Jessica Lange Feels Close to Ending Her Acting Career — SkimNews
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- Jessica Lange told Rolling Stone she feels close to the end of her acting career, saying, “I actually feel like I’m coming to an end.”
- Lange framed Long Day’s Journey into Night, in which she played Mary Tyrone, as “not a bad way to end,” while saying two projects that have been in the works “forever” may or may not happen.
- Lange said it no longer seems easy to get made the kinds of films that interest her, even as she said, “I love acting,” and described her career as “a great adventure.”
- Long Day’s Journey into Night and American Horror Story 13 marked Lange’s return to film and television this year, respectively.
- Long Day’s Journey into Night opened in theaters in September after being shot in 2022; apart from it, Lange starred in only two other movies over the past decade, Wild Oats (2016) and Marlowe (2022).
- Jessica Lange debuted in King Kong in 1976, won the Golden Globes’ new star of the year award, and later earned two Oscars from six nominations for Tootsie and Blue Sky, a 2016 Tony for Long Day’s Journey into Night and three Emmys from nine nominations.
- Lange said she wants to be remembered “for some good parts,” “some good films” and “for being an honest actor,” while expressing gratitude and luck for her decades in acting.
Why it matters: For Lange’s collaborators, the immediate issue is that two long-developed projects remain unresolved and the films she cares about are already hard to get made. Her recent output is also narrow—three movies in the past decade, with *Long Day’s Journey into Night* shot in 2022—making her comments part of an already reduced slate, not a sudden reversal.
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