Posted on 10/06/2023 7:07:51 PM PDT by nickcarraway
The Oscar-winning 'King Kong' and 'Tootsie' actress pointed to big franchise films as having "sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in … for the sake of profit."
Jessica Lange doesn’t think she’s going to work in filmmaking much longer after feeling that “creativity is secondary now to corporate profits.”
In a new interview with The Telegraph published Thursday, the Oscar-winning actress spoke about her love of photography, bouts of loneliness, never feeling comfortable with fame and why she thinks the industry is not what it used to be for performers.
The King Kong and Blue Sky star admitted that she feels “wonderful films by really great filmmakers, wonderful stories, great characters” are rare now. As a result, she is considering retiring soon from the performance industry, telling the U.K. outlet, “I think I’m going to start phasing out of filmmaking.”
'Marlowe' Review: Liam Neeson in Neil Jordan's Tired Raymond Chandler Reboot When asked to clarify if she meant she’s “actually thinking of retiring,” the Tootsie actress responded, “I am.”
“I don’t think I’ll do this too much longer,” she continued. “Creativity is secondary now to corporate profits.”
The American Horror Story star and Golden Globe winner said that in today’s movie-making industry, “the emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your stockholders.” That is something that ultimately “diminishes the artist and the art of filmmaking” for the actress.
Lange pointed to “these big comic-book franchise films” — which she says she’s “not interested in” herself — as having “sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in … for the sake of profit.”
She also took aim at the “frantic editing” style of more modern productions, which is unlike her past films where the camera would linger and hold on an actor’s performance.
“I don’t know if it’s because the filmmakers think that they can’t hold the attention of the audience anymore,” she considered. “That kind of filmmaking drives me crazy.”
Boy, her epiphany sure took a long time arriving?!
They’re businesses, honey. They’re supposed to be making money.
Jessica Lange is still around and alive?
But, creativity died a long time ago in Hollywood. She hasn’t been paying attention.
But, Hollywood is now sacrificing profits for wokeness. So, again, she must’ve been brain-dead for the past 5-10 years.
Win-win.
It did - but she delivered the truth at least.
Jessica your industry is dying. You are ancient by the standards of it. You are also a typical hollywood raving leftist loon using virtue signalling to announce your exit. All very convenient. Adios
Tom Cruise knows the formula.
I’ve read that filmmakers are now filming for shorter attention spans, brought about by computers and cell phones.
I think AI imaging is a far greater danger to an actor.
She should’ve realized that 40 years ago.... but then again I thought she retired 40 years ago.
Wrong. Creativity and corporate profits are both secondary to woke ideology.
Well, they don’t seem to be doing a very good making money either, are they???
Jessica, try getting together with some of your friends and paying for a film to be made the way you want it to be made and see how it does.
Movie making is like any other business, you give the customer what he or she wants.
No one is watching The crap about gays and racism. Movies that swap races are ignored. The entertainment industry is no longer interested in entertainment but trying to “enlighten”, and educate the audience and i for one have no interest in that at all. My tastes in films are far more old fashioned, give me a good, honest war film, a good spy or suspenseful film will do. If you show me some gay dudes making out, I’m gone, bye bye.
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