With two Oscars, four Golden Globes and an exciting – free – life, he has already become a legend
She entered the movie sets as a beautiful woman, who had all the characteristics and qualifications to excel as a sex bomb. But very quickly, Jessica Lange (Jessica Lange), due to her strong personality and concerns, changed course and conquered the audience with her acting skills, but also as an uncommitted woman.
Lang was done 75 years old (born April 20, 1949) and has been mythbut far from the established ones of Hollywood.
He has won two Oscars, four Golden Globes and many other distinctions, while having an exciting life, full of strong loves, but also bohemian periods.
The distinctive charm, with flawless proportions and a face sculpted by a divine artist, will make her first appearance as the girl of “King Kong“, enchanting with its freshness, its fragile beauty and its source of sex appeal.
Almost immediately she will escape from the one-dimensional figure of a love symbol and especially after the sensational drama “Frances, an Unattached Woman”, which also matched her character.
Lange would command respect and acclaim in a career that now spans nearly five decades, rightly associated with a performer of dynamic, intelligent women with emotional intensity on the verge of a nervous breakdown without resorting to melodrama or exaggeration.
About her incomparable acting style, Glenn Jordan, who directed her in the remake of the famous stage play “The Lust Bus”, had characteristically said that “Jessica, in terms of its feeling and nuances, reminds me of a supermarket, with its shelves are full and everything is accessible.”
After King Kong, Baryshnikov
In the mid-70s, he will go through the casting process for the remake of the film “King Kong‘, as famed producer Dino de Laurentiis desperately searches for a new beautiful blonde to become the next queen of horror on the big screen. The role, turned down by Meryl Streep and Barbra Streisand, eventually went to the infamous Jessica Lange, who, although still immature as a performer, will win the Golden Globe debutant actress. In the same year, 1976, she will meet Mikhail Baryshnikov, with whom they will live together until 1982, without, however, getting married. In 1981 they will have a child together, Alexandra, while even today they have excellent relations with each other.
The golden age
The 1981 it will be one of the most important years of her life, as she will take on the role of Cora Smith in the excellent noir “The Postman Knocks Twice» by Bob Rafelson. Next to Jack Nicholson, Lange will record a wonderful performance.
Shortly after, however, comes the film that will take off her career and make her one of the hottest names in cinema. It is about the drama film “Frances, An Unattached Woman“, in which she will play actress Frances Farmer, who due to her left-wing and unconventional views, the studios will send her to a mental institution. Her shocking performance will haunt viewers of the time and she will receive the first Oscar nomination for Best Actress.
In the same year, she will change her repertoire, playing in the light comedy “Tutsi“, alongside Dustin Hoffman. A role that will also give her the first one Oscar Second Female Role. That is, Hollywood denied her the Oscar for “Francis” and gave it to her for the painless “Tucci”.
It’s clear that Hollywood knows how to handle its dark affairs, even if they come from the distant past. They don’t play with these…
Sensual and unpredictable
Lange is now well on the walk of fame and by the time the 80s are over, she will have two more Oscar nominations, with the films “Country” and “Music Box”, by our very own Kostas Gavras.
Until it comes too Oscar for Best Actress in 1994, for her admirable performance in the drama “Blue sky(Blue Sky) playing the wife of a nuclear scientist (Tommy Lee Jones), with unpredictable -again- sensual behavior.
Sam Shepard and the Depression
Jessica Lange, who will also have a great career in the theater, will fall in love with the famous playwright Sam Shepard in 1982, with whom they will live together until 2009 and have Two children, Hannah and Samuel. But Jessica Lange, as she has revealed, also suffers from severe bouts of depression. As she herself has said, in a melancholy tone: “I find it difficult to separate sadness and depression from my overwhelming sense of loneliness.” However, she will find solace in raising her children, for whom she has always felt guilty because she had to stay away from them because of her work.
Fighting woman
Jessica Lange remains active, mostly acting in TV series, but also always a fighting woman who cares about people and as a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador for Children and especially for the AIDS epidemic in the Democratic Republic of Congo, while never she has abandoned her great love, which is photography, exhibiting her works in America and Europe.
However, for all movie lovers she will forever be Jessica, an unattached – and guilt-free – beautiful woman…
Source :Skai
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