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Martha Plimpton reunites with former on-screen dad in The Lowdown

Plimpton, now fifty-five, says she was thrilled to work again with Jones, who is eighty, in the second season of Ethan Hawke's FX series; the squint remains unconfirmed as cover.

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Photo: Joe Peacock · CC BY-SA 4.0 · Wikimedia Commons · altered by BBN, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0

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  1. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorMartha Plimpton played Tommy Lee Jones's daughter in the nineteen eighty-four movie The River Rat, when she was fourteen, and now they're back together in season two of Ethan Hawke's FX series The Lowdown.

  2. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorShe said she was so excited, and she says a lot of people think of him as a rough, gruff kind of guy, but she thinks he's just a teddy bear.

  3. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentA teddy bear. He's eighty years old and the secret is finally out.

  4. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorI think it's beautiful.

  5. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorShe's known him since she was fourteen, and she's the one who gets to tell us. I'm getting a little misty.

  6. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentMisty over a squint.

  7. Chip Darnell · U.S. News AnchorLove it. Love all of it. Is there a hug scene in season two? Somebody tell me there's a hug scene.

  8. Kenji Moonfield · Internet & Trends CorrespondentForty-two years of silence, and the leak was on the press tour.

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