![]() ![]() "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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