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Jessica Lange Is Donning Her Magical Thinking Cap

Jessica Lange. Photo: Bruce Glikas/WireImage

We tell ourselves stories in order to live … and Jessica Lange is thriving. The actress says she’s starring in a new film adaptation of Joan Didion’s The Year of Magical Thinking in a recent USA Today profile. Literally no other information about the film is known — not the director, not the studio, not the screenwriter — except that it’s currently planning to shoot in “early 2025.†What we do know is that excitement for the project has kept Lange from retiring, which she would very much like to do. “I don’t have that drive you do when you’re young,†Lange told USA Today. “It’s still thrilling when I get onstage, but I also think, ‘Wouldn’t it be great if I could just sit up in the woods in my cabin? Maybe do some traveling?’†Seeing as she’s currently doing eight shows a week on Broadway in Mother Play, we understand the appeal of the cabin life. At the same time, the world is on life support and we need her now more than ever.

Jessica Lange Is Putting on Her Magical Thinking Cap