you see," he
says, and if you didn't know better, you might actually think
Jones was smiling. "I was playing Sneezy in an elementary school
pageant in Rotan.
We put on the play in a high school gym. A
reporter came all the way from Abilene to report on it. I took the
role very seriously."
Sneezy?
"Sneezy. It was a big deal for me," he recalls, "and I've been
devoted to being a good actor ever since."
96 AUSTINWAY.com
