Jessica Lange is still running for --Long Day's Journey Into Night

If her acting career ended up being Mary Tyrone, Jessica Lange would be willing to take it.When she recorded the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast at the Virginia Film Festival, she talked about age and retirement: Many characters will leave her as they grow older, but she doesn't think she will meet a better character than Mary in the future.

The 77-year-old Lange came to the film festival with the new version of Long Day’s Journey Into Night and received the film festival’s Visionary Award.Mary was living in Connecticut in 1912, suffering from a morphine addiction.Lange was already familiar with the character: she debuted the role on the London stage in 2000, earning an Olivier Award nomination; she performed it again on Broadway in 2016, winning a Tony Award.

Lange worked for nearly ten years to bring this play to the screen.Funding was secured and failed several times, and even after the cast and crew had arrived on set in Ireland, the project still suffered changes.In the end, Lange, screenwriter David Lindsay-Abele, and director Jonathan Kent completed the film.This script had a movie version starring Katharine Hepburn in 1962, and now she has finally left her own screen interpretation.Lange is very proud of the finished film and is following the film festival and small-scale theater screenings, hoping that more people will know about this film launched by a small distributor.

She has been a film actress for 50 years, starting from her first appearance on the screen.With two Oscars, three Emmy Awards and a Tony Award, she has the Triple Crown of Acting; according to reports, there are 24 actors who have won these three categories of acting awards, 10 of whom are still alive.Looking back at the starting point, what she remembers is an appearance that almost destroyed her confidence.

Lange, who was still working part-time as a model at the time, was discovered by producer Dino De Laurentiis and starred in the 1976 remake of King Kong.The large-scale publicity before the release once put her on the cover of Time, but the impact of the first film made her doubt herself and her career was almost interrupted.

Little by little she regained her footing.First directed by Bob Fosse - All That Jazz (1979), and then starred in Bob Rafelson's - The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981).In 1982, Frances, directed by Graeme Clifford, and Tootsie, directed by Sidney Pollack, both brought her Oscar nominations, the latter of which gave her her first win.

Subsequent works include Richard Pierce's Country (1984), Karel Reisz's Sweet Dreams (1985), Bruce Beresford's Crimes of the Heart (1986), Costa-Gavras' Music Box (Music)Box, 1989), and Martin Scorsese's Cape Fear (1991).In 1994, she won her second Oscar for Blue Sky, directed by Tony Richardson.

After becoming a mother and entering her forties, Lange experienced a professional slump.There are fewer acting opportunities, more supporting roles, and fewer projects that really excite her.A break came in 2009 with the HBO miniseries Gray Gardens, for which she won an Emmy Award.

Since then, her collaboration with Ryan Murphy has brought her to a new stage: from 2011 to 2015, she starred in four seasons of American Horror Story, two of which brought her Emmy Awards; in 2017, she starred in Feud: Bette and Joan.This year, she returns for American Horror Story Season 13, which aired from September 24 to October 29.The new movie and new season of the series put her once again in the running for Oscars and Emmys.