The west is a grim place in tommy lee joness ineffective 19thcentury oater, especially for mary bee cuddy hilary swank, a plainlooking nebraska spinster unlucky in love, if stalwart in spirit. He wont concede that the homesman, his latest effort as director, star and cowriter, is either a. The film stars jones and hilary swank and also features meryl streep, grace gummer, miranda otto, hailee steinfeld, john lithgow, and james spader. The director and actor explains why his new film, which costars hilary swank, is all about feminism and imperialism. Tommy lee jones is joining matt damon in the upcoming installment of the bourne identity franchise.
While tommy lee jones plays, hilary swank steals the homesman. Eight years after the three burials of melquiades estrada, tommy lee jones follows up his directorial debut with the homesman, based on the book by glendon swarthout and also starring miranda otto. Tommy lee jones and hilary swank talk the homesman collider. The homesman dp rodrigo prieto on working with tommy lee. Actor tommy lee jones wrote, directed and starred in this years film the homesman. Title and director notwithstanding, tommy lee jones the homesman is very much a feminist western one painting a vivid picture of how difficult it was for even a strong and. In the homesman, based on glendon swarthouts novel, he has put female suffering. I research folks before i interview them and im both glad and sad i studied up on mr. The homesman is a western starring tommy lee jones and hilary swank and directed by jones. Putting the female experience front and centre, the film focuses on hilary swanks mary bee cuddy, who leads a party of three women back east to. I loved being an actor in new york and working in the theater. The homesman is the latest directorial outing for veteran actor tommy lee jones following 2005s the three burials of melquiades estrada and 2011s the sunset limited is a revisionist western in the model of kelly reichardts meeks cutoff. The book offered us a chance to make a screenplay that had some originality to it, and of course, our lives as filmmakers. A straightshooter of the old possibly ford school, tommy lee jones is reluctant to engage in anything speculative.
Nine years later jones has followed up the three burials of melquiades estrada with another tough take on. Tommy lee jones the homesman is haunted by how the west. Tommy lee jones, who directed and stars in the homesman, based on a. We have to get it back into the system somehow, in safe, controlled ways. The executioners song 1982 tommy lee jones eli wallach full length movie duration. Perhaps thats because tommy lee, 47, isnt just acting. Tommy lee jones and the homesman missed movies the odds are pretty good that you might have missed even hearing about a movie last year directed by and starring tommy lee jones that also featured hillary swank, meryl streep, john lithgow, james spader, tim blake nelson, hailee steinfeld, and several other stellar actors.
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Jones, 64, married his third and current wife, dawn jones, in 2001. Browse through our impressive selection of porn videos in hd quality on any device you own. They said, hes not a good interview, he hates doing press, and if youre not planning to bring your agame, then you might as well not come at all. I did a very silly thing right before i interviewed tommy lee jones. The homesman hilary swank and tommy lee jones go west with volatile cargo 4 out of 5 stars. He was married to kate lardner, granddaughter of the writer ring lardner. Hailed as a feminist western by some, the homesman only is up to a point, writes mark kermode. Academy award winners tommy lee jones, hilary swank and meryl streep star in this action epic set in americas west in the 1850s. Tommy lee jones hollywood icons hollywood stars celebrity portraits celebrity photos the best films interesting faces male face american actors. The upcoming western the homesman stars oscarwinners tommy lee jones and hilary swank as, respectively, claims jumper george briggs and pioneer woman mary bee cuddy an odd couple who team up to transport three mentallyill women from nebraska to a mental hospital in iowa.
Tommy lee jones the homesman is haunted by how the west was won the homesman is an unusual western, to be sure. Hilary swank, tommy lee jones shine in the homesman. Webtv cds jazzme cds klassikkompass follow book editorial. Find exclusive interviews, video clips, photos and more on entertainment tonight. Jones also cowrote the films script based on the novel by glendon swarthout and served as the. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones.
Upstart company saban films will partner with roadside attractions to handle the u. It is a reverse trajectory of the typical western path, the wildness of the prairies and plains reverting, startlingly, to a tame village perched on the edge of the placid missouri river. Interview interview 1995 interview with elmer kelton in interview magazine june 1995 the oldtimers thought, well, fires bad. Tommy lee jones rustles up fine feminist western, homesman. And therein lay the challenge of costuming the homesman, a bleak frontier tale that finds mary bee cuddy, a desperate, homely spinster played by hilary swank, and george briggs, a noaccount drifter played by the films director and one of its writers, tommy lee jones, on a fiveweek journey to guide three disturbed women across the. Tommy lee jones lasst keinen zweifel daran aufkommen, dass seine.
James kleinmann interviews actor turned director tommy lee jones for his movie the homesman which stars tommy lee jones, hilary. With the homesman, directorcostar tommy lee jones inverts this storyline, presenting a bleak yet accomplished account of defeat, of how that frontier often forced a. The screenplay by jones, kieran fitzgerald and wesley oliver is based on the 1988 novel of the same name by glendon swarthout. Tommy lee jones the homesman is haunted by how the west was won. Hilary swank delivers a wonderful star turn in tommy lee joness grim yet witty feminist western. Hilary swank did it in just five years, for boys dont cry and million dollar baby, all before she turned 30.
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