Jessica Chastain
Jessica Chastain Recalls When Taylor Swift Made Her a Personalized Breakup Playlist
It’s been more than a decade since Jessica Chastain first met Taylor Swift, but she’ll never forget when the pop star helped her get through a breakup. On Friday’s episode of The Tonight Show, the Memory star recalled meeting the “Cruel Summer” singer-songwriter at the Met Gala in 2011. “It was like the first year […]
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Peter Sarsgaard on How His Bond With Jessica Chastain Began After Their Movie Wrapped
Peter Sarsgaard’s role in Memory leans heavy, at least on paper. The actor plays Saul, a man struggling to come to terms with his early onset dementia. He meets a former classmate, played by Jessica Chastain, who is struggling herself — she was raped by older boys as a child and is 13 years into […]
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Michel Franco’s ‘Memory,’ With Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain, Sells Wide
The Match Factory has closed deals across most of Europe and much of Asia for Memory, the new film from acclaimed Mexican director Michel Franco. The drama, starring Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain, premiered at the Venice Film Festival this year, winning Sarsgaard the prize for best actor. Match Factory inked deals for the film […]
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Jessica Chastain Plays Damaged Single Mother in ‘Memory’ Trailer
Jessica Chastain plays a social worker and single mother whose structured life is thrown into chaos when a young man dealing with dementia, played by Peter Sarsgaard, follows her home from their high school reunion in the trailer for Memory, which dropped Tuesday. Michel Franco’s austere family drama about trauma and connection has Chastain playing […]
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Peter Sarsgaard and Jessica Chastain Enter Oscar Race as ‘Memory’ Is Bought, Set for December Release (Exclusive)
Just as it was beginning to look like the dance card for this season’s Oscar race was full, the release date for a highly acclaimed film that was not expected to drop until 2024 has been set for December 2023. The Hollywood Reporter has learned that the North American distribution rights of Michel Franco‘s Memory, […]
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‘Memory’ Director Talks Indie Film Amid Dual Strikes: “We’re Hoping This Makes Us Stronger”
Mexican auteur Michel Franco welcomed being able to have Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard at his side for the North American premiere of Memory at the Toronto Film Festival on Tuesday night. “I’m very lucky to have my actors with me in this difficult time, but we’re hoping independent cinema will keep finding its place […]
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‘Memory’ Review: Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard Are Riveting as Broken People Fumbling for Connection in Michel Franco’s Moving Drama
The Mexican auteur’s Brooklyn-set third English-language film also features Josh Charles, Merritt Wever, Jessica Harper and promising newcomer Brooke Timber.
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‘George & Tammy’ Costume Designer on Finding George Jones’ Sartorial Take on Las Vegas, Discovering Tammy Wynette’s Actual Vintage Dresses
Emmy-nominated costume designer Mitchell Travers didn’t have the luxury to simply re-create the real suits and gowns worn by country music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette for Showtime’s limited series George & Tammy. In fact, the stature of actor Michael Shannon, who has earned an Emmy nom for his performance as Jones, was an […]
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Guest Essay: How ‘George & Tammy’ Captured My Parents as Human Beings First, Musical Icons Second
I first heard about George & Tammy shortly after my memoir, The Three of Us: Growing Up With Tammy and George, came out in 2011, and I did have some initial concerns about how my parents would be portrayed in a television series based on their lives. Would the show pursue a line of honesty […]
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Jessica Chastain Says Oscar Isaac Friendship “Has Never Been Quite the Same” Since ‘Scenes From a Marriage’
Despite being longtime friends, Jessica Chastain shared that her friendship with Oscar Isaac hasn’t been the same since the duo starred together in HBO’s limited series Scenes From a Marriage. In an interview with Vanity Fair’s Little Gold Men podcast published Wednesday and conducted prior to the actors strike, Chastain reflected on how filming Scenes From […]
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Jessica Chastain, Jeremy Allen White, Dominique Fishback and More on Their First Emmy Nominations: “We Weren’t Dreaming This Big”
[These interviews were conducted before the actors strike.] Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy, Showtime) Best Actress in a Limited Series The first time Chastain went to an awards ceremony — the 2012 Golden Globes, where she was nominated for The Help — Josh Brolin approached her and suggested she play country singer Tammy Wynette in […]
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Rev. Stephen Pieters, Longtime HIV/AIDS Activist Portrayed in ‘The Eyes of Tammy Faye,’ Dies at 70
Rev. Stephen Pieters, the influential HIV/AIDS activist and survivor whose televised interview with Tammy Faye Bakker in 1985 transformed him into a national spokesperson in the battle against the disease, has died. He was 70. Pieters died Saturday in Los Angeles after being hospitalized two weeks earlier with an infection, publicist Harlan Boll announced. Pieters […]
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