‘Patsy & Loretta’ Trio Says The Duet Aspect Made The Story Sing – Contenders TV
Pete Hammond Awards Columnist/Chief Film CriticCountry music icons Loretta Lynn and the late Patsy Cline have both had separate big-screen features focusing on their lives, including Coal Miner’s Daughter which won Sissy Spacek a Best Actress Oscar as Lynn in 1981, and Sweet Dreams for which Jessica Lange was Oscar nominated for playing Cline.At Deadline’s Contenders Television virtual event, Neil Meron, who is executive producer of the Lifetime movie Patsy & Loretta, acknowledged the fact that singers’ stories have been told individually, but that the idea of doing a movie that focused on the unique friendship between the pair gave the filmmakers, which include director Callie Khouri, real license to do something different.