I love and I miss him as well, believe me.įrom one Tom fan to another, do you often sit down and rewatch this music video? A gift that you get that you don’t see coming. One of those truly little just gleaming gems. You do tons of movies, you do tons of whatever you do in your work, and this was just one of those special moments. There’s so many requests I get any given year, most of which I say no to. I’m very happy to get on the phone with you and talk about this. I’ll start by saying you’re speaking with someone who owns two Tom Petty votive candles. “To be honest,” Basinger told Vulture during a recent phone call, “it was the hardest role I’ve ever played in my entire life.” An MTV Video Music Award for Best Male Video and nearly 30 years later, Basinger (or, perhaps more fittingly in this case, Mary Jane herself) was happy to reminisce about acting alongside Petty despite the two of them being “excruciatingly shy,” the specific scene where they couldn’t stop laughing, and what she thinks the narrative actually is. Long an admirer of his work, the actress said yes - to this day, her only one - before even knowing what the creative cadaver concept was. You can interpret it as you want, but yeah, it’s pretty bizarre.īasinger, who had already cemented herself as a leading lady of cinema in the years leading up to “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” was approached to star in the video at the request of Petty. Maybe they knew each other maybe they didn’t. Her corpse enjoys a last supper, a candlelit waltz, and a seaside stroll with Petty. It’s also, as fans can attest, paired with one hell of a head-scratcher of a music video, which stars Kim Basinger as a dead woman who … uh … gets into some sort of entanglement with Petty’s mortician character when she rolls up to the morgue. No, it’s not a Damn the Torpedoes or Southern Accents track, as much as the elder statesman of heartland rock makes “buy me a drink, sing me a song, take me as I come ‘cause I can’t! stay long!” sound like a timeless, romanticized ode to the rebels. It’s kind of easy to forget that “Mary Jane’s Last Dance,” recorded by Tom Petty and his Heartbreakers in 1993, ascended straight to the band’s Greatest Hits album when it was recorded earlier that year.
Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photo by Tom Petty/YouTube “To be honest, it was the hardest role I’ve ever played in my entire life.”
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