Tommy Lee Jones isn’t exactly a red carpet regular. So when the 80-year-old Oscar winner showed up solo Wednesday at the Season 2 premiere of FX’s“The Lowdown”in Austin, Texas, it caught everyone’s attention. Dressed in a blue button-up, black blazer, and jeans, Jones smiled for photographers before posing with co-stars Ethan Hawke and Ryan Kiera Armstrong.
On the show, Jones plays Lee Raybon Sr., the estranged father of Hawke’s journalist character, in the Tulsa-set crime drama. Season 2 premieres October 14, and it marks another high-profile TV chapter for Jones, whose recent film work includes“Finestkind”and“The Burial”opposite Jamie Foxx.
The outing also carries a quieter weight. Jones has largely stayed out of the public eye since the January death of his daughter Victoria Jones, 34, whose cause of death was ruled an accidental cocaine overdose. Seeing him back on a carpet, smiling with his cast, feels like a small but meaningful moment for a legend who rarely gives us any.
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