Shes the character that has touched me more deeply than any role that Ive ever played, says Lange.
Shes written with such beauty and love and truth and intensity that you never complete her.
I could keep on playing her for the rest of my life.
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It happened very organically, Kent tells Deadline.
The project soon attached Ed Harris to play James, a celebrated actor but failed property magnate.
Ben Foster and Colin Morgan also star in the film, playing Jamie and Edmund respectively.
Ben Foster and Colin Morgan in ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’
But this demanded people in charge of the text and thats what the rehearsals helped with.
It also helped that they are all experienced stage actors.
I dont believe that these are theatrical performances in the film, but they are adroit at the language.
Kent admits the project had endless bumps along the way.
After a few weeks of rehearsals, filming initially started in September 2023 in County Wicklow, Ireland.
Lange had worked a number of times with Kenwright on stage productions such asThe Glass Menagerie.
There was a misunderstanding and Bill and I never really got it straightened out, Lange says.
It marked a nice full circle moment for Lange when Kenwrights BKStudios boarded the project.
The company financed the project with Magnoliamae Films, Brouhaha Entertainment and Fetisoff Illusion.
Once we came back and started shooting, we felt like we were connected and close, she says.
I wouldnt recommend it ever, but it was a whole adventure.
The garage at the side of the house blew into the sea, he recalls.
Everything had to be shrouded and the roof, the upstairs, was declared dangerous at some point.
It was a fight an absolute fight.
In a way, sometimes the struggle is helpful.
Long Days Journey Into Nightscreened at theGlasgow Film Festivalon Friday night at the Glasgow Film Theatre.
Blue Fox is repping international rights to the project.
