Jessica Lange ('Feud: Bette and Joan') talks candidly about 'tremendous complexity' of Joan Crawford
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- Jessica Lange ('Feud: Bette and Joan') dishes her role as iconic actress Joan Crawford and her Oscar, Tony, Emmy wins with Gold Derby editor Chris Beachum. We also chat about meeting Bette Davis back in 1983.
Lange is a two-time Oscar winner, having prevailed as Best Supporting Actress for "Tootsie" (1982) and Best Actress for "Blue Sky" (1994) among her six career nominations. Along with Meryl Streep and Cate Blanchett, they are the only actresses in Academy Awards history to win supporting and then lead in their careers. She also took home a Tony Award last summer for "Long Day's Journey Into Night." With that trophy, her two Oscars, and three victories at the Emmys, she is just a Grammy away from becoming the 13th person to achieve EGOT status.
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She's so beautiful - the way she talks while touching her hair. Intoxicating.
It doesn't get any better than Jessica!! She nailed it and deserves every award available!!!
dirkandi Have you seen her in Frances, the story of Frances Farmer.
dirkandi Duuuuuude YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS
AGREED!! xoxo :)
flawless acting work
or Big Little Lies because Jessica already has 3 Emmys already but Jessica is so great in Feud, I will not be mad if she wins her 4th Emmy
Jessica is a class act, and so rare in Hollywood. Will always love her work!
I'm having Feud withdrawals. Really missing it on Sunday nights right now.
Ditto
@@dinkydober I hear you both, that's why I bought it on Prime Video - I just CAN'T stop watching it.
Lange and Sarandon excelled in this miniseries. Loved it
Best actress ever and I like her more for doing this interview. She's such a phenomenally big star but she comes across as humble and not full of herself.
she is. she has attended several art events here in New Orleans, La. very very friendly. doesn't seem as if she's too enthused to autograph or take a selfie though. but, say hi, how are you? shake your hand. she'll do that. I would never ask a celebrity for an autograph or selfie. too much into there personal space or so I think.
I hope she'll work with some of my other favorite actresses. Eva Green & Cate Blanchett.
I love her so much in a non creepy stalker fan way. Just love like from a distance with so much admiration and appreciation for her talent and beauty kind of way.
She comes across as an actress who loves the work way more than being famous. I think that what separates her from Meryl Streep, as Jessica is more reserve and doesn’t get political if it could take attention away from her work or the project she’s in.
I agree completely! She has that unmistakable open book quality. I like how she goes into talking about discouraging her grandchildren from seeing Francis. That movie was my least favorite because of the horrible psychiatric treatment she received as a result of a mother who herself suffered from a personality disorder.
I miss Feud so much already. Seeing Jessica play Joan was absolutely incredible. Jessica did so amazing. I love you Jessica!!!!❤️❤️❤️❤️
why not let lange redo straightjacket?
LoveHouse or what about Baby Jane altogether?
I’ve already seen it 4 times! 😜
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Jessica Lange's compassion forJoan Crawford makes my eyes tear up.
Jessica gave Joan Crawford her due! JL was excellent in giving us a very rounded performance of Joan.
Idk why this woman always makes me cry for no reason, its just the way she speaks and her look and xmdkx idk im so into her
I discovered Jessica through American Horror Story and shes just a brilliant talent.
Ms. Lange is still looking incredibly beautiful after all these years. After watching A.H.S., I'm an even bigger fan!
She'll always be stunning. I love how media is starting to realize that every age has beauty.
Funnie8 Amen to that!
could listen and watch her all day, simply talking... watching her acting is a given....
Jessica is magnificent! That was her best role since AHS' Sister Jude. On par with Frances and Grey Gardens. Just like Joan, she seems a bit underrated, yet probably the best actress of her generation. She's always so mesmerizing.
Better than Streep in my books for sure.
@@carlomagno1196 thank you. I agree. Jessica would of been 100 times better in August Osage County. When I was watching that movie, I kept thinking this movie would have been tremendous with Jessica.
SHE LOOKS FABULOUS!
I worship this woman and her talent. She is the embodiment of what acting is.
Legend. The absolute cream of the crop.
What a fantastic talent she is, and a natural beauty that takes ones breath .
Her laugh has always and will always entrance me.
I LOVE YOU JESSICA! YOU'RE SUCH A GREAT ARTIST... 😍😍😍
I could watch her forever and listen to her voice all the time. This woman keeps me going.❤
It was a beautiful, fearsome portrait, Jessica. It was all the brutality of life, and facing mortality. Big stuff. Respect. Just profound respect.
Her hair is laidT! She looks stunning, I love me some Jessica Lange ❤️❤️❤️
She is and will always be my favorite actress, my mom looks like her and so i was always drawn to her since i was little. I think she is so underrated as an actress. And still so beautiful! and classy, elegant and charming.
Jessica Lange is one of my all time favorite actresses of all time! I really do miss her on AHS, but she can read the phone book and I would listen to her!
A Pleasant person, charming laugh. Love her work.
Her voice is so hypnotising 😍
Joan Crawford was my favorite actress when I was growing up and I had the pleasure of meeting her in 1969. She was gracious, down to earth and very beautiful. Jessica Lange managed to capture these qualities and more in "Feud." I love her portrayal of Joan.P.S. Joan passed away 40 years ago today, May 10, 1977.
I was just a teenager at the time and she took my breath away. I can still see the dress she wore and was surprised that I was taller than her. She really embodied the word "Star."
Awwww, I am jealous too that you could meet Ms. Crawford, but I am also very and truly happy for you! Thank you for sharing your experience with us, it is exciting! And also very nice to read she was the way you wrote :-)
Sorry, but Lange bore NO resemblance of the stunningly beautiful Crawford.
Gordon Hall: Agreed, I wish she looked more like her. What she managed to do was capture the 'essence' of Crawford which is so much more harder to do than an imitation.
Even though I think she did a very good job, I agree with you for 100%... in the beginning I had a problem to accept the appearance of Joan in Feud.
Nothing but admiration for Jessica Lange. Everything about her, from the sound of her speech to her natural beauty and graciousness and humility, is something to behold. And to be the better for it.
A lovely lady and an incredible actor!
..what a cool & classy lady!... give her a Grammy just because she's beautiful!!!!... ❤
The greatness in her portrayal is all in the fact that she became her without imitating her
My all-time favorite and those cheekbones!!
Jessica Lange!!!! I LOVE YOU☆♡☆
I love Joan Crawford, and I just knew her from Feud... So thanks Feud for that.
Magnificent performance!! Queen!
Evil Queen love Jessica😍😍😍😍
Jessica Lange is an excellent actress. I am in awe of this woman!
jessica was wonderful as joan , it was long over due to see joan portrayed as a human, good bad all of the above ,up to this point we only had that monstrous caricature of mommie dearest ,jessica really made joan come to life ,we love you jessica
Jessica Lange - still beautiful. Loved the programme.
When I listen to Jessica Lange talk about her art and life, I am ALWAYS inspired! Love you, Ms. Jessica!
The best actress ever. I was hooked from Tootsie. love how her career goes from strength to strength. Of recent years I have to say Grey Gardens is one of my favourite movies of hers. I live in UK so haven't seen Feud yet. It's coming soon.
She's winning an Emmy for "Feud" no doubt about it
MP 1993 I sure hope so !! she deserves it
I'm not sure about Susan's bette TBH
MP 1993 Susan portrayed Bette very well, but this was all about Joan really.
Sohail Jafar Jessica acted circles around the entire cast if we are being honest. She and Judy Davis were the highlights for me
Therapist 84 my point is that both the series and Lange did Crawford justice. Up until this point most of the public looked at Joan as that crazy monster portrayed by Faye in Mommie Dearest and Feud shown us a fighter and a smart woman with a complicated past. Of course there's an exaggeration to amplify the drama but Lange was extraordinary in every way.
Another interesting coincidence was when Jessica was nominated for Best Actress for Sweet Dreams (as Patsy Cline) at the 1986 Oscars and was up against Anne Bancroft for Agnes of God and Geraldine Page for The Trip to Bountiful (Page would win). Little did she know then she'd play Crawford some 30 years later appealing to Bancroft and Page to accept their Oscar should they win.
In '94 she and Sarandon were nominated in the same category, and 10 years earlier she and (as she says, "The Great") Judy Davis were nominated in Best Actress as well. So cool to see them all together in Feud!!
I didn't think anyone could replace Faye Dunaway as Joan Crawford in my mind, but Jessica managed to do it. Absolutely fantastic performance, you made me so emotional, my dear. Wonderful actress.
jpr90 Christina probably wishes Jessica could’ve played her Mommie Dearest in the film version
Dunaway did a campy interpretation of Crawford and it wasn’t very good acting. She pretty much admits it herself. It’s the fault of the director really though. Lange’s interpretation is brilliant and probably much closer to the real and tragic quality
of Joan Crawford.I feel Lange was better at doing Crawford than Sarandon was at doing Davis. But Sarandon definitely looked a lot more like Davis than Lange looked like Crawford. I just don’t think Sarandon captured Davis’s particular and peculiar speech patterns and mannerisms. Whereas Lange really seems to have captured Joan’s speech and voice and style much better.
@@lapislazuli7876 Dunaway's Crawford was campy just in a few scenes. Otherwise, Faye's channel of Joan was uncanny, Oscar calibre.
Jessica I have adored always her performances Sweet Dreams when she brought life to Patsy Cline was remarkable... she always brings an energy to every character.... just like she did with Joan.... okay loved it... I wish her all the best and BIG THANK YOU
This show was absolute perfection. Bravo and brava to everyone involved.
Jessica Lange is a magnificent artist!!!❤
She was absolutely brilliant in it! Such fun to watch her! A master class!!
I love Jessica Lange. She has so many layers in her performances. I adored her in Tootsie, her vulnerability and kindness in that role. She captivated the screen and continues to. Feud was terrific. Two amazing actresses.
Absolutely brilliant performance ! Best of luck at the Emmys !
She is so fantastic as an actress, it's downright scary. Way better than Streep!
MrS98VAC I love Jessica and all the roles she's played, but in recent years it seems to me that she's always "Jessica" in every role if that makes sense.
Sacred Swindell It makes sense, but it could not be further from the truth. She literally inhabits every role that she plays!
More human and authentic than Streep, but absolutely. And, by the way, sooo much more attractive.
Meryl Streep is good at performing and mimicing really (a chamelion)
BTW, she is a very scheming opportunist who can grasp the golden chances to shine.
Both are better than Bernie Bro cult victim Susan Sarandon. That's important to remember. She had a neurotic flashy role about a woman who could only play neurotic flashy roles.
Jessica did a superb job portraying Joan Crawford. I'm going to watch the Feud again.
where can i see Feud??
such a sweet, mellow lady AND one of our greatest living actors!!
Feud made me feel sorry for Joan. The scene with adult daughter near the end had me in tears.
But it almost made me dislike Bette. Her comment on Joan's death was heartless and cruel.
Sadly it may well have not happened if not for men trying to create publicity
From what I can see in "Feud", I'd say Bette Davis only made that remark about Joan's death because that's the "role" she was playing in life. Earlier, we heard her tell "Victor Buono" that if she were heard saying anything nice about Joan that it would wipe out half her talk show appearances.
On the surface it sounds cruel of her to say, but did you see the look on her face after she hung up on the reporter? She had this look on her face to say "My God, what the hell did I do? Why did I say that?" It appeared as if she was so trapped in this image of "I hate Joan Crawford", that she couldn't say what she really felt. Also, did you see her trying to call her when she heard she was ill, but then "chickened out" when she heard Joan's voice? I'e gone through that. There were people I considered reaching out to, and it was a good idea in theory, but I "chickened out" when push came to shove.
Jessica has become the Meryl Streep of the small screen. TV is better than film any way; love her.
SXiPPY Dennison How is TV better?
charming ... very charming.
She's a wonderful actress .Love her style to. She's looking beautiful 😍
The Full cast was brilliant played everyone to a tea!! ... Jessica you look so young all the best Lee
Most underrated Actress, Jessica LANGE is ONE of Hollywood's BEST....
Yes this was a really great piece of TV magic. ..roll on the film..would be amazing on the big screen. .. real gem and cheered me up and moved me.
It was EXTRODINARY to see JESSICA play JOAN. I would DREAM of having her do more on Joan's life. She was really one of the most facinating woman ever in show business. Jessica is a DREAM playing her! So grateful to of seen this series come to life!
Been a fan of hers since 1976!
What a beauty!
"You mean we could have been friends all this time?”
I met Jessica Lange when I was 10 years old in 1977 when she came to Australia to promote King Kong. She was just beautiful and so warm and friendly towards me. I was a child actor at the time and awestruck. I loved her in King Kong.
Who wouldn't want to play the part of Joan Crawford and her outstanding career in Hollywood?
Jessica Lange is such a amazing actress, you dont get the feeling she is Jessica playing a part, you truly believe she is that character
I love her so much such talented beautiful soul and woman ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I must say I am surprised with Jessica’s performance. I didn’t think she was right for the role of Joan, I was thinking Sigourney Weaver would have been more ideal. But after seeing Feud I am soooo happy Jessica got the role, she’s simply amazing
I loved Feud.Everybody's performance was great. Lange was fantastic!
I love what she said about Joan Crawford. To me, legacy is the superlative of all achievements because it's what you leave long after you're gone and it breaks my heart that Joan's is so tarnished while she basically spent her whole life creating hers, starting from the very bottom. I hope Feud, like what it did to me, encourages more people to rediscover Joan Crawford, see past the alarmingly inaccurate Mommie Dearest and some creative license taken by Ryan Murphy, and realize that she is no worse than any actress of her era and deserves the same, if not more, respect. Thanks, Jessica, for letting us see that beneath her Hollywood survival tactics, there is a good person who just wanted to love and be loved.
Ms. Lange is just a beautiful woman she’s a class act. I really wish Hollywood would use more of these remarkable woman in film.
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Ms. Lange is JUST such a lovely woman. Always has been always will be. It was a pleasure to watch this interview.
Why would people today know more about Bette Davis than *Joan Crawford*? Ms. Crawford was one of the true legends of the 20th Century, and had *two* enormously successful careers in entirely different arenas. She was also one of *the* most photographed women in history.
fantastic - thank you both so very much, such a joy to see this interview
I just LOVE Jessica Lange if I ever met her I would fall over - I've seen FRANCES so many times, and FEUD and of course Sweet Dreams
You ARE an amazing person....Thank you so so much for being you
Big love Jessica from the UK
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i love her! her voice
Totaly unique actress/woman, outstanding!
Fabulous interview. love Jessica Lange
What a sweet, fun interview. I loved EVERY aspect of FEUD and my fingers are crossed that EVERYONE gets a nomination. It's really tough to choose between Sarandon and Lange for best actor. However, if I HAD to choose one (what a Sophie's choice that would be) I would have to give it to Lange because she broke my heart playing Joan.
I hope Jessica Lange gets nominated but Susan Sarandon DOES NOT deserve a nomination. She was AWFUL as Bette Davis. Nothing like her at all. A pale, pale imitation. No fire or strength or anger like Bette had. I saw Bette Davis in person in 1974 in her "concert" appearance. They showed 1 hour of her movie clips then she came out and answered questions from the audience. It was great and a lifelong memory for me.
P.S. WOMEN are not ACTORS ; they are actresses!!! A woman can't win best actor awards. Only men can win those. I'm sick of women being referred to like men. Men are men and women are women. They're DIFFERENT!!!!!!
Why do you have to be so upset about an entry that was trying to be positive?
Lange looks so much better and younger here than in the tv series.
Incredible actress, interview and interviewer!
What a brilliant performance, simmering, restrained, compelling.
The only two actresses who still shine with the old Hollywoood elegance, intellect and glam are Jessica Lange and Cate Blanchett (honorable mention: Emma Thompson). Thanks a lot for posting this, love Joan and love Jessica :)
I just love Jessica Lange! She filmed the movie "Hush" several years ago in my hometown of Orange, VA. I've seen that movie more times than I can count.
I love this interview and the amount of insight Jessica Lange gives in it.
Her performance in the series was outstanding and it moved me deeply. For years I only ever knew „Mommy Dearest“ and it painted a very one sided picture of Crawford as far as dehumanizing her. But „Feud“ showed a very complex person under such complex circumstances and sparked such sympathy in me. I have to admit that I cried for Crawford when I saw the last episode. She was forgotten by the world and that broke her heart.
I love Jessica.. beautiful and strong.great role model for me.thank you.for sharing.
i love this woman! one of my first 2 movie i remember seeing her was king Kong, and losing Isaiah. many others as well just remember crying in both these movies!
I have loved her since Tootsie! She is an awesome actress and and a gracious woman!!
Grande y BELLISIMA MUJER.!.
Jessica brought "acting" to Feud and in playing Joan. There were no camp hysterics with her Joan, like...that other actress playing Joan in that other role. So many Joan fans didn't like Jessica because she wasn't mimicking Joan. As a lifetime Joan Crawford, Jessica TRULY brought her to life. She did everything right and I hope and pray she sweeps the awards for this role. Susan was good as Bette, but for me she was doing an impersonation as much as she was acting and Joan's role was the meatier and more fleshed out of the two Hollywood legends.
I have to admit - I LOVE Jessica Lange - she's a brilliant actress and I truly enjoyed her portrayal of Joan Crawford however - although I'm not a fan of Susan Sarandon's, I thought Susan was magnificent as Bette Davis. I loved "FEUD" - what a great series! Bravo to Jessica and Susan. And the rest of the cast was amazing, especially Jackie Hoffman as "Mamacita" and the great Judy Davis as "Hedda Hopper"
Lydia Lilli I had no issues with he portrayal but as a person who has read a good amount of books on both, I don't think it did Joan any real justice. Bette is easy to do, and that's not a slight. But I think what draws people to Joan is that complexity of charecter and look, and I just didn't see much of that in this portrayal of JC. She had many more dimensions to her than what we saw. Bette had exactly two, and we saw those.
R T at least it got rid of the Faye Dunaway portrayal
How did this guy get so lucky to interview Ms. Lange. I'd give my eye teeth for such an opportunity!
That was great! I love her 😍
Ms.Jessica Lange is the greatest...!!
ok thank you chris! omg she is sk sweet
Hello Jessica your the best... my favourite actress ( you always bring the character to life ) I was sad when the movie finished it was absolutely brilliant ! I'm hoping the sell the movie :) ...I hope you get to keep making many many more movies more ch love to you Jessica from Australia 🦋xxx
I LOVE HER SO MUCH
Ms. Jessica Lange is sooooo AMAZING and OUTSTANDING....
She is the BEST +++++