San Francisco Chronicle: S.F. native Orser opens dark door as director
By Peter Hartlaub, San Francisco Chronicle, Saturday, April 24, 2010
Jeanne Tripplehorn had no idea what Leland Orser’s screenplay was about. She only knew that her spouse of 10 years, a San Francisco native and established Hollywood actor for more than two decades, had decided to write and direct his first film.
“I read it when he was finished,” the actress remembers. “I didn’t know the subject matter – I didn’t know anything.”
The day Tripplehorn received the script was filled with emotions she still has trouble describing. Orser’s movie, “Morning,” is a moving account of a couple negotiating a bleak emotional wasteland in the days after the death of their only son – with parts for both Orser and Tripplehorn, who have an 8-year-old boy together. But the real shock was in the writing, which she said managed to surpass the high expectations that the “Big Love” actress had for her husband.
