Jessica Lange & Ed Harris Wrap New Movie Version Of ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’

I said this in the other thread but I'll say it here too that Jessica will win her 3rd Oscar for this. Meryl won't be that special now especially if Cate wins this year for Tar.

R1 From your lips (or fingertips) to God’s ears.

Also, I love that they’ve been reunited in something substantial after nearly 40 years. 🥹

R2 I'm really glad that Ed Harris is being cast in this too since they were great together in Sweet Dreams. A winning combo.

Mary Tyrone is supposed to be 54 years old. Jessica Lange is 73 years old with bad plastic surgery. I can already see her performance in my head....breathy voice, looking off to the side a lot. Same bag of tricks we've seen since Frances.

Is Meryl going to add this to her list of three roles that she wanted but lost out on? She hasn't done a good movie in years.

R4 Lange dabbled in Botox and fillers for awhile—to a disturbing degree—which she has since stopped; she never had surgery. She looks like a sacred ruin now, all natural lines and grooves with her distinct beauty still evident.

As for the quality of her performance, it’ll be exquisite. She can do very subtle (Tootsie, Men Don’t Leave) to explosive (Frances, Blue Sky) and everything else in between (Music Box, Titus, Grey Gardens, AHS).

Her Tony Award, Olivier nomination (she was the first American actress nominated for one), along with her various additional accolades for this role, speak for themselves.

She’s coming for Oscar #3, Matthew, and you’re gonna fry and I’m gonna watch you sizzle.

I don't understand. They're all white. Is that allowed?

If you can watch clips like this and think Lange has had surgery, there’s something wrong with you.

[quote] under-the-radar screen adaptation

What does this mean?

Why do her eyes slant up? Maybe cheek fillers. But her eyes weren't that way 30 years ago.

This movie celebrates alcoholism so it was filmed at Ardmore.

Mary Tyrone does NOT have a circular stain on their left wrist.

[quote]r4 Mary Tyrone is supposed to be 54 years old. Jessica Lange is 73 years old

Well, spoiler alert, but she’s playing a drug addict.

I'm glad they found the money to complete production. Unfortunately, her new movie with Neil Jordan , "Marlowe," is getting tepid advance reviews.

[quote]Well, spoiler alert, but she’s playing a drug addict.

It's not like she's been turning tricks in a crack house for ten years. Hepburn played the part when she was 50 and should have won an Oscar for that instead of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.

[quote] She’s coming for Oscar #3, Matthew, and you’re gonna fry and I’m gonna watch you sizzle.

Who is Matthew?

A Juggernaut of Monumental Talent, Impressive, most Impressive... Love Jessica, Love Ed...

[quote]R15 It's not like she's been turning tricks in a crack house for ten years.

Mary Tyrone lived in a pre-moisturized age.

Apparently, playwright David Lindsay-Abaire, who penned Rabbit Hole and later adapted it for the screen, wrote the screenplay for this film adaptation. I hope his modifications are centered primarily on setting changes and leave O’Neill’s text, i.e., dialogue, intact. The previous film adaptations of plays Lange has starred in—Cat On a Hot Tin Roof and A Streetcar Named Desire—were smart enough to do this and benefitted greatly from doing so.

I want all three to four fucking hours of this glorious tragedy on screen.

Why this unnecessary remake?

The original version has FOUR interesting stars carefully filmed by a clever director on location in the original house.

The Olivier version had two interesting stars in a studio.

This unnecessary remake has no interesting stars in a studio in Ireland of all places.

R14 The film has been reviewed 3-4 times, with the reviews ranging from a pan to a glowing one. Lange has received good notices in most of them. The latest review, which pans the film, singles her out as the most interesting thing about the pic.

“Only once in a while do you get a scene that pops. Lange makes the most of her older woman struggling to stay relevant. She’s someone who has lived by her wits for a long time, pretending to be who she is not. At one point, Marlowe looks at her, and says, “you’re a long way from Tipperary.” Yes, she is, and at one point, when the camera pauses at her face, naked, vulnerable, it’s a moment.”

R20 The original adaptation is one of my favorite films and deserves more love than it gets. Hepburn gives perhaps her best performance, for which she undoubtedly deserved the Oscar. That said, your assertion that Lange and Harris aren’t “interesting,” and your insinuation that they aren’t capable of bringing new, electrifying shades to these roles is puzzling at best and simply retarded at worst.

Also, I wouldn’t count out Foster or Morgan, who have both proven themselves more than capable on the big and small screens and in theatre.

O'Neill takes four hours to celebrates Irish alcoholism and Irish iineffectual futility.

It becomes tedious after the first hour.

O'Neill inserted two intervals which allowed bored audience members to discreetly escape.

[quote]The original version has FOUR interesting stars carefully filmed by a clever director on location in the original house.

Lumet filmed it at the Chelsea Studios in Manhattan, with exteriors filmed on City Island in the Bronx. The O'Neills' Montecristo Cottage is in New London.

Oh Lange Loon, I thought you were dead. Jessica won’t even be nominated. It’s a filmed version of the play.

[quote] Foster or Morgan

Are they English or Irish?

I'm assuming this dirge has been financed by the Irish Government.

R25 The “Lange Loon” is the little swathe of nothing that diddles itself as it fervently tries to convince DLers of how awful Lange is. It goes by Erna and Matthew, amongst other monikers. It is, shall we say, compromised on many fronts.

R26 Foster was born in Boston, and Morgan in the U.K.

Lange is definitely long in the tooth for this, but onstage - where she was wonderful - you can get away with that. But it might not matter that much given that Mary is an addict.

However, I have a hard time seeing Ed Harris as James Tyrone, who is a barnstorming theatrical matinee idol along the lines of Booth. Harris is just not that kind of actor - both Olivier and Ralph Richardson (and, I'm sure, Frederic March in the original Broadway production) certainly are that kind of actor. I remember seeing Jack Lemmon do the part as well and boy, was he miscast.

Foster and Morgan should be fine, though we may wind up with a potpourri of accents.

Are Foster and Morgan age-appropriate?

Aren't they supposed to be going through adolescent turmoil?

Mary Tyrone was fertile into her fifties?

Ed Harris was super fucking sexy in Sweet Dreams. He turned 72 yesterday.

[quote] Eugene O’Neill wrote “Abortion”

[quote] it’s not a production I can recommend

[quote] Ed Harris was super fucking sexy in Sweet Dreams.

"Super sexy" four decades ago.

James O'Neill was super fucking sexy too.

Yes, R34, and Eugene O'Neill was moderately attractive too.

But he wrote overlong FOUR-ACT plays which are LONGER and more tedious than George Bernard Shaw's plays.

Old people wasting money

[quote] Ed Harris was super fucking sexy in Sweet Dreams

Beware.

Don't look at his picture here. He looks like 'Riff Raff' in Rocky Horror.

R29 As I wrote in another thread, I think the characters being older underscores the family’s dysfunction. Also:

[Quote]Those of you discounting Lange and Harris for being too old for their parts are overlooking the immediacy and relevancy with which their senescence will imbue O’Neill’s already timely and poignant rumination on the vagaries of life and addiction.

Lange and Harris, both in their early 70s, will come across as if they’re in their mid to late 60s. Foster is 42 and will come across as a bit older, while Morgan’s appearance is a crapshoot, i.e., with his mutable looks, I can see him evoking an Edmund in his 30s OR 40s. In either case, the Tyrone’s each being depicted a decade or more older than they should be compounds their pitiful qualities and the overall tragedy of the story.

Whatever the end result, I know every single one of you bitches will line up to see this, either as parasocial admirers looking for a vicarious fix or small, individual packs of hyenas gleefully ready to tear it down. I, for one, will be sporting my best head scarf, caftan, heels, and sunglasses, and reveling in Ms. Lange’s brilliance and, by turns, explosive and defeated reveries.

I don't see the age problem.

Neither of the actors playing the sons looks especially young young.

R40 Foster clocks early 50s, easy.

R33 I said "in Sweet Dreams."

I know quite well when it was filmed.

I've seen the photos from the shoot. He indeed looks his age.

So the two Tyrone sons who are in their 40s are still living their parents?

Why? Are they hopeless alcoholic failures as well?

They needed a Ben PLATT not a Ben Foster for a truly youthful Jamie.

R43 You can certainly view them as that. Suddenly, Edmund becomes a middle-aged man for which escape is too late.

the bastards played her off when she won the Tony.

R46 The applause and reactions she received were rapturous, though. I loved seeing Chita Rivera behind her, enthusiastically smiling and clapping away. Incidentally, they both had long, deep histories and friendships with Fosse.

Barf

No, R43, just Millennials.

It's reimagined, like when Hamlet wears hot pants and trainers.

Who is Jonathan Kent?

Does he do freaky stuff? I suppose we should be thankful that Edmund Tyrone isn't being played by Gugu Mbatha-Raw.

Bad wigs

The father is as bald as a coot.

Don't look at the picture in R37.

[quote]r20 Why this unnecessary remake? The original version has FOUR interesting stars carefully filmed by a clever director on location in the original house.

It’s in black and white.

Not the most uplifting play ever written

For these two actors the title should be Long Days Journey Into MUMMIFICATION

R50 He directed the 2016 Broadway production of this play, which earned 7 Tony Award nominations—that most nominated play that season—along with earning Lang the Tony for Lead Actress in a Play. In 2019, he directed Maggie Smith in a London production of Christopher Hampton's solo show A German Life, a film adaptation of which he is also set to direct, starring Smith.

Kent is an English theatre director and opera director. He is known as a director/producer alongside Ian McDiarmid at the Almeida Theatre from 1990 to 2002.

He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) by Queen Elizabeth II in February 2016 for his services to the performing arts.

The ageism exhibited my some of you withered cunts is pitifully telling…

Ed I HAVE NO Harris

Did Jessica get another facelift? Her jawline and neck cords look like they are about to snap.

This seems like a vanity production. Besides the Lange Loon, who is the audience for it?

This is Lange, looking refreshingly haggard and very much her age, at the Chicago Humanities Festival earlier this month. Mind you, she was in the middle of filming this adaptation, but took a short break to attend the festival, which she had already committed to last year.

R60- Refreshingly Haggard

LOL 😂 !

[ R10 ] When the eyes of an older actress slant up it could be that the make-up artist has done a faux facelift by pulling the facial skin up toward the hairline with tape and what not and hiding it under the hair. I have a friend who is a make up artist . I didn't pay too much attention when she was explaining the procedure but she did mention it having been done on several actresses, Lange included. Whatever works.

Those of you that are threatened by the brutality of time and the harshness of age need to do some serious soul-searching. Ms. Lange, as evidenced by her deeply and heavily lined and sagging face has certainly done so. And I fucking love her for it.

Random Trivia For Perspective: Lange at 73, is now one year (or so) younger than Katharine Hepburn was during the filming of "On Golden Pond". Harris is 72, which is three years younger than Henry Fonda was at the time.

People seemed to age differently back then, and they both had their share of health problems, but Hepburn & Fonda seemed so much older at the time.

Please R63 can you translate that from the Catholic language into normal language?

R61 It’s true! 😂 I love that she finally said fuck it and gave up the Botox. She will always be beautiful to me, especially now that she’s finally comfortable with herself. 🥹

Scary!!!

R60- She not someone to LUST over anymore like she was back in 1982 in the movie Tootsie.

This Lange woman is 73.

Eugene O’Neill was a corpse at 73.

R68 But she still is someone to admire, and her innate allure—that je ne sais quoi quality she has always possessed—never fades. ☝🏻😌

Irish alcoholism? Huh? She’s a drug addict.

R71 James and Jamie are alcoholics.

Irish alcoholics? Where's Nathan Lane?

R62 Lange’s eyes are naturally almond-shaped and have always subtly slanted up at the corners.

R63- At least she hasn't gone the route of the women from Knots Landing with their FUNHOUSE faces.

She could totally play the head on the curtain in that Wizard of Oz remake!

She has a very rough look from many years of random surgery, drinking and smoking.

R77 “Many years of random surgery” don’t result in intact frown lines, myriad wrinkles, and sagging skin, honey. You may wish with all your blackened little heart that Lange had gone under the knife to fuel your derision of her but alas, she never did go that far.

Thank god.

Oh my Stars! Jessica Lange doesn't look exactly like she did 40 years ago?

HOW FUCKING DARE SHE BE HUMAN AND AGE?

And it takes courage, bitches—courage, humility, and a strong sense of self—to show up make-up free and wrinkle laden to a public event when you were once revered for your beauty. The fact that Lange is at a point in her life where she can do that without fear or regrets is not only inspiring but downright galvanizing. I can only imagine that those of you—or is it really only the same bloated and snaggle-toothed nutty Lange hater?—who deride her for doing so probably can’t bare to look at yourselves in the mirror for more than a fleeting second or two. ‘Tis sad and tragic when your own reflection haunts you…

What I really want to know is why does Susan Sarandon look exactly like she did 40 years ago?

At least she doesn't look like a belt sander had been used for her face work anymore, but she still looks like hell. She was terrible in Feud and even though she's done this play on Broadway, I'm not holding my breath.

From that photo of them, I thought they were remaking The Exorcist.. It looks dire.

This is “multiple years of surgery”…

For a moment, I thought this was current day Madonna.

This is nearly half a decade of surgery…

Courage from booze to show up looking like CRAP!!!

Oh Lange Loon, it’s so funny when you spiral out of control. 🤡❤️🤡

Shit sorry, wrong thread.

My god, Nicole and Faye look like men who have undergone an enormous amount of surgery to pose as women.

R81 because she’s half Italian.

Honestly , most of the people here are right - Lange is not 100 percent naturally aging (there are other celebrity examples of that), but someone who has had weird things pulled or injected (some gone bad) coupled with the natural aging. It’s a weird disconcerting combo compared to say, a Diane Keaton, who just looks old (but totally herself).

This four act play is exhausting.

William Hurt played the father and starting speaking lines from Act IV when the rest of the company was still in Act III.

He begged forgiveness afterwards saying that O'Neill's script is FULL of repetition.

The last two acts meander on for two hours unnecessarily.

Jessica is a weathered beauty.

Nicole Kidman's eyes look so weird and squinty

Something tells me that the Lange-hating Loon is a big fan of Kidman and Dunaway, which would explain its insistence that Lange has gone down the tragic surgeried path those two have…

The troll doth deflect too much.

Click, click, click.

She won't match my work.

I'm not a Faye fan but am I the only one who thinks she actually looks better in that pic than normal? Usually she comes across as downright simian.

R96 this isn't Meryl honey.

R98 And Meryl LOVES Jess. At the four-minute mark in the clip below:

[Quote]I swear to God, every job I've ever taken, about three weeks before I begin, I call up my agent and say, 'I don't think I can do this. I don't think I'm right for it. They should call up Jessica Lange.’

Meryl is such a big Lange fan.

Another clip:

[Quote]Nobody could do that better than [Lange]. I mean, it was divine.

On being inspired by Lange’s take on her wrinkles:

[Quote]I always loved what Jessica Lange said. She said, ‘See these? [gestures at her crows feet] I’ve earned these.’

Lange Loon, you repost those same 3 clips of Meryl all the time. You did it for years on IMDB as well before they banned you and shut down the forum. Are you okay? It seems like your nurse has missed a few check-ins.

Anyway, you can definitely still tell that Lange has had work done, it's the cat-eyed thing and the fact that the wrinkles aren't consistent (which is why you can see exactly where in her face she's had it done). But she mostly looks fine. It's not distracting to me at this point any more. I'm more concerned about her performance. She's gotten really samey in these dramatic, woman-untethered roles. The breathiness, fidgeting with her hands, head-shaking, and long blank vampy stares... in every season of AHS the character descriptions were so different and her performances were largely the same.

I'm a fan, I just want this to be good. She is very lucky to be getting to film this role, a lot of other stage vets are still waiting for their adaptation or missed out to Streep (Cherry Jones, Deanna Dunagan, Streisand w/ Gypsy, Faye w/ Masterclass, Close w/ Sunset Blvd). I actually saw Judy Davis do a reading and workshop of Mary Tyrone a few years ago at a drama school, just a few scenes, and she was *INCREDIBLE*. Obviously she hasn't got the profile of Jessica and would never be cast, but these big roles deserve that type of justice.

I hope this movie's success propels Glenn's Sunset Boulevard

The Lange Loon is so strange. It really strives to justify its disdain for Lange with such Ernest and in the most bizarre ways.

*earnest

P.S. At least Lange doesn’t look like a pumpkin (R85) or simian (R86).

[quote]Hepburn played the part when she was 50 and should have won an Oscar for that instead of Guess Who's Coming To Dinner.

Fun fact: Hepburn was beaten to the Long Day's Journey Oscar by Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker, who should in turn have won it for Mrs Robinson the year Hepburn won for GWCTD.

R5, Meryl never chooses good movies. Right from the start, she's chosen her films because they had parts she wanted to play. She's always had terrible choice in scripts in terms of the memorability of the movie as a whole. Some of them have turned out well, but you know, you do that many films and by the laws of probability one or two have to be good ones. There is no "Meryl Streep in All About Eve" moment. "The Devil Wears Prada" is the closest she's come to a film in which both the movie and her performance were widely esteemed or enjoyed.

We might getta sex scene or finally see Mary gettin’ ‘er opioid fix.

MGM is repping sales on the pic. Things are moving fast—the film has been in post barely a week— which means the powers that be know they have a hit.

R109, are the PTB trying to rush this out in time for Oscar contention? If so, Harris and Lange are going to have big hurdles, and their names are Brendan Fraser and Cate Blanchett.

R110 Chile, they’re not gonna finish post in a month, lol. This will be in contention next year.

I saw Jessica speak about her photography in Chicago on Saturday November 12th and she said she had come straight from Ireland and that shooting had wrapped. Wonder if this will be screened anywhere, or if we can look forward to it on Freevee at Christmastime.

It would be insane if they finished post by mid-December and dropped this in limited release Christmas week just to be eligible for the awards. I don’t see that happening, though.

However, it WILL be an awards player next year. You can bet your sweet tight AND saggy asses that!

R112 What did she say about Jerry Hall, then…?

The performances in the Hepburn film version are good, but this play has so many instances of people saying something terrible to somebody and the other person breaking down, and then the first person says, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't really mean that!"

It starts to become humorous after a certain point.

R115 HAHAHA! My mother said this same thing a few weeks back.

1) Nobody can or will ever beat Hepburn in Long Day's Journey and I don't understand those actresses who keep trying.

2) Mother nature is one cruel motherfucker to give Lange the kind of wrinkles that makes her look so mean.

R117 - I think I agree with you but I'll be interested to see how Lange does.

R117

1) Hepburn really is that good in it, isn’t she? No matter; Lange is going to do wonders with the role.

2) She’s lived a hard life filled with sorrow, depression, and alcoholism. I love her wrinkles. 🥹

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^^ DM video

Ugh. DM video in response to R114.

r119 I will watch Lange's take on it for sure, but this is Hepburn's masterpiece.

[quote] She’s lived a hard life filled with sorrow, depression, and alcoholism.

True.. I would have much preffered sad wrinkles as opposed to mean wrinkles. She doesn't deserve that look.

R122 Why did you make it easy on that bitch at R112? I’ve already seen the clip you posted and had the one from Chicago ready!

It’s the last clip below.

R123 The thing is, when you see her in motion, the wrinkles imbue her with a dangerous, though still fragile, gravitas.

R114 She actually spoke about Jerry Hall, saying she was friends and roommates with Grace Jones and they had wild times together, but she doesn't know how the rumors got started that involved Jerry because she only met her in passing. She kept her comments short and polite but called her "Mrs. Rupert Murdoch" with a roll of her eyes, which said it all.

Is Colin Morgan naked? I LOVE me some pale Englishmen with black hair!!

Does he get fucked hard, YUMMY!!

Oh Lange Loon. This will never be in “awards contention.” Never change, keep dreaming!!! 🙏

R126 Thank you for recounting what’s already been posted in clips above your reply.

R128 If you say so, dear.

[quote] but this play has so many instances of people saying something terrible … and then the first person says, "Oh, I'm so sorry, I didn't really mean that!"…It starts to become humorous after a certain point.

R115 O'Neill is lousy scriptwriter. The script needs to be cut in half. R92

[quote]I hope this movie's success propels Glenn's Sunset Boulevard

Into what?

[quote] You can bet your sweet tight AND saggy asses that!

Well, one out of three isn't SO bad.

R131 into a feature film of course

Did Colin Morgan ever come out?

[quote]r80 And it takes courage, bitches—courage, humility, and a strong sense of self—to show up make-up free and wrinkle laden to a public event when you were once revered for your beauty… Tis sad and tragic when your own reflection haunts you.

Isn’t that a speech from the play?

[quote]R97 I'm not a Faye fan but am I the only one who thinks she actually looks better in that pic @ r86 than normal?

I agree. She just needs a better lipstick.

Mulberry or deep mauve, perhaps.

[quote]R103 I hope this movie's success propels Glenn's Sunset Boulevard

Jebus, I don’t!

R115, those repetitive cycles are a theme of the play; they're meant to be there. I agree with you though, that it becomes a drag after a while.

[quote] those repetitive cycles are a theme of the play; they're meant to be there

Are you suggesting that O'Neill wants the audience to feel as bored, angry and stifled as the Tyrone family?

'The Iceman Cometh' is worse.

It's 3 hours and 59 minutes of talk, talk and talk.

This will go straight to streaming.

Movies about talking heads belong on TV.

[quote]Nobody can or will ever beat Hepburn in Long Day's Journey and I don't understand those actresses who keep trying.

Many years ago there was a proposal to do it on stage in Sydney with Geoffrey Rush and Judy Davis. It didn't happen, but I'd have loved to see what they, and in particular she, could do with it.

Jessica should do Mourning Becomes Electra as well. Somebody deserves an Oscar for that play if Roz couldn't get it

I love how all the DL laureates criticize O'Neill's writing.

^. It's very easy to criticize O'Neill's writing.

Just like it's easy to criticize George Bernard Shaw's writing. They belong to different century.

Wasn't Lange supposed to retire a couple of years ago?

R147 I love my girl, but she’s been retiring since the 1980s, lol. She’s said as much, too.

"But Lange can never resist a pyrotechnical display of emotion for its own sake. In her big scene with Howard, where she tells him off, Lange is so chaotic and over the top, laughing, howling, sneering, and weeping all at once, that Wenders keeps cutting away from her, as if he’s embarrassed. The film, which had steadily improved with her first appearance, never recovers."

Of course he was embarrassed.

She’s fantastic in the scene that “film reviewer” chastises her for. All of her real-life pain and fury at Shepard unravels in a glorious display of pathos. And contrary to what they say, Wenders remains on her. The only thing worthy of criticism here, is the Botox. Then again, she doesn’t look nearly as bad as Kidman does in Rabbit Hole, though Kidman was fantastic in that, too..

Can someone clarify for me - is the Lange Loon all like Lange can't do anything right or Lange can't do anything wrong?

R152 The Lange Loon hates Lange and definitely promulgated that “Lange can't do anything right.” It’s a BIG Kidman fan, too, which explains a lot.

*promulgates

[quote]EVA MARIE SAINT: Jessica I think is incredible in the film, all the different layers of emotion that she had and it was such an interesting character to begin with. It's such a complicated thing. A one night stand, you give birth to the baby, and then 30 years later you see the guy. But that kiss that they have, I just burst into tears. I don't know what Jessica was thinking, but I just had the feeling, for one second she was just recapturing what they had. They must have had such physical attraction for one another…

Ah, OK. Well, there's a Lange lover as well who might want to avoid NYC on they're tossing crazies in the nuthouse against their will.

Of course you could say that about most of DL.

R156 There are many Lange lovers, dear, lol.

The Lange Troll is the person who repetitive posts about his love for Jessica. This includes posting the same videos and commentary over and over again. He’s been doing this for years and has been banned from other sites.

[quote] This will go straight to streaming.

I'm sure that the recent Black and White version of "Macbeth' went straight to streaming.

This will, at the very least, get a two-week theatrical release to qualify it for film awards. Bet.

Practically all adult dramas are going straight to streaming these days (with brief stints in theaters in LA and New York to qualify for the Oscars). The audiences for these types of films just aren't going to the theaters these days.

R161: Where do you live? The audience for these films still exists. I've been to them, recently.

Update:

Link to NY Times article:

“The premiere, according to [producer] Gleb Fetisov, is expected in the Fall of 2023 at the Toronto Film Festival and a wide release later in the year.”

It’s going to be a silent, somber piece peppered with explosive, volatile moments.. Mary gives her final speech as she submerges herself in the beach bordering the back of the house, a la Interiors.

Delusions of grandeur.