Soft-spoken yet serious, Chastain first captured the world’s attention at Cannes 2011 as the angelic mother in Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life. “That was something we joked about: The Chastain Curse,” she says with a laugh, which is easier to do now that her fortunes have reversed. If there was an excuse, she heard it: the director’s exhaustive editing, Miramax’s finances and plain distributor indecision all blocked her work from theaters. ![]() ![]() But Hollywood’s peculiarities and business largely kept them unseen, in postproduction limbo. (“I think she was right out of Juilliard,” Messina remembers. She graduated with her BFA in 2003, then made cameos in TV procedurals for several years while doing stage work, including a 2004 regional festival performance of The Cherry Orchard with Chris Messina and Michelle Williams. ![]() STORY: ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ Stars Jessica Chastain and Jason Clarke on Torture, Tears and 9/11Ĭhastain is 35, a petite redhead with sharp features who has seemingly appeared out of the blue. “What would you do if you were on a plane and someone started screaming?” she asks rhetorically, though perhaps not realizing that a yelp from her would attract cell phone photos, not the ire of the TSA.
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