Interview to Jessica Chainstain (🇫🇷)

  

"I'm not used to this", says Jessica Chastain sitting in the lobby of the Mercure hotel in New York, seeing how customers look at her. AND it does not surprise us. Six years ago, 18 movies, two Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe and $ 640 million at the box office, Jessica was a stage actress who had never made a movie at an age, 31, which many think about giving up on Hollywood. He grew up in the city of Sacramento (the capital of California), along with his mother chef and his firefighter stepfather; and she remembers that as a child she "went through the corridors of the school alone", until he found friends and confidence in acting classes.

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She was the first in the family to have higher education. She from the University of Sacramento she jumped to the prestigious Juilliard acting school in New York, thanks to the help of a sponsor who financed his stay there: the late Robin Williams.

Chastain never sought fame; her fame found her. More exactly, Al Pacino ("he's super, super funny"). He did it in 2006, when he hired her to play Salomé in the Oscar Wilde classic. Producers and directors then realized her talent and, in 2011, with Maids and Ladies came the nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Shortly after, it was the turn of Terrence Malick and The Tree of Life, along with Brad Pitt, a hit that took her to the Cannes Film Festival; a path that would culminate in 2013 with a Golden Globe for his role as a CIA agent hunting Osama bin Laden in The darkest night. But all this seems like the preamble to the fame that awaits him in the next few months. In addition to being on the bill with the sci-fi production Interstellar and The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Chastain is still pending the premiere of A Most Violent Year, a film where she plays a gangster's wife, played by Guatemalan Oscar Isaac.

In six years, your life has completely changed.

Three years! 2011 was when the movies (Maids and Ladies, Take Shelter, Coriolanus, Texas Killing Fields) were released.

Don't take it the wrong way, but it's crazy: to participate in these films and to get two Oscar nominations so quickly, it is unheard of.

And, even more, being already in his thirties. So many things have changed so fast.

And, even more, being already in his thirties. So many things have changed so fast.

Do you think it would have been different if you had been 19 years old?

If I had been 19 and the attention I have now, it would have been a real disaster. Very expensive dinners and people serving you champagne ... All the things we criticize those who are 19 years old, I would have done them. It is an age when you are supposed to make mistakes, not older. The problem is that now everything is published on the internet. I'm glad I had time to find out who I am in private.

This nicely introduces my next question about your courtship and the fact that you don't want to talk about it. (Chastain dates fashion entrepreneur Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo). I respect your decision but can you explain why?
I think it is important not to talk about it. If everything goes ahead, it will be part of any conversation. But in the meantime, I don't want to add pressure to something so personal and beautiful. He doesn't go with me. In fact, I have never posted a selfie. I'm too shy to say "look how good I look", or take a photo of myself in a bikini ...

You use the SN to talk about things that concern you. You recently talked about a video where some girls asked if they were pretty.

It is devastating. He broke my heart. Puberty is a bad time for everyone. Enough of complexes. I remember when I was eight years old: I had short red hair and lots of freckles. Thank God there was no internet, because every day at school they told me that I was ugly. Now those girls have to deal with that at school and on the internet. My life changed when I started acting, like on the Glee series. You can't find your site and suddenly one day you find a group of people who understand you.

You found yours thanks to Robin Williams. After he passed away, you said he "changed my life" by funding your acting studies. How did her death affect you?

Well, I'm going to do whatever I can to help the To Write Love on Her Arms foundation, who works on suicide prevention. They visit colleges to talk about depression, bullying, and suicide; the latter is the third leading cause of death in adolescents.

How do you live fashion?

For me, fashion is not just "my butt looks good in this dress." For me, fashion is like going to the museum. Designers are artists. Armani has made dresses that look like paintings and Comme des Garçons, sculptures. I love Sarah Burton McQueen and wild designers like Riccardo Tisci from Givenchy.

I have noticed that you criticize Hollywood on behalf of your peers, like when you said that Scarlett Johansson, Contrary to his male Marvel counterparts, he didn't have his movie. Are you committed to the cause?

I am very supportive of women in Hollywood. I love Meryl Streep. She is an amazing actress. But I think she is the only actress her age who has managed to impose herself. I would love to see Jessica Lange in a movie again, do you understand?

You've built a reputation for the roles you've played. Do you feel responsibility when you play these women?

I liked my role in The Tree of Life. And the one about Maids and Ladies I loved, loved and loved, because of his kindness and compassion. But when I do a more powerful role, like the one in The Darkest Night, I try to bring as many flaws as possible. I think it's more interesting to see flawed women on the big screen.

You once said that you would like your roles to serve women to imagine themselves in other roles and expand their imagination.

For me, acting is an exercise in empathy, I try to live in someone else's body: with your dreams, desires, concerns, with your heart. Your loves and sorrows It helps me to be less judgmental and more compassionate. Es like going to school to learn to know other people. In reality, we are all connected.