Leverage Star Goes Country
Christian Kane
When he's not bending the rules as the Leverage team's resident enforcer Eliot Spencer, Christian Kane can often be found bending guitar strings in honky-tonks around the country. The Texas-born and Oklahoma-raised Kane does double duty as an aspiring country singer. "I like my country with a little more gasoline," he says of the fiery country-rock sound heard on his debut CD, The House Rules, out December 7. "My way of looking at country music is [similar to] Garth Brooks. He put something fun and new back into a genre that was letting a little rigor mortis set in."
Sort of what Leverage did to the tired TV-crime genre, mixing light comedy and dark drama. Sunday's episode, a Christmas tale, relies on the former, while next week's two-hour season finale — introducing ER's Goran Visnjic as villain Damien Moreau — is decidedly gloomy, Kane says. "There is nothing comedic about what's getting ready to happen," he warns, offering some ominous foreshadowing. "You're going to find out a lot more than you wanted to about Eliot. He may not be the sweetheart everybody thinks he is."
Leverage airs Sunday at 9/8c on TNT.
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