Now, it seems to have worked out just fine, in that I can go between the mediums with reasonable regularity.
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"For a long time," Lithgow explains, "it was a matter of when I could fit a movie role into my schedule, because I was concentrating on working in the theater. He starred in Broadway revivals of "Requiem for a Heavyweight" and "The Front Page," and he has also worked in such feature films as the currently shooting "Stiffs" (with Randy Quaid and Teri Garr) and Steven Spielberg's production of "Harry and the Hendersons," which is set to open nationwide next Friday, June 5. Lithgow's own priorities also seem to be straight, since he has moved with regularity between TV, movies and the live theater in recent years. The way he directs the characters are as important as the issue involved, and I think that shows he has his priorities right." He's a director with a real social conscience, and he really believes in television, so his involvement interested me immediately. "We have a wonderful working relationship," claims Lithgow, "and we've become real good friends. Yet another factor that drew Lithgow to "Baby Girl Scott" was director John Korty, who also guided the actor through "Resting Place." Korty directed the telemovie that largely set the standard for the form, 1974's "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," for which he won an Emmy. "We've acted together in two plays, that movie and this TV-movie, and I also directed her in a play.
"This is the fifth time we've worked together," Lithgow says of his association with Hurt. the film that gained him wide notoriety (and an Oscar nomination) as Roberta Muldoon, the former football star who had a sex-change operation. One was the chance to work again with Mary Beth Hurt, with whom he worked in the 1982 movie "The World According to Garp". There were other reasons as well that Lithgow wanted to do the project. I wanted to play this part badly, just because I felt I was the right person for it." My kids are still little, so the whole experience of their babyhood is still very fresh in my mind. "I felt that I had a greater sense of identification (with the character) than usual, maybe greater than a lot of other actors might have, simply because I have children. Nevertheless, his own family is what primarily motivated Lithgow to take the role.
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