Jessica Lange: 'The film industry has changed - it's a fickle business' #film #entertainment

Jessica Lange says the entertainment industry has “changed drastically” as she reflected on nearly 50 years in film and television. The American actress, 75, has reprised her Tony-winning role Mary Tyrone in the silver screen adaptation of A Long Day’s Journey Into Night, which had its UK premiere at Glasgow Film Festival. But filming, which took place in County Wicklow in Ireland in 2022, was hit by several delays, with the cast waiting for three weeks to resume shooting. “We got one day’s work in front of the camera, went home, came back the next day and they shut us down. Money fell out,” she told Scotland Tonight. “But we got it made.” Lange said securing budgets for films that don’t fit the megahit mould has become “almost impossible”. “I remember Sydney Pollack, director of Tootsie, saying to me, ‘these middle films that aren’t huge expensive blockbusters or tiny independent films? This road is going to be closed soon.’ These aren’t going to exist anymore – and he was right. “Just great storytelling, great parts, well-written, made for a decent budget, scraping and not getting shut down on the first day of shooting; I think that’s kind of come to an end. “I think things come and go quickly. It could be this year, it feels like that, next year it may not. It’s a very fickle business.”