Their authenticity comes through,” Mueller explains. “The thing that is so powerful about singers like Patsy and Loretta is that their souls just come through. “It just doesn’t feel honest.” While both actresses spent countless hours studying their characters’ voices, they never pressured themselves into simply mimicking Cline and Lynn, choosing instead to try to inhabit the songs. “I find that there can be a huge disconnect if you are simply lip-synching to somebody else’s voice,” Hilty says. The film features both Mueller and Hilty performing their own renditions of the singers’ classic songs, something that they found extremely challenging and important. “To me it was about trying to find the essence of who these people were and then figuring our how that translate through you,” Mueller adds. Mueller, who watched “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” saw Sissy Spacek‘s Oscar-winning portrayal as rather freeing when it came to shaping her own performance. One of those portrayals was Jessica Lange‘s Oscar-nominated performance as Cline in “Sweet Dreams.” “I didn’t want to base my performance off of somebody else’s guesses,” Hilty argues.

While Mueller absorbed a number of sources for her portrayal of Lynn, including the Oscar-winning “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” Hilty chose to avoid other portrayals as she researched Cline. SEE Emmys 2020 exclusive: A&E, History and Lifetime categories In our exclusive video interview with Hilty and Mueller ( watch above), the theater veterans talk about inhabiting the roles of these two legendary artists. Both Hilty and Mueller were nominated for Best Movie/Mini Actress at the Critics’ Choice Awards for their performances. That relationship is portrayed in the Lifetime film “ Patsy and Loretta,” starring Hilty as Cline and Tony winner Jessie Mueller as Lynn. “They were kind of like peanut butter and jelly,” says Megan Hilty about the relationship between country music legends Patsy Cline and Loretta Lynn.

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