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Jessica Lange: ‘I’ve Never Really Felt Like I Belong Anywhere’ — Certainly Not Hollywood

Jessica Lange talks her Tony-nominated role in Broadway's 'Mother Play,' her views on Hollywood, the Oscars, Bob Fosse, and more.

Stage roles in Tennessee Williams’ “The Glass Menagerie” or “A Streetcar Named Desire,” and Eugene O’Neill’s “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” put Lange in the shoes of theater’s most troubled women. Lange, unadorned by prostheses or any of the visual crutches of aging in front of a film camera, rather plays Phyllis agelessly over the decades and marks the passage of time with subtle shifts in physicality. Lange earned her first Best Actress Oscar nomination for portraying the tragic downfall of Golden Age Hollywood actress Frances Farmer in “Frances”; she won her Oscar for playing a mentally unstable military wife in “Blue Sky.” She won her Tony for her performance as the morphine-addled matriarch Mary in “Long Day’s Journey.” In an interview with IndieWire, Lange spoke about what’s alluring about such dark characters, while admitting how exhausting “Mother Play” has been (she was slightly down with a cough when we spoke, three weeks after the Tony nominations were revealed.

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