“Back in action” star Glenn Close is enjoying life in Bozeman, Montana.
During an interview with the Wall Street JournalClose explained that she has adjusted to the lifestyle since moving to Montana in 2019.
“Today I live in Bozeman, Mont. All my siblings live here. My modest 1892 brick home has a porch where I can see the mountains and say hello to the neighbors,” she told the outlet.
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Glenn Close left New York City for Montana in 2019. (Getty Images)
After several years working in Big Sky Country, Close is looking to expand her real estate portfolio.
“I’m building a bigger house about half an hour outside of town,” she said.
“Today I live in Bozeman, Mont. All my brothers and sisters live here. My modest 1892 brick house has a porch where I can see the mountains and say hello to the neighbors.”
‘It will be my Zen farm and our family retreat. There will be a stone house at the back, which reminds me of the best years of my childhood.’
In 2021, Close spoke Mountain outlaw about leaving New York City for Montana a year before the world paused due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
“I shot a movie in Canada in the winter. It was fun and beautiful, but I was homesick and I… never felt homesick.
Glenn Close is building her family’s “sanctuary” in Montana. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
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“Not only is Bozeman my home, but I couldn’t wait to get back here. When I left to go to that job, Jessie and Tina were there to see me off at the airport. It was so great. have come to realize how much I fear leaving,” Close told the outlet at the time.
Close’s sister, Jessie, lives in the house next door, and her sister, Tina, lives in a nearby property. Close’s two brothers, Alexander and Tambu Misoki, also live in Montana.
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“When I was little, I found solace in nature, and that has never changed,” Close says. “I’ve always tried to create the same potential for my family, especially now that I’m coming back here and being with my siblings and having a piece of land outside the city that will always be there for my daughter and her children.”
“That’s my legacy,” she added.
Close explained at the time that her years in Montana were the “best” years of her life.
“You can wake up at four in the morning and think you’ve made every wrong decision in your life, and then you stay awake until dawn, which is an incredibly deadly place to be,” the award-winning actress said. “I feel incredibly lucky. I think these will be the best years of my life.”
Close calls the past six years living in Montana the “best” years of her life. (Steve Granitz/FilmMagic)
Close’s life hasn’t always been so peaceful. The ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ star was infamously a member of the Moral Re-Armament cult.
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During Close’s interview with WSJ, she explained that her “world changed” when she was seven, and her family joined the cult. It was not until 1970, when Close was 22, that she broke away from the sect.
Moral rearmament, also known as MRA, was a religious movement that began in the 1920s when a man named Frank Buchman began evangelizing and became successful. Some of the beliefs he expressed were the importance of surrendering oneself to a higher power and practicing solitary silence. Over the years he attracted thousands of followers from a number of countries.
Glenn Close was a member of the Moral Re-Armament cult from the age of seven until he was 22. (AP Photo/Chris Pizzello, Swimming Pool)
When World War II loomed over the planet, Buchman decided to name the group Moral Re-Armament, explaining that he intended to use spirituality to unite the world and bring peace. The group’s critics mocked its simplistic vision, but others fell in love with it. One of those people was Glenn Close’s father.
After joining the group, he left to work in Africa, while Close and her siblings were posted to MRA headquarters in Switzerland. In a 2014 interview with The Hollywood Reporterthe actress described the strict rules and manipulation that took place behind the scenes.
“You weren’t supposed to do anything or feel guilty about an unnatural desire,” she explained. “If you talk to someone who was in a group that basically dictates how you should live, what you should say and how you should feel, from the age of seven until the time you… From the age of 22 it has a big impact on you. It’s something you have to overcome (consciously), because all your trigger points are.”
Frank Buckman discusses moral rearmament with legendary actress Mae West in 1939. (Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone)
In a 2021 interview with Prince Harry and Oprah Winfrey, she explained, saying: “It was really terrible. We were so broken up. It’s amazing that something you experienced at such an early stage in your life still has such a potentially destructive effect. I I think that’s a childhood trauma.
“Everyone spoke the same things, and there were a lot of rules — a lot of control. Because of the way we were raised, anything you thought you were doing for yourself was considered selfish,” she explained.
In 1970, when Close was 22, she left the group but was still struggling.
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“I would have dreams, because I didn’t go to a psychiatrist or anything,” she told The Hollywood Reporter. “I had these dreams, and they started with betrayal, a feeling of betrayal, and then they developed into me being able to look at these people and say, ‘You’re wrong. You’re wrong.’ And the last incarnation of those dreams was that I could calmly get up and walk away. And then I didn’t have them anymore.’
Glenn Close as Ginny, Jamie Demetriou as Nigel, Cameron Diaz as Emily and Jamie Foxx as Matt in ‘Back In Action’. (John Wilson/Netflix © 2024)
Close continues to perform. Her latest project, ‘Back in Action’, includes Jamie Foxx Cameron Diaz and Kyle Chandler. The Netflix film will debut on the platform on January 17.
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Fox News Digital’s Emily Trainham contributed to this report.
