{"id":385832,"date":"2026-01-03T17:28:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385832\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T17:28:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T17:28:07","slug":"tommy-lee-jones-on-daughter-victoria-jones-death","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/385832\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Lee Jones on Daughter Victoria Jones&#8217; Death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In fact, his bond with Victoria was one of the inspirations behind The Homesman, a Western exploring sexism in the 1800s that he wrote, directed and starred in.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;My grandmother, my mother, my wife, and my daughter are all women,&#8221;\u00a0Tommy Lee, who married Dawn Laurel-Jones in 2001, told costar Meryl Streep in a 2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.interviewmagazine.com\/film\/tommy-lee-jones\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Interview<\/a> magazine conversation. &#8220;A lot of my dear friends, yourself included, are women. I am just interested in how they feel, and what\u2019s wrong. And if you want to know what\u2019s wrong today, looking at what was wrong yesterday is a pretty good place to start.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There\u2019s an undeniable tradition of sexism in this country that ties into the move westward by people of European descent, and different ways of looking at Manifest Destiny on the west side of the Mississippi River,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;So those struggles and what made them a struggle is of interest to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In fact, his bond with Victoria was one of the inspirations behind The Homesman, a Western exploring sexism&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":385833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[236,88],"class_list":{"0":"post-385832","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-celebrities","9":"tag-entertainment"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=385832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/385832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/385833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=385832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=385832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=385832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}