“Places, Please” to star Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates?

Was excited to see Streep in this role, but am more excited to see Lange in a starring vehicle that hopefully gets some traction with "mainstream" audiences.

This is exciting news. I'm assuming Lange will play Lillian Hall, and Bates will play a friend or rival.

Incidentally, the script status for Gia Coppola's adaptation of 'The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll,' which was set to star Lange and Naomi Watts, who are still attached, was updated on 4/20/23, so this film seems to still be a go.

Lastly, according to Anthony Uzarowski's upcoming biography on Lange, 'Jessica Lange: An Adventurer's Heart'-it's quite wonderful-"There's also another collaboration with Michael Sucsy in the pipeline." Could Suscy be taking over helming duties for ‘…..The Lonely Doll'-he'd be a perfect fit-or is Lange involved in his upcoming adaptation of 'Playing to the Gods,' a novel centered on the near-mythic rivalry between theater legends Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse?

Nonetheless, between this news and Lange's work in Jonathan Kent's upcoming adaptation of 'Long Day's Journey into Night,' which is scheduled to premiere at TIFF in September, we may be witnessing a late-career film comeback for Lange. We'll see!

[quote]the near-mythic rivalry between theater legends Sarah Bernhardt and Eleonora Duse

A reguluh Chanel vs Schiaparelli!

Film & Television Industry Alliance (FTIA) has this film’s shooting dates and location listed as May 22, 2023 to June 30, 2023 in Atlanta, GA. The film’s profile was updated on May 1, 2023, so I’m sure an official announcement is forthcoming.

Interesting tidbit: Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winner for ‘The Shadow Box,’ Michael Cristofer, who is set to direct this, played the corporate overlord and covert witch hunter Lange axes to death in American Horror Story: Coven.

Robin Wright is circling this project to play Lange’s daughter.

Everything but the dogs hoping at her rear end.

Nipping, dammit. Goddammit autocorrect.

Sounds boring as fuck. I'm sure Jessie will give her usual drawling performance twisting her mouth and casting her eyes downward.

Haven't her last few films grossed less than the cost of a Domino's pizza? Who's putting up the money for these flops?

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Looking forward to this

R10 As am I. Between this, the upcoming Long Day’s Journey into Night adaptation, and her project with Sucsy, it seems Lange is in the mood to play lead again. She hasn’t been the lead in a project in seven years.

Lange Troll you are repeating your posts in multiple threads.

That poor creature at R12 (and R9?). It must shout “Lange Troll” at every passing cloud.

R9 and R12 are two different posters. Easy to figure out if you aren't fat and lazy, like Lange's performances.

This sounds good.

Sounds very mid-1970s PBS.

R16 It does have a mid-1970s vibe, though I wouldn’t categorize it as PBS material. We’ll see.

Love Kathy Bates! Great news about the role.

Hmm, that synopsis sounds vaguely familiar, doesn't it Meryl?

Hmm, that synopsis sounds vaguely familiar, doesn't it Meryl?

I thought the same thing, R19 - R20.

How wonderful. Where is the press release?

R22 Filming is supposed to start May 22nd, so I’m assuming we’ll hear something shortly before or after then. I’m tracking this film’s IMDb Pro page, which was just updated yesterday; an editor was added.

R5, Michael Cristofer also wrote the script to the Untitled Marlene Dietrich Netflix Project that Lange and Ryan Murphy have been planning for the past four or five years.

If Jessica and Kathy were attached, they’d be saying that.

Sounds very Hallmark Hall of Fame!

Yawn.

Press release?

R25 I think the powers that be want to make sure they have all of their ducks in order before they make an official announcement. Back when Close and Bates became attached, there was no announcement.

Also, while IMDb isn't always reliable, if the personal makeup/hair artist adds themselves with a specific attribution to the crew of a film, it's basically always correct. These are credits from the “Places, Please” profile on IMDb Pro.

Lastly, it’s too much of a coincidence that Bates revealed she and Lange are preparing to do a film together and then suddenly they’re listed here.

The above credits are also listed on the artists’ regular IMDb pages.

Robin Beauchesne (she previously worked with Lange on The Gambler and Feud):

Chris Clark (worked with Lange on Feud and The Politician and also worked on The Prom; his credit for this pic is listed under “upcoming”):

So, you’re guessing and hoping.

R32 No, I’m inferring that Lange and Bates are attached to this film based on the credits listed for this film, which include their names, and an interview with Bates.

Jacques La Fiction has been signed to do Miss Lange’s wigs.

New announcements from IMDB Pro:

Kathy Bates gowns will be designed by legendary costumer, Helen Fibber.

Jessica’s makeup is being done by Rusty Mirage, a youthful 96 year old ghost.

So if Jessica were to be in it, who gets top billing?

In a fantasy world, anything is possible!

The Lange-hating troll is apoplectic and unraveling at a faster clip, I see.

Any truth to this rumor?

No cast announcement yet, but this finally hit this week’s issue of Production Weekly. Does anyone have a subscription to confirm what it says?

Oop. Wrong link:

Will Jessica have the chance to do some late-career nudity?

Jessica is on a roll. She's got at least 3, if not 4, high-profile projects and no actress deserves a better cinematic comeback than her.

I'm especially pleased that the project with Naomi Watts is being revived as well. I thought that was cancelled after there was no word on it for years so it's a pleasant surprise to hear it's still in the works. Naomi needs a good film role as well and it'll be wonderful to see the two King Kong heroines onscreen together.

None of these projects have been confirmed but thanks for sharing.

R44 is the Lange hating loon

R43 is the Lange Loon. Always making up stories.

Maybe they can use CGI to resuscitate Fay Wray for the King Kong heroines reunion.

Has anyone read the book The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll? I've heard it's creepy.

Kim Greene was added as the make up artist for Kathy. So now we have to makeup department crew members credited as working with Lange and two with Bates…

You can view Greene’s credit for this film here:

If Meryl passed on it then there must be an issue with it. She passed on "The Good House" and we all know how big that movie became.

This’ll be Bates and Lange’s fifth project together. The two are close friends.

Incidentally, it’s interesting that Lange has maintained close friendships with a handful of her female co-stars, including Bates, Sarandon, Spacek, and Amy Madigan. She’s also apparently good friends with Patti LuPone, Patti Smith, and and author Julia Evans Reed.

In any event, as reclusive and as much as a loner that she says she is, she has a better track record of maintaining friendships with women of her stature than most.

[quote] If Meryl passed on it then there must be an issue with it. She passed on "The Good House" and we all know how big that movie became.

The Good House was Sigourney's best role in years. It's a shame she didn't get any critical attention for it because she was wonderful and it felt like a return to form for her. I can't even imagine Meryl in the role because she lacks the patrician mannerisms that only Sigourney could portray.

I thought Jessica retired to northern Minnesota?

I believe the 2020s will relaunch Jessica as an A-List film star. Maybe not a commercial star, but certainly a critical one. All these films that have been announced have plum roles for any actress. I was under the impression that Long Day's Journey Into Night might be Jessica's last chance for a 3rd Oscar but now it seems like she'll have ample opportunity to collect a 3rd Oscar. I'll be a little less sad if the Academy gives Annette Bening her Oscar this year for Nyad over Jessica.

For Playing to the Gods, I'm very curious who will be Jessica's co-star in that. I'd love to see her and Glenn on the screen together and Glenn could also use a great role while we wait for Sunset Boulevard.

Oh Lange Loon, this movie is not confirmed and yet you are already predicting Oscars for Jessica. This sounds like another Wild Oats, if it is ever made.

I don’t think r53 Meryl would have been very good in that, I agree , but I can think of a few actresses who would have been probably a bit better than Sigourney. She was good but I always think there’s something lacking in her dramatic performances. Her line readings also …can just sound robotic at times.

I wonder if any of the shit talk uttered by the likes of Sharon Stone stating all the good roles for older women go to Meryl have influenced her recent departure from projects and general low profile.

R58 I think she has kept a low profile and not doing any big starring roles that she promoted since 2017 perhaps in part because she was aware of the backlash against her, fuelled in part by her continuing presence as an Oscar nominee.

I don't think she's bothered by comments from the likes of Stone. Sarandon actually said something similar about her in the 90s too. I also think part of why Meryl highly praises other actresses is she's aware of the bad feelings generated from her always being lauded over all others.

She or her husband may have been ill, or just wanted to be a Grandmother, hence her dropping out of the like of The Good House or this movie. Or she may just be sick of acting in serious roles and want to have fun.

Just to add, although she was the star of the acclaimed "Let Them All Talk" it was shot in something like 13 days and had a lot of improvisation, and happened sort of spontaneously after working with Soderbergh on the disappointing Laundromat movie.

Glennie has also taking a few digs at Meryl despite Streep sending her antique earrings she admitted and wishing her luck when she opened in Sunset Boulevard. Siggy also complained that Meryl was always first choice for every role in Yale drama school.

I guess when you're really talented but someone is always praised and offered the best roles first it does piss you off!

Besides Sarandon saying the same stuff that Sharon Stone just did but way back in the 90s, Jessica Chastain also called out Meryl sometime before Sharon did. Imo Streep's massive decline is linked to Weinstein. No one bought her BS about him. Glenn has never even worked with Weinstein but even she knew the truth about him because she said the people who did her hair and makeup would talk about it all the time. The moment Weinstein was locked up, notice that Meryl stopped getting roles AND Oscar nominations. The new Academy voter base is not interested in that aging cow whereas before, while Weinstein was around, she was getting Oscar nominations just for sneezing in a new accent.

Also I find Meryl very disingenuous with her contemporaries and I think they all see right through her. Look at that list above with all of Jessica's friends she's kept in touch with. I've never heard of Meryl having any friends like that except for the deceased Carrie Fisher, who Meryl knew was never a threat to her, and Emma Thompson, and we all saw how Meryl sabotaged her Oscar bid for Saving Mr. Banks. Meryl claims she and Glenn are friends but Glenn didn't even hesitate to say that's not true, they've never been friends. Meryl praises Jessica over and over and Jessica doesn't even deign to ever make a comment about her back. I've never heard Sharon, Susan, Sigourney, Sissy, or Sally feel the need to praise her either. For that matter, same with Frances McDormand who is the current reigning queen of the Oscars. Frances doesn't deal with that BS. Kathy Bates and Michelle Pfeiffer like to work with Jessica, but I've never seen them show any interest in working with Meryl.

Pauline Kael hated Meryl but loved Jessica Lange and Michelle Pfeiffer.

Katharine Hepburn liked Julia Roberts, Melanie Griffiths, and Sally Field. Vanessa Redgrave was her favorite actress and she considered Glenn Close her successor. Meryl to her was only *click*click*click.

Lauren Bacall adored Jessica Lange as well as Annette Bening and Kate Winslet.

Anthony Hopkins thinks Jessica Lange is the greatest actress of all time and that Emma Thompson is his best co-star.

This sounds fascinating.

Thank the goddess Glenn Close is out.

R61 you're full of shit. Firstly Bates has praised her and tells a funny story of them getting drunk together after they lost the Oscar to CJZ in 2003.

Meryl was in a very small number of Weinstein produced movies. Why the fuck would Harvey help her get nominated for all the many movies he had nothing to do with, lessening the chances for his own movies? That's just dumb. You make it sound like she was his moll.

You also forget his bitter campaigning for Winslet in The Reader cost Meryl a win for Doubt. His campaign for CZJ and Chicago cost her a win for Adaptation. His campaign for Helen Mirren and The Queen over Streep in Prada. I'm not suggesting she would have won these but he sure went to bat for many other actresses, for his own interests.

Meryl has plenty of friends including Julie Walters, Catherine O'Hara, Goldie Hawn, Tracey Ullman, the late Nora Ephron and Christine Baranski. Almost everyone who's worked with her has nothing but good things to say about her. You don't have to spread tired old lies about her knowing about him, she openly admitted she thought he was an obnoxious pig when she did work with him but that's Hollywood.

And when has Lange or Sarandon ever complimented another actress of their stature?

Hepburn hated Streep as she saw her as a threat. She was also nasty about Glenn and her "ugly feet".

If you want to play the name game Bette Davis praised Streep to high heaven

People complaining about her getting the plum roles don't recognise that Meryl gets cast because she makes money. Ephron said the only way Julie & Julia got greenlit was because Streep signed on. It made $130m.

Her Thatcher movie made $130m

Her sex movie with Tommy Lee Jones made $120m

Her romcom with Alec Baldwin made $230m

The Post made $200m

The Good House made less than $3m

Producers will cast whoever has box office appeal and marketability

Where’s that press release for Jessica’s new film? You said it would start shooting soon.

Didn’t Streep suddenly have 3 grandchildren? I have a feeling that was more interesting to her than working a lot.

I wonder why this movie never gets made. Maybe no one will finance it.

[quote]r62 Pauline Kael hated Meryl

Kael didn’t hate Streep. She thought she was “unusually effective” in The Deer Hunter and admired other performances here and there. She certainly never trashed her.

Mostly she thought Streep was mis-marketed, being ideally suited to musical comedy.

Kael felt Streep's performances were too perfect they left her cold. She said she couldn't imagine her acting from the neck down (whatever that's meant to mean). She obviously didn't see her in Silkwood

Here's Helen Mirren, who worked with Weinstein as late as 2015 say she was absolutely shocked by the reports of his abuse. How come Meryl should know but Helen didn't?

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R61 are all the celebs who claimed they didn't know the extent of Weinstein's abuse telling the truth except for the nefarious Streep?

Does Glenn have anything in the pipeline or is she saving all her time and energy for Sunset Boulevard? I haven't heard of any upcoming projects with her.

[quote] You also forget his bitter campaigning for Winslet in The Reader cost Meryl a win for Doubt.

Meryl’s cornball, scenery chewing performance cost Meryl a win for Doubt.

Didn't Kathy Bates claim that Meryl was pissed that CZJ won the Oscar over her? Add CZJ to the long list of women Meryl is insecure about.

More made up stories

Robin Wright as Jessica's daughter makes sense. They always had a very strong physical resemblance. It's also known that Sean Penn is a huge fan of Jessica Lange and some have speculated that his attraction to Robin Wright was in part because of her resemblance to Jess.

The screenwriter is Marian Seldes's niece. The lead character, Lillian Hall, a celebrated stage actress sounds like she has similarities to Ms. Seldes (never missing a performance, for one.) Marian's middle name is Hall, her mother's maiden name.

Sunset Boulevard is not going to happen. Not with Glenn Close. Nothing's wrong with playing 50, unless you're looking 76.

R72 Yeah, so much so she has a 'I Love Harvey' tattoo on one of her big fit arse cheeks.

^ That should be 'FAT' not fit.

R82 Freudian slip Granny-banger!

Lol R76 I doubt Meryl is insecure about CZJ. Kathy tells the story of them having a vodka at the bar after their category was called.

R72 Helen has been passed around the casting couches across Hollywood since the late 1960s. She probably sees it as normal acceptable behaviour. Doubt she has ever been asked to do anything she wasn't happy tom comply with.

R85 Mirren never made anything besides the odds supporting appearance in Hollywood movies until the 2000s. She was mainly in British or European funded movies or in plays. Not that I'm sure she hasn't been abused a lot when younger, didnt she say as much?

"Actresses, like Meryl Streep, who happily worked for The Pig Monster, are wearing black [at the] Golden Globes in a silent protest. Your silence is the problem. You’ll accept a fake award breathlessly and affect no real change. I despise your hypocrisy." - Rose McGowan

Someone is triggered. Because Jessica has not been cast since The Politician.

R87 you obviously have critical reasoning problems. Then you're saying everyone knew including Glenn, Dench, Mirren, Lange, Sarandon? Why pick Meryl out?

You're an asshole.

People have (conveniently) forgotten that Streep was blamed for Harvey not because she did anything wrong, but because she dared to criticize Trump, she is the biggest actress in the world, and it was a way to punish a woman/Hollywood. Even now, the same morons blame her when hundreds of actors knew Harvey. Don’t get me started on Rose McGowan that attacked woman because she was out of work and irrelevant.

Lange Loon, you must be so excited that this imaginary film will start shooting on Monday.

While I wait for something new from Miss Lange, I will watch something old from this collection:

That's an incredible collection R92 so thanks for bringing it to our attention! Although I wish they would have included Sweet Dreams instead of Losing Isaiah.

Since the Lange Loon refuses to accept that Jessica Lange is making a comeback, even when all proof is posted here, I wonder how he'll refute Kathy Bates herself.

Keep digging that hole. More made up stories.

R95 Lange Loon is truly proving his lunacy when he flat out ignores Kathy Bates' own words. Apparently she's a liar making up stories now. Can't handle the fact that Kathy prefers Jess anyday over his sacred, aging cow Meryl.

[quote] Imo Streep's massive decline is linked to Weinstein. No one bought her BS about him. Glenn has never even worked with Weinstein but even she knew the truth about him because she said the people who did her hair and makeup would talk about it all the time…Meryl claims she and Glenn are friends but Glenn didn't even hesitate to say that's not true, they've never been friends.

There was a immediate backlash when M stated she was unaware of Weinstein’s sexual misconduct (even though Helen Mirren and Judi Dench said pretty much the same thing), especially from Trumptards still pissed off by her Golden Globes speech. And G - smelling blood in the water - knew exactly what she was doing when she issued a statement not long after that “everyone knew”. Then later following up with that interview where she said she and M were never friends. She did her best to throw M under the bus.

Show us the official announcement.

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Jessica was very sly telling us that The Politician will be her final TV role, hinting at her retirement for those who do not know better, but really meaning she is leaving TV for a grand return to the silver screen.

More lies.

Thank you R101 for your wonderful contributions to this thread, repeating the same word over and over. Perhaps you would find yourself more stimulated by branching out and extending your vocabulary, not to mention taste.

R97 don't forget Glenn sharing her own harrowing #metoo experience, of a director putting his hand on her...thigh

Jane Fonda did the toilet conversation thing (for laughs not true grit) in "Fun with Dick and Jane" (1976).

Starting at 0:35 at the link below, we learn that director Michael Cristofer is currently in Atlanta doing pre-production on a new film project with "people in it that you are going to want to see." Why the secrecy?

That is all.

Jessica is on roll with projects lined up, one after another.

Omfg. They added 22—TWENTY-TWO!—fucking supporting cast members—all unknowns—to this film’s IMDb Pro page between yesterday and today, but no confirmation on who is playing Lillian Hall, and no Lange or hates! 😭 Based on R105, me thinks Michael know exactly what he’s doing! And frankly, I’m love-hating the suspense.

That said, the aforementioned makeup artists and hair stylists are still credited to “Jessica Lange,” “Kathy Bates,” and “Jessica Lange and Kathy Bates,” respectively. ☝🏻😌 I suppose we’ll find out more on May 22, when shooting begins.

Cristofer did a brilliant job with ‘Gia.’

Lange has finally been added to the cast as Lillian Hall.

R109, ... in a large cast of unknowns. I hope it gets better.

R111 First, this film looks like it’s going to have a rather large cast. Second, never underestimate the power and potential of an unknown thespian.

Streep may be playing Bates’ role now…

So Bates and Streep play Lange's daughters?

R114 lmao.

Streep will play Lange’s best friend. Bates will be busy shooting Matlock.

Streep has nothing to do with the movie, she dropped out

This is the first I'm hearing of this project, and would like to state that "Places, Please" is the campiest working title I've heard in a long, long time. Will it be subtitled "The Helen Lawson Story" or something?

R116 You’ll find out soon.

Lily Rabe has been added to the cast.

Is Lily is playing the daughter? Or will that part go to the yet-to-be-announced Sarah Paulson?

R120 I was thrilled to see Lily was added in part because I felt it lessened the chances of Paulson appearing in this. Rabe is a much more talented and compelling actress. In either case, I wouldn’t be surprised if she’s playing the daughter.

A tweet.

[quote]R103 don't forget Glenn sharing her own harrowing #metoo experience, of a director putting his hand on her...thigh

Probably as far as he could force himself to go.

This has been reclassified from “Pre-Production” to “In Production” on IMDb. It looks like filming has commenced.

I hope Jessica knocks it out of the park. Remind these young whippersnappers what a great actress can do when given the material!

R125 I’m thrilled for her. As previously noted, Lange works when she so chooses. It’s great to see her emerge from her cyclical hermeticism and forays into supporting fare as favors to friends and those she admires and get to real work. Here’s hoping ‘The Lonely Doll’ and Sucsy project are not far behind. 🥂

Also, according to this film’s status on IMDBPro, filming began last week, as previously reported.

Lange could see a great renaissance if LDJIN is a success this year and her Marlene Dietrich mini-series takes off next year, plus this movie. Hope they aren't duds, she deserves a revival

Kathy Bates has finally been added to the cast on IMDb.

Wasn't, R118 AKA the Mad Meryl freak trying to claim that Kathy Bates had been replaced with Meryl and we all just needed to be patient and wait for the news to come out? So much for that. No one wants that washed up, worn out, old horse anymore.

R130 The Lange Loon was so apoplectic about the idea of Lange being the lead in two films within a year, it tried convincing everyone that the Lange fan was delusional for believing what was reported on IMDb, i.e., that Lange and Bates are starring in this.

So Jessica's upcoming projects include Long Day's Journey Into Night with Ed Harris, Places Please with Kathy Bates, The Secret Life of the Lonely Doll with Naomi Watts, and the Ryan Murphy limited series on Marlene Dietrich.

R132 And the Michael Sucsy film.

R133 What's that one about?

R134 It hasn’t been announced but it’s mention in her new biography.

Oh neat. I still haven't picked it up yet. Very exciting to see Lange get a career resurgence. It reminds me of Susan Sarandon becoming one of the most in-demand actresses in her 40s in the 90s or Katharine Hepburn's era of prestige films in the 60s-80s except Lange is much older than both of them.

Outside of Bates, two other actresses I'd love to see her star alongside again are Joan Allen and Susan Sarandon.

Oh and I forgot Michelle Pfeiffer.

Because of this thread, I had a dream Jessica, Kathy, and Meryl were working together on a film and Meryl was being iced out and bullied by the other two.

Aww

R139 I'm sure Jess and Kathy crib about Meryl and her airs anyway. They're far more down to earth. I wouldn't be surprised if that was the same case with Kathy and Glenn when they worked together in The Great Hilly Hopkins. Glenn doesn't even pretend anymore to like Meryl.

I'd much rather see Meryl.

R141 lol are you the idiot who thought Meryl sunk Thompson on purpose by saying Disney was an anti-Semite?

Bates had some really nice things to say about Streep in some interview she did years ago. And how exactly does M put on airs?

I think Glenn is a good duck but she doesn't really have many showbiz friends that we know of, she might be a loner, which is cool. The only bitchy thing she said about M was that she never has had to struggle for roles. G is understandable a bit jealous as a few plum roles would have come her way if it weren't for Streep.

Lange and Bates have been spotted filming around Atlanta. Lange is sporting a “mostly grey with a little bit of faded strawberry blonde” hairdo.

So nice of Meryl to step aside for these golden oldies

Places, Please shall become a new classic like All About Eve.

Jessica Lange will continue the legacy of Bette Davis as she did with Katharine Hepburn (Long Day's Journey Into Night), Joan Crawford (Feud), Vivien Leigh (A Streetcar Named Desire), Gene Tierney (Night and the City), Elizabeth Taylor (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof), Fay Wray (King Kong), Lana Turner (The Postman Always Rings Twice), Frances Farmer (Frances), Marilyn Monroe (Blue Sky), and Patsy Cline (Sweet Dreams).

R146 so you're basically accusing her of ripping other stars off?

I never miss a Lauren Buglioli movie

Isn’t this shut down because of the WGA strike?

R147 Not at all. I'm pointing out that Jessica carries the cinematic legacy of the great actresses of yesterday. I seldom see actresses today give a damn about any of the legends (minus Marilyn although I hardly consider her an actress). Lange has paid tribute to all these women and her star shines as bright as theirs. I should add that Marlene Dietrich will be on her list as well with the new Ryan Murphy limited series about her starring Lange.

Glenn is the only other actress I have seen who similarly pays homage to her predecessors. Katharine Hepburn is her idol and Glenn channeled her for her debut film appearance in The World According to Garp not to mention in the TV version of The Lion in Winter. Then there is Gloria Swanson in Sunset Boulevard, Mitzi Gaynor in South Pacific, Tallulah Bankhead in the 101 Dalmatians movies, and her Maxie was also an ode to 1930s actresses. Not to mention she also played Blanche in Streetcar so like Jess, she's paid homage to Vivien Leigh as well. She was also the one who gave Deborah Kerr her honorary Oscar.

R149 Glenn channelling Vivien Leigh for the masses? You're really stretching it now. I bet you had high hopes Wild Oats would be a major box office smash too.

Kathy filming.

She looks wonderful. I think this is the first time I've seen her with really long hair. It suits her.

For those who don’t have Instagram.

Will Jessica Lange be playing her character as lusty but slightly unstable, with a climatic breakdown scene?

Mr. Pierce Brosnan, OBE, has been added to the cast.

Report from an extra who saw Lange and Rabe filming a scene.

More interesting details about Jess behind the scenes. Part of this exchange was included in the previous screenshot. According to the extra, Lang‘s character appears to suffer from Alzheimer’s.

More.

According to Lange’s hair stylist, the filming has wrapped.

I'm ready for my close up, Mr. Cristofer.

^The chick knows howda pose.

Is this some low budget under the radar film? There has never been any press release on it. I wonder who financed it.

R163, there was press when Meryl was involved.

^ I meant R162.

Hmm. I guess Jessica did not merit a press release. I hope they can sell it for distribution.

There’s no grand conspiracy, Matthew., R165. In a recent interview posted above, the director of the film made it clear he didn’t want to prematurely reveal anything about the film, specifically about the cast, before production began and wrapped.

Re: the picture at R160, she is one of those people who exudes sex, doesn't matter how old she gets.

Well, guess that’s better than no release at all.

If I'm appearing in this movie, I want the "And Special Guest Star" credit!