Happy 74th Birthday, Jessica Lange!

An icon, legend, and iconoclast! 🤌🏻

What’s next: Jonathan Kent’s big-screen adaptation of Long Day’s Journey into Night opposite Ed Harris, Ben Foster, and Colin Morgan, Which is set to premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival later this year. Lange also has a film directed by Grey Gardens director Michael Sucsy “in the pipeline,” and another film with Kathy Bates in the works. Lange’s fifth book of photography, Dérive, with an introduction by Hilton Als, was published late last year and is currently in its second printing.

No one can simultaneously play unbridled sensuality and psychosis like her. A classic:

Jess and Angie killing it.

This bitch was on fire in Coven. AHS at its peak.

Be Kind Rewind’s wonderful assessment.

“Her willingness to foreground her characters’ sexuality gives Lange a more edgy glamour than Streep. She’s often more volatile, and by nature of being more alluring, she’s often more dangerous.”

I think the only time Meryl played horny was as Julia Child. She's often been an object of desire, but never overtly, almost uncontrollably sexual like Lange. I wonder how true that is for Jessica the woman, because Meryl's got an earthy sexuality about her in her more unguarded interviews.

Too bad she destroyed her face with too much cosmetic surgery.

R24 She looks beautifully natural and weathered, unlike some unfortunates…

This is a great interview—long, too—with Lange from Nov. 2022. I could listen to her talk for hours.

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