TV roles better for women than in film, actress Jessica Lange says

There are fewer roles for women in films today than in the 80s, Oscar-winning actress Jessica Lange has said, as she claims the best script writing is now on television.

Lange said her generation of actresses had 'more than enough [roles] for all of us'

Lange, who rose to fame in the late 1970s and went on to win two Oscars, said her generation of actresses had “more than enough [roles] for all of us”.

Nowadays, she added, a “great part for women in a real story” only comes up “every once in a while” on the big screen.

She has now played the lead role in television series American Horror Story: Asylum, portraying a failed beauty queen from small town Virginia who travelled to Hollywood to make it big.

Lange, who starred in Tootsie, Frances and Blue Sky, told fashion magazine LOVE she now believes more people saw her in HBO film Grey Gardens because it was screened on television.

When asked whether there was anything “demeaning” in appearing on television after an acclaimed film and stage career, she said: “No, for a couple of reasons.