Beaumonster by Jesse Dayton

Author:Jesse Dayton [Dayton, Jesse]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2021-11-09T00:00:00+00:00

ROB ZOMBIE, CAPTAIN CLEGG, AND HALLOWEEN

My best friend in the whole world is a guy named Lew Temple. We came up together in a small scene of musician/theatre weirdos in Houston, and Lew went on to become a successful character actor. He has lived in Los Angeles for years now. Google “Lew Temple” and I guarantee you’ve seen him in a movie or TV show or something. It seems like he’s been in everything.

If I got thrown in jail in Bangkok or Juárez, I’d call Lew. A few years back, IMDb reported that he is one of the top working character actors in Hollywood. Lew’s story is pretty crazy. He started out as a Triple-A baseball player for the Seattle Mariners, and when he didn’t get picked up for the big show by the majors, he started working as a talent scout for the Houston Astros. My all-time favorite team. He was doing really well with the Astros (big salary, nice car, high-rise condo) when he called me one day out of nowhere and said, “Hey, JD, they’re shooting this new TV show outside of Dallas called Walker, Texas Ranger and Chuck Norris wants to put me in it. I think I might have to try this acting thing, brother!”

To be totally honest, I was completely against it. Not him being in a TV show, that was great, but just randomly switching careers seemed like a crazy move. After all, he was doing great with his career in pro baseball, and I tried to tell him how incredibly brutal the rejection could be in the acting game. But I was wrong. Lew went to the manager of the Astros and said, “I may never have another chance like this one ever come along again” and quit pro baseball. He then started doing theatre and studying acting and paid for it all by getting his ass kicked every other week as the bad guy on Walker, Texas Ranger. He attacked his acting parts with the same discipline he’d had playing baseball and was always carrying a book of Sam Shepard or Tennessee Williams plays around with him.

Our conversations changed from baseball to acting, and I gotta say, I was totally impressed with his focus and conviction, because I was doing the same thing with my music and saw a lot of folks who were all talk and no work. Lew, on the other hand, was always studying and working on his craft and blowing through his 10,000 hours (as Malcolm Gladwell calls it), performing in plays and going on auditions and taking classes. Since then he’s worked in films with Sean Penn, Denzel Washington, Benicio del Toro. And he’s done a whole bunch of TV shows, like his big role as Axel on the global phenomenon The Walking Dead.

Anyway, my ol’ friend Lew got one of his first great parts as Adam Banjo in Rob Zombie’s 2005 film The Devil’s Rejects. One night at a party in Hollywood with Rob, Marilyn

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