{"id":478276,"date":"2025-12-29T19:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478276\/"},"modified":"2025-12-29T19:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-29T19:04:13","slug":"diane-lane-made-a-film-you-likely-didnt-see-she-wants-to-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/478276\/","title":{"rendered":"Diane Lane Made a Film You Likely Didn\u2019t See. She Wants to Change That"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tDiane Lane<\/a> hadn\u2019t shot a film since the pandemic until Anniversary<\/a> came her way \u2014 a break that turned out to be unfortunately, eerily appropriate for the dystopian thriller, which covers five years and examines an American family\u2019s unraveling amid the rise of an authoritarian regime. Directed by Jan Komasa (the Oscar-nominated Corpus Christi) and co-starring Kyle Chandler<\/a>, the film pinpoints pockets of modern radicalization before imagining what might happen if they start seizing real political power. Lane\u2019s matriarch, a Georgetown professor facing down a former student\u2019s rebellion, starkly contends with that notion.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt might seem like juicy fodder for a polarized cultural moment, but in conversation a few months after the movie\u2019s brief theatrical release, Lane admits with some weariness that Anniversary wasn\u2019t able to make much noise at all. (It\u2019s currently available for digital rental.) Whether that has more to do with the struggles of marketing such a polemical drama, or the brutal current realities of the independent film<\/a> landscape, remains to be seen. But for Lane, an Oscar nominee who more recently netted an Emmy nod for her turn in Feud: Capote vs. The Swans<\/a>, this rare big-screen leading role is worth talking about and celebrating \u2014 even with all the challenges that come with it.<\/p>\n

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\t\t\t\t\tKyle Chandler and Diane Lane in \u2018Anniversary\u2019 <\/p>\n

\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tOwen Behan<\/p>\n

\n\tHow have you experienced the release of <\/strong>Anniversary<\/strong>?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve had multiple responses that I\u2019ve never had to this film. I had people reaching out to me saying, \u201cGee, I know you had a film coming out. Where is it? Where can I see it?\u201d That was a unique experience for me. (Laughs.) I had people even in Germany when it was over there like, \u201cIt says it\u2019s new, and it\u2019s playing at one showing in the middle of the day. Is it an art film?\u201d I said, \u201cI don\u2019t know. I mean, it certainly encompasses some art within the story\u2026\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIt balanced out with getting these amazing texts from people who I didn\u2019t know, had my phone number in very high places. \u201cThank you for this movie. It\u2019s important. As a human and as an American and as a person who has been in this industry for a long time, yay for you because of this.\u201d It doesn\u2019t line up very often like that, as we all know. Access is granted within our industry in a different way than the gen pop.<\/p>\n

\n\tThat dynamic you\u2019re talking about, of people not knowing how to see movies they know have been released \u2014 that must feel strange.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tIt\u2019s amazing. I didn\u2019t even know there was a thing called \u201cThe Store\u201d on Apple TV. I didn\u2019t know about those little icons on the left of my screen and what gems live in there, because you wouldn\u2019t know. That\u2019s a flaw in the design, in my opinion. There was a little sign store in my small town in Georgia where I lived, and it said on their sign, \u201cA business with no sign is a sign of no business.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tI\u2019ve lived in many different zip codes, and I know this country pretty well, even though I live between two realities. It\u2019s interesting to get to see the fact that some people have access to things and some people don\u2019t. I\u2019ll leave it there on that topic because that is an umbrella of truth, for a lot of ingredients under that umbrella.<\/p>\n

\n\tWhen I saw the movie, it stood out for a few reasons: You have a great part, and it\u2019s got its finger on the pulse in a pretty terrifying way.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWe thought we were making something that was a lot closer to fiction. We showed disappearing people \u2014 though I guess in our film, it\u2019s dated because their faces are exposed. It\u2019s just been very affirming as to why I said yes to the film. Jan Komasa is an auteur, and he\u2019s allowed to experiment with his palette. This was not a money gig, as they say, and convincing people wasn\u2019t hard because the material allowed us to feel as though we were going to have American fears seen and American pain seen \u2014 the fractiousness that we endured was dialed up because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\n\tEvery actor was fully utilized in their capacity, and that\u2019s what I love about working for Jan. He allows you to find where your 10 is on your dial. You\u2019re not offered that all the time. I was grateful for the tension that we could bring, how to make that palpable, the commencement of us meeting and convening in Ireland.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYour dial gets to 10 with an incredible harrowing scream. How did you get there?<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tYou only have one of those in you. I\u2019m not a trained screamer. I didn\u2019t go to RADA \u2014 I did not have the opportunity to properly train as an actor in terms of, if this were a theater piece, I would not have done that. I would\u2019ve known how to make it sustainable. But this is not a marathon, this was a sprint.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is not a linear story as people might be rightfully anticipating when they go to a film. I always wondered if the title was going to be helpful or the opposite of helpful because when you have an anniversary of something, it implies a level of revisiting the question: \u201cHow are we doing compared to five years ago?\u201d for example. This film covers five years or so, the genesis part of it for the story was that Jan noticed his family changing by looking at photographs over time and before people changed \u2014 and hence the change in the film, which is called \u201cThe Change.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tSome people were upset that we didn\u2019t describe what that is. Well, excuse me: Do you bring nothing when you sit down in a theater or your sofa or wherever you watch? You don\u2019t bring your experience and feel the parallels in your life? If not, I don\u2019t know what to say \u2014 perhaps pick a different genre of storytelling. I think it\u2019s nice to feel seen in terms of the emotions that we hold at bay by being polite, and families are not polite. That\u2019s the truth of it in a lot of families.<\/p>\n

\n\tThis is the first film you\u2019ve shot since the pandemic. You\u2019ve done some TV work, but given what you were talking about, the promise of this role, was it a matter of waiting for the right thing to come along?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tWhen you cover a lot of ground as a working person, other times you have to allow for \u2014 like, you\u2019re a tank needing to refill your reserves, to be replenished. I had a lot of life changes that I\u2019ve been straddling and living, so I\u2019m enjoying the way that informs my choices. Sometimes you get a case of the \u201cWho the hell do I think I am?\u201d and then other times you feel like, \u201cI like a little sugar in my bowl.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tWell, and then there\u2019s that problem of visibility you were talking about, when you do get that.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI just watched Jay Kelly<\/a> and I enjoyed it. Awards season is such an interesting time because you get this flood of everybody\u2019s best or proudest work, whether it\u2019s a corporation or an individual. I get it is a crowded field, and we\u2019re saying, \u201cHey, we\u2019re over here!\u201d We\u2019re over here standing at a point in time and saying, \u201cWe just want you to know this film exists.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tYou were an executive producer on this project. What does that look like on a tight indie like this?\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tI don\u2019t know how else you can convince other actors to come on at the same price you are. (Laughs.) It is kind of funny that I wanted them to know that I am not gouging the baby. This is all for love from all of us. If you like the material, I\u2019m the first one on board. I\u2019ll carry the load and I\u2019ll promote the thing. I\u2019ve never put myself in this position before, so I\u2019m a little sweaty, but it is a good kind of sweaty. I like it. I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s addicting or not. I\u2019ll let you know. It might be a one-off. I don\u2019t know if I\u2019m going to matriculate into other capacities in this industry, perhaps because my father got his wish \u2014 I\u2019m a lifer, and that\u2019s OK. It\u2019s fun, and I love the people that I get to work and play with. Sometimes you get to be in something that you really care about, and that\u2019s a blessing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Diane Lane hadn\u2019t shot a film since the pandemic until Anniversary came her way \u2014 a break that…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":478277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[18485,92918,171,216670,125359,74367,92920,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-478276","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-anniversary","9":"tag-diane-lane","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-feud-capote-vs-the-swans","12":"tag-independent-film","13":"tag-jay-kelly","14":"tag-kyle-chandler","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115804416563613357","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=478276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/478277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=478276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=478276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=478276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}