An interview with Jessica Lange, who received a Tony nomination for her performance in Paula Vogel's 'Mother Play' and stars in the new HBO film 'The Great Lillian Hall.'
Jessica Lange began her Broadway career playing Blanche DuBois in a 1992 revival of “A Streetcar Named Desire.' It was a challenge the two-time Oscar winner admits she wasn’t ready for. “I was very naïve,” she said via Zoom from New York, where she's starring in Paula Vogel's 'Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions.' “It was my first Broadway play and I stepped into this colossal play and character. I don’t want to shift anything, but I needed help and I didn’t get it.
In 'The Great Lillian Hall,' an HBO film directed by Michael Cristofer that premieres May 31 and will stream on Max, Lange plays another ill-equipped mother, a renowned stage actress forced to reckon with insuperable realities. While struggling with her memory in rehearsals for Chekhov's 'The Cherry Orchard,' Lillian is diagnosed with a form of dementia. Having lived for art — and the romance around it — she must come to terms with her encroaching dependence.
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