The screenplay by jones, kieran fitzgerald and wesley. I did a very silly thing right before i interviewed tommy lee jones. 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. Academy award winners tommy lee jones, hilary swank and meryl streep star in this action epic set in americas west in the 1850s. The storyline is quite unusual with some rather unexpected detours. 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. The point of the homesman, directed by tommy lee jones and based on glendon swarthouts novel of the same name, is not that these adjectives are inappropriate. Tommy lee jones rustles up fine feminist western, homesman. Tommy lee jones eli wallach anthony perkins recommended for you. Hilary swank did it in just five years, for boys dont cry and million dollar baby, all before she turned 30. 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. Hes uneasy to hear the homesman, a film he cowrote, directed and stars in. The homesman is a 2014 historical drama set in the 1850s midwest, directed by tommy lee jones.
His gruff, rugged, joli laid appearance references the clark gablespencer tracy credo of masculinism. Tommy lee jones, born september 15, 1946, san saba, texas, u. In the homesman, based on glendon swarthouts novel, he has put female suffering. The homesman is a western starring tommy lee jones and hilary swank and directed by jones. The homesman dp rodrigo prieto on working with tommy lee. The homesman stars hilary swank and tommy lee jones.
Tommy lee jones the homesman is haunted by how the west was won the homesman is an unusual western, to be sure. Find exclusive interviews, video clips, photos and more on entertainment tonight. 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. The book offered us a chance to make a screenplay that had some originality to it, and of course, our lives as filmmakers.
James kleinmann interviews actor turned director tommy lee jones for his movie the homesman which stars tommy lee jones, hilary. The screenplay by jones, kieran fitzgerald and wesley oliver is based on the 1988 novel of the same name by glendon swarthout. While tommy lee jones plays, hilary swank steals the homesman. It was producer, michael fitzgerald, who sent the book to jones to ask if. About 20 years ago, i directed a movie for ted turners television network, based on a book written by a texas writer by the name of elmer kelton. The homesman dp rodrigo prieto on working with tommy lee jones and reinventing the western. Jones, 64, married his third and current wife, dawn jones, in 2001. Tommy lee jones directorial debut was a powerful drama with a great name. We got this covered sits down with tommy lee jones and hilary swank to talk the homesman. Tommy lee jones lasst keinen zweifel daran aufkommen, dass seine. The homesman hilary swank and tommy lee jones go west with volatile cargo 4 out of 5 stars. Tommy lee jones stars in the movie the homesman dujour. The homesman interview with tommy lee jones and hilary swank. A chat with tommy lee jones, tommy lee jones interview.
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Tommy lee jones won the oscar in march, for his work in the fugitive, but by then his oscar surge was already well under way, as if hollywood had anticipated the award. Tommy lee joness the homesman brings a lost america to. Tommy lee jones interview sot didnt have a lot of time was shooting one movie and working on this with writers i cant say no to that question built to grow on you and stay with you on political content in his work the movie will speak for itself would call myself an independent politically al is a dear and lifelong friend and i. Tommy lee jones stars in the movie the homesman avec. Interview interview 1995 interview with elmer kelton in interview magazine june 1995 the oldtimers thought, well, fires bad. Tommy lee jones the homesman is haunted by how the west. We have to get it back into the system somehow, in safe, controlled ways. This entertaining, genrebending western with hilary swank also has deeper themes on its mind.
The 68yearold actor has a reputation for being abrupt, grumpy and even downright rude to people, no matter how enthusiastic they are about his work. Tommy lee jones recoils at being pigeonholed, if recent interviews are any indication. The film stars jones and hilary swank and also features meryl streep, grace gummer, miranda otto, hailee steinfeld, john lithgow, and james spader. A native of hardscrabble san saba, texas, jones, only son of a cowboy turned oil rigger, had a childhood even he has. And i saw in swarthouts book the chance to make a movie that. 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. 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. Discover the growing collection of high quality most relevant xxx movies and clips. The executioners song 1982 tommy lee jones eli wallach full length movie duration.
For a brief moment he seems to be the master of his destiny. Tommy lee jones and hilary swank bring the stark reality of the nebraska frontier. Tommy lee jones recoils at being pigeonholed, if recent interviews are any. London i think that the genre of western in film is defined by having horses and men in big hats, tommy lee jones said recently.
It was producer, michael fitzgerald, who sent the book to jones to ask if he. The homesman hailed as a feminist western by some, the homesman only is up to a point hilary swank and tommy lee jones in the homesman. 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 in the homesman, a film he also directed photo. Unlike the book, the film downplays the exhausting everyday. Tommy lee jones on his latest movie the homesman the. A spinster pioneer hilary swank and a brokendown claim jumper tommy lee jones journey east to bring three madwomen back to civilization.
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