.....and refuse to do any promotion? I remember her speaking about it once on TV but not paying much attention but I do remember her saying she told Taylor Hackford it was a "piece of crap".
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Her performance in it was one of her worst. She was too old looking to play a college girl. It was combination of her performance being nad and the film also being bad. Quaid I liked though.
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Too old-looking? What-evurrr.
The timeframe of this movie covered about 25 years I believe. If you don't get a 39 year old Jessica Lange to play a college girl up to a mid-40's wife, then what are your options? Get a 20 year old to play Babs, then look unrealistically older when she is supposed to be aging?
If Robert Redford and Glenn Close played teenagers under a very frosty lens to camoflauge their real age, why can't Jessica pull off a college senior?
I thought she still looked great in this movie, but clearly as a smoker age was starting to take it's toll.
I don't know, I think this is a good movie but yeah she did look kind of old to be laying a college chick.When there's no more room in hell, The dead will walk the earth...
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I don't know why she wouldn't like it. I haven't seen a lot of Lange films, but this one was probably her best performance that I have seen.
I would think that it would be something she should be proud of.
This movie turned out to be way better than I expected it to be. I was expecting a cheesy 80s sports movie and this was definitely not cheesy at all.
Very well done, very well acted. The football action scenes were exceptionally well filmed. Probably the best sports film that nobody remembers.
Old post, but I think Hackford saw it as a sports film with an interwoven love story and Lange, possibly more truth to the novel, saw it as the reverse.
She also said in a 1998 interview that the chemistry between the actor's wasn't right and Lange said HERSELF, that she was too old for the role.
I also think that after Postman, Frances, Country, Sweet Dreams and Crimes of the Hart, EAA was the first after a series of films that was not critically well received.
Even more unfortunate, her two follow ups, Music Box and Men Don't Leave, were both gems, yet neither did well at the box office, so EAA was a beginning of a career low for Lange.
Don't forget she was in Cape Fear (1991) and that was a box office hit.
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Back in the 1950's, she would have easily passed for a 20-something. It's amazing back then many girls had still not yet bled when they were 14, but most looked like full-fledged adults at 17.
shareDon't forget she was in Cape Fear (1991) and that was a box office hit.
Very True, but that really wasn't her film with acting accolades going to De Niro and Juliette Lewis.
Lange said over the years that Cape Fear wasn't a film or a role that attracted her, but rather she wanted the chance to work with Scorsese after auditioning and losing the role of Vickie to Cathy Moriarty in Ragging Bull.
Mostly because t wasn't about her or her character
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