SHORT TAKES : Lange’s Roles Appeal to Her
Actress Jessica Lange has become accustomed to working in movies that are not commercial films.
“So if one of them does become that, it would be a real surprise to me,” she said.
“It’s just because I’m attracted to things that are somewhat out of the mainstream,” she said in an interview in the January issue of Premiere magazine.
The 40-year-old Lange’s latest roles are in Costa-Gavras’ “Music Box,” in which she plays a Chicago lawyer contesting charges that her father is a Nazi war criminal, and in Paul Brickman’s “Men Don’t Leave,” in which she plays a newly widowed mother.
“The roles and the stories that make it interesting for me to spend six months or three months of my life involved in the playing of are maybe not what’s going to appeal to the majority, which is fine,” she said.
Lange lives with actor-playwright Sam Shepard, and they have two children. She has a third child by dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov.
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