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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson" data-source="post: 222990" data-attributes="member: 5079">Yes.&nbsp; When the casting was announced, I was very skeptical of Sarandon but thought Lange would be great.&nbsp; Other than being prettier than Davis ever was, Sarandon was remarkable in the role.&nbsp; Lange, unfortunately, didn&#039;t really work as Crawford.&nbsp; A performance like this has to exist on two planes: the impersonation and the acting (i.e., portrayal of emotion, etc).&nbsp; Dunaway did a remarkable impersonation of Crawford but her acting was atrocious.&nbsp; Lange didn&#039;t get the impersonation at all; she neither looked nor sounded much like Joan.&nbsp; I give Jessica credit for &#039;aging&#039; naturally, but she looked too old to play Joan in most of the series.&nbsp; The writing for Joan was kind of sketchy, with an apparent effort to balance what Joan was probably really like, with an exaggerated sense of propriety and manners, and the post-MOMMIE DEAREST image of Joan as a raging bitch.&nbsp; With that, I think Jessica was able to at least carve out a version of Joan that semi-redeemed the damage MOMMIE DEAREST* did to Joan&#039;s image.But then FEUD, while fun to watch, was a whole lot of fiction built onto a questionable premise.*The movie.&nbsp; The damage done to Joan&#039;s image from the book was probably warranted, but the movie is junky, sensationalized fiction.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson, post: 222990, member: 5079"] Yes. When the casting was announced, I was very skeptical of Sarandon but thought Lange would be great. Other than being prettier than Davis ever was, Sarandon was remarkable in the role. Lange, unfortunately, didn't really work as Crawford. A performance like this has to exist on two planes: the impersonation and the acting (i.e., portrayal of emotion, etc). Dunaway did a remarkable impersonation of Crawford but her acting was atrocious. Lange didn't get the impersonation at all; she neither looked nor sounded much like Joan. I give Jessica credit for 'aging' naturally, but she looked too old to play Joan in most of the series. The writing for Joan was kind of sketchy, with an apparent effort to balance what Joan was probably really like, with an exaggerated sense of propriety and manners, and the post-MOMMIE DEAREST image of Joan as a raging bitch. With that, I think Jessica was able to at least carve out a version of Joan that semi-redeemed the damage MOMMIE DEAREST* did to Joan's image. But then FEUD, while fun to watch, was a whole lot of fiction built onto a questionable premise. *The movie. The damage done to Joan's image from the book was probably warranted, but the movie is junky, sensationalized fiction. [/QUOTE]

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