LANGE: I did it for about a year but I never really made that much money so I was working as a waitress for a while in the Village at The Lion’s Head. ROBERT HAYES: How long did you model anyway? LANGE: I don’t really want to model too much anymore. WARHOL: It would be great to just do underwear ads when you get two thousand dollars an hour. So he introduced me to some people and I did it, not very seriously but I did a little bit. He suggested to me that maybe I should try modeling, just to make some money. LANGE: For instance, it doesn’t resemble Marceau’s technique at all. LANGE: But this man’s mime was very different from anything you’ve ever seen. And that’s how I became interested in acting because there were a lot of actors in school who had come just to study mime for a little while and to get like a different kind of physical technique. I got involved with like a small kind of like experimental theater-mime company and we discovered that Étienne Decroux, a great mime, was still teaching in Paris so I went to study with him for several years. I left the university to come to New York and live in Soho. I went to the University of Minnesota to study art. Her main thing in life was raising children.ĬOLACELLO: When did you get the idea to become an actress? My family was like moving around a lot so I lived in a lot of small towns. I had a big family-two older sisters and a younger brother. I don’t know, it was like a typical childhood. And I’m going to have my 30th birthday next month so that gives you a rough idea of when I was born. LANGE: I grew up in Minnesota in little towns in the northern part of the state. Appearances aside, Jessica is warm, but shy, a bit out of sorts because of a publicity clamp on All That Jazz, uncertainty about her next project and reluctance to talk about her nearest and dearest, Mikhail Baryshnikov.īOB COLACELLO: We want to start at the beginning.ĬOLACELLO: Where were you born, and when?ĬOLACELLO: Just tell us a little bit about your childhood. Accompanied by her go-getting PR gal, Myrna Post, Jessica looks cool, calm and collected in a Rafael Blazer, YSL shirt and Calvin Klein skirt. Jessica Lange, star of Dino De Laurentiis’s King Kong and Bob Fosse’s just-wrapped All That Jazz, is lunching with Andy Warhol, Bob Colacello and Robert Hayes. Wednesday, March 14, 1979, 1:00 p.m., Interview’s Board Room, Union Square, New York. But what was Lange like before nabbing those credits? Let's take a look back at what the star looked like way back in the day.This story is part of a collection celebrating the best-and wildest-Warhol conversations from the Interview archives. She's stolen the show in multiple American Horror Story seasons, and she did the same in Feud, the 2017 anthology about the real-life battle between Joan Crawford and Bette Davis. Lange has joined famed screenwriter Ryan Murphy's posse in a big way.
To put it simply: Lange is an icon, and she's still in the spotlight. According to The Hollywood Reporter, she's one of the most Oscar-nominated actors of all time, earning six nods to date and one win for her role in the cross-dressing 1983 comedy Tootsie, opposite Dustin Hoffman.
It reportedly took years for another director to give Lange a chance, but Bob Fosse finally did, casting Lange in All That Jazz, and from there, her career really took off. "The film makers have turned a conventional heroine into a pseudo-Marilyn Monroe character who seems less dizzy than certifiably daft, aggressively unpleasant and out of place," The New York Times wrote. While the film was (no pun intended) a monster at the box office for its time, grossing a then-impressive $52 million, it negatively typecast Lange - some critics couldn't see more than a former model who was scantily clad and in distress throughout much of the film. Legendary actor Jessica Lange's career took off when she got cast as the lead in the 1976 blockbuster King Kong. Well, it took off in theory.
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