Had it not been for his breakthrough performance as high school math teacher Jaime Escalante in the Stand & Deliver, Zane would have never made it into the latino music scene, an industry he single handedly created.
Best friend, Randy Newman says, Zane was a “powerful force of musicical inspiration”. His first single “Boner Storm” made a huge splash on the charts in 1992, and even won him a Grammy.
In the special edition of 1999’s The Mummy, Zane shed some light on most of his career, as well as his role as the the High Priest Imhotep
“So what? Yeah I played a Mummy; yeah I was Charles Bronson’s understudy in Death Wish, big deal, because you know what, I’m fucking Billy Zane, so if I want to get weird and cut a Ceasar for a shit TV movie, I fucking will.”
