Jessica Lange’s son, Samuel Walker Shepard, pushes 74-year-old actress in wheelchair during NYC outing
Jessica Lange enjoyed a wild ride courtesy of her son, Samuel Walker Shepard.
The musician spent Thursday casually pushing the “American Horror Story” star in a wheelchair during an afternoon stroll together in New York City.
Shepard, who is the son of Lange and late actor and playwright Sam Shepard, tried to keep a low profile with a baseball hat and his hood pulled up, but Lange, 74, was unmissable.
The outing is a rare sighting for the mother-son duo, as Samuel, 36, prefers to live life out of the spotlight.
Lange was spotted in the wheelchair last week while out and about with her “Thelma & Louise” co-star Susan Sarandon, but she was being pushed by an unknown woman.
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“Jessica is healthy and well; she is recovering from a leg injury she incurred at a dog park,” her spokesperson said in a statement to Page Six at the time.
Despite thinking about retiring from acting, the “Tootsie” actress served as an active participant during the SAG-AFTRA strike last year, frequently picketing with signs and T-shirts. She also has two movies in post-production, “Long Day’s Journey Into Night” and “Places, Please,” as well as one untitled Netflix project in the works.
It’s unclear what made her change her tune after sharing that she felt Hollywood was focusing only on profits instead of art.
“Creativity is secondary now to corporate profits,” she told the Telegraph in October 2023. “The emphasis becomes not on the art or the artist or the storytelling. It becomes about satisfying your stockholders. It diminishes the artist and the art of filmmaking.”
Lange cited big box office franchises such as comic book films as the death of the industry.
“They’ve sacrificed this art that we’ve been involved in … for the sake of profit. I don’t know if it’s because the filmmakers think that they can’t hold the attention of the audience anymore,” she continued.
“That kind of filmmaking drives me crazy.”
