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Jessica Lange & Jonathan Kent On The Turbulent Road Of Bringing ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ To The Big Screen: “Sometimes The Struggle Is Helpful” — Glasgow Film Festival
The pair discuss the challenges of bringing Eugene O'Neill's epic play to the big screen, which screened at the Glasgow Film Festival
After Lange completed her run on the 2016 Broadway revival of the play with prolific British theatre director Jonathan Kent, which won her a Tony Award, the pair were keen to immortalize the epic story as a feature film. Set across a single day in August 1912 at the Tyrone family’s Connecticut seaside home, the story follows the four members of the family – Mary, her husband James, and their two sons Jamie and Edmund – as they face the dual looming spectres of Edmund’s potentially fatal consumption diagnosis alongside his mother Mary’s increasingly fragile and anxious state of mind. Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter David Lindsay-Abiare was brought aboard to adapt the project for the big screen and condense what is a four-hour play into 109-minute feature film.
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