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Tony Award winner Mary-Louise Parker will star in a Broadway revival of Henrik Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler this winter, produced by Roundabout Theatre Company. Featuring a new adaptation by Christopher Shinn, the play will begin previews on January 6 and open on January 25 at the American Airlines Theatre, directed by Ian Rickson.In Hedda Gabler, newlywed Hedda Tesman finds herself bored with married life to her scholar husband, George. As the daughter of General Gabler, she had grown accustomed to the freedom and exciting social world of her father’s home. When her rival, Mrs. Elvsted, reenters her life with Hedda’s former lover, Eilert Lovberg in tow, Hedda sets out on a shocking path of destruction that affects the lives of everyone around her.
Mary-Louise Parker first caught the eyes of lesbian/bisexual viewers in the 1991 film Fried Green Tomatoes when she played Ruth Jamison, the femme who stole the heart of tomboy Idgie Threadgoode (Mary Stuart Masterson). Although the film version de-gayed much of the Fannie Flagg novel it was based on, Parker and Masterson still managed to convey their characters’ love and attraction to each other, making the film a lesbian classic.
Since then, Parker has appeared in many films, including most recently The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford. She has also signed on to the independent film Les Passages, where her character falls for a woman played by Julie Delpy. On television, the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning Parker has starred in the HBO miniseries Angels in America, NBC’s The West Wing and Showtime’s Weeds, which is currently in its fourth season.
Last week during the TCA press tour in Los Angeles, she chatted briefly with AfterEllen.com about the status of Les Passages, the de-gaying of Fried Green Tomatoes, and a fun new web video in which she gives advice to her lesbian friend on how to pick up girls.
AfterEllen.com: Can you tell me a little about the role you’ll be playing in Les Passages?
Mary-Louise Parker: Oh, you know, that doesn’t have funding!
AE: So it’s sort of stuck right now?
MLP: Yeah, I want to do that movie, but it doesn’t have funding, so it’s not imminent. Someone needs to fund it. I would be happy to do it, but it’s not funded. (more…)
Agrestic’s Destruction Started Right Here: Explains Weeds creator Jenji Kohan, “A year ago at the TCA’s at the little snack table, I whispered to Mary-Louise, ‘How would you feel if we burned it all down?’ And she was psyched. The truth is the writers’ room was getting restless…and I didn’t want them to get tired and leave.”
Adds Mary-Louise Parker (who was the only panelist all week to sip on a caffeinated beverage during the session—so Nancy!): “I think this season was the best season, season four. I think it was a brilliant and really brave idea. I love it.”
Fun Fact: Kohan says that, in the initial pitch, HBO passed on Weeds, because “they didn’t want to have a show with kids.” Tootally understandable, since Weeds is all about puppies and flowers and cotton candy and a better fit for Pax.
It’s not a good sign when a movie, even a TV movie, is filmed and then sits around before it sees the light of day. This film, according to the trade publication Variety, was completed in 2005. It stars Mary-Louise Parker, Tom Skerritt and Betty Buckley, who aren’t too shabby when it comes to acting. Variety says CBS management changes prompted the delay. In any case, the film is based on a book by A. Manette Ansay. The book was an Oprah Book Club selection. Parker plays a teacher who is forced to move in with her in-laws. Let’s just say it’s not that cozy when they move in. I’m sure the actors will elevate what sounds like a dour story. Saturday, 8 p.m. CBS
Actress Mary-Louise Parker still gets lost on New York streets - and hates it when people ask her for directions.
The Weeds star has lived in the city’s West Village for years, but is filled with fear when lost strangers ask her for advice on how to get to their destination.
She tells New York gossip column PageSix, “I panic when people on the street ask for directions.
“Where they need to go might only be a few blocks away, but it’s as if they’re asking, ‘How do you get to Croatia from here?’”
Mary-Louise Parker tried to get out of this interview. She said so halfway through. Not in a confrontational way, just matter-of-factly, as if she were saying she hadn’t ordered those fries but had started to eat them anyway.
Interviews, however, come with newsworthy events, and it is worth reporting that Ms. Parker is back on the New York stage after four years’ absence — her longest stretch away from the theater since she was 17. She is starring in “Dead Man’s Cell Phone,” Sarah Ruhl’s new play, opening Tuesday night at Playwrights Horizons. Kathleen Chalfant also stars, and Anne Bogart is the director. (more…)
On-again, off-again couple Jeffrey Dean Morgan and Mary-Louise Parker appear to be back on ? as in, really on.
The pair are engaged, New York’s Daily News is reporting, saying that the two, who appear as husband and wife on the Showtime series Weeds, have been telling friends of their intention to marry.
When reached by PEOPLE, a rep for Morgan had no comment on the report.
Morgan, 41, and Parker, 43, were first seen together at a party in New York in December 2006 and then went on to shoot down frequent reports that they weren’t getting along or had even parted ways.
Last March, they attended the opening night of the Broadway musical Curtains along with Parker’s then-3-year-old son William ? whose father is actor Billy Crudup, whom Parker dated from 1996 to November 2003.
In June 2007, Parker and Morgan really did split (”It just didn’t work out,” said Morgan, “wrong time in both our lives”), but by last December they were spotted together again, this time at a movie premiere.
Asked that night what he thought about his date, Morgan told PEOPLE, “What about her?” as he raised an eyebrow and flashed a sly grin.
Not that son William and Morgan are the only ones in Parker’s life. In September, her rep exclusively confirmed to PEOPLE that the actress had adopted a baby girl from Africa.
