LUNCH WITH TOMMY LEE
Issue of 2006-01-09
Posted 2006-01-02
Tommy Lee Jones, actor, producer, and first-time big-screen director, was having lunch the other day at The Players club, in Gramercy Park. Jones appears in his new movie, “The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada,” as a gray-bearded, sun-fried Texas rancher named Pete. He wears scuffed boots and dirty jeans. He speaks Spanish as well as English. He plays the loyal friend of an illegal Mexican immigrant who is mysteriously murdered. Now out of character, Jones, clad in dark Prada and Hermès, looked clean-shaven and barbered. He chose to sit downstairs, in the Grill Room, near an old pool table and a huge fireplace.
Jones pressed his large hands flat against his cheekbones. “It’s been a rough six weeks, travelling with the film. We’ve been to France, Toronto, and Morelia, in Mexico. In Japan, I took three days for myself, to go to
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