![]() ![]() “The only bad thing about Redford is that he doesn’t like to do love scenes, so the fact that he didn’t look forward to those always made me sad. In 2014, Fonda told Vanity Fair’s Krista Smith that of all the co-stars she’s had over her career, the one she really wants to work with again is Redford. In the final interview before his death, with the DCPA’s NewsCenter, Haruf said the story is inspired by his story with his wife, Cathy Haruf. ![]() The Theatre Company previously commissioned and presented Haruf’s entire Plainsong Trilogy, which included Eventide and Benediction, in their world-premiere stagings.Īs his other novels were, Our Souls at Night is set in a fictional town on the Eastern Colorado Plains. The sale of the movie rights put the DCPA Theatre Company’s plans to adapt Our Souls at Night for the stage on hold. The film was screened last night in Colorado Springs. The film was largely filmed in Colorado Springs at the home of Colorado College professor David Hendrickson. Weber, who also wrote Paper Towns, The Fault in Our Stars, (500) Days of Summer and The Spectacular Now. The screenplay is written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Eagle eyes will notice an uncredited appearance by Su Teatro Artistic Director Tony Garcia. Leigh, who is an avid animal-rights supporter in real life, plays, appropriately enough, an animal-shelter worker who is paid a visit by no less than Redford and Fonda. Below right: Fonda and Redford in ‘Barefoot in the Park’ 50 years ago.) (Pictured above right: Jane Fonda and Robert Redford in ‘Our Souls at Night,’ directed by Ritesh Batra. “I don’t think that’s going to happen, but I’d like to think that, somewhere, my drama teacher is smiling.” “My junior-high drama teacher wrote, ‘To the next Robert Redford’ in my yearbook at the end of 7th grade,” Deshane wrote on his Facebook page. Colorado theatre and film audiences will recognize John Ashton (Vintage Theatre’s August: Osage County), Jordan Leigh (DCPA’s upcoming First Date) and film actor Brock DeShane, who has a small small part as a ballroom dancer at the Brown Palace Hotel in Denver. The film also features such luminaries as Bruce Dern and Judy Greer. Scott calls the couple “neighbors with benefits.” And he calls the new movie: “As gentle as a moth’s wing, as soft and sweet as the flesh of a marshmallow.” In Our Souls at Night, they play widowed neighbors who strike up a romantic relationship, hoping to make the most of the time they have left. In the classic Neil Simon comedy, the pair starred as young newlyweds. Our Souls at Night nicely bookends the Hollywood superstars’ screen lives 50 years after Barefoot in the Park debuted in 1967. It stars Jane Fonda and Robert Redford, and features a bevy of local actors. The film version of Our Souls at Night, the final book by acclaimed Colorado novelist Kent Haruf, was released today on Netflix. Gentle film caps Kent Haruf’s career, reunites Fonda and Redford, and employs Colorado film and theatre artists ‘Our Souls at Night’ reunites Robert Redford and Jane Fonda nearly 50 years after ‘Barefoot in the Park.’ Here they visit an animal-shelter adopter played by DCPA actor Jordan Leigh. ![]()
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