http://www.westword.com/Issues/2005-06-30/music/music.html[...]Still, she can't entirely dodge related subjects, since she makes her big-screen acting debut this November in Walk the Line, a biopic about the Cashes, with Joaquin Phoenix playing Johnny to Reese Witherspoon's June. And Lynne? She portrays Carrie Cash, Johnny's mom.
The role is a significant one, and since the flick's action extends from 1935 to 1968, Lynne was required to age more than three decades by its conclusion. This would have been a challenge for any actor, let alone a novice whose most prominent previous credit came in 1991, when she appeared as herself in Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind, a television movie co-starring Willie Nelson and directed by Bill Bixby, TV's Bruce Banner. Nevertheless, she actively sought out the part and won it after casting agents were impressed by a videotape of her performing a scene.
The weather during filming, which took place in Nashville and outlying areas, was often sweltering, and a day of torrential rain turned one set into a swamp that practically swallowed every vehicle in the vicinity. She shrugs off the inconveniences, though. The makeup that transformed her into a 69-year old "wasn't that big of a deal. They just put glue on your face, tie your hair up high, and you go do it." As for the costumes, which were authentic from top to bottom, "they felt a little weird. My character had to wear this cone-shaped bra thing. If I wear a bra, it's rare, so that definitely wasn't comfortable, and the nylons were awfully hot -- and I don't wear those in real life, either. But they helped me get into character, so I'm glad they did it right.
"I think I really knew who she was," Lynne says of Carrie. "There wasn't that much information on her, but we know she was a very stoic woman who had a Christian upbringing. She learned to sing in church taught her children to sing in church, and looked out for her family, which, during Johnny's childhood, was very, very poor. It wasn't easy, and that's something I understand." [...]