Jessica Chastain Gossip

It’s impossible in this day and age to keep a movie star’s former marriage a secret. CDAN has been writing about this for years.

I cannot stand this preachy cunt. The only good thing about her win is that she prevented Kristen Stewart from winning.

LGBTQ cunt.

She's not a cunt and she's a great actress. I felt a little sorry for her getting that awkward political speech out during her acceptance but I can't blame her after psychopath Will Smith derailed everybody's evening.

I still want to know the story behind her association with Matthew Newton.

R5 I'd guess that 'her people' didn't do their research very well.

Not hot gossip at all, but I had a Sac friend who was in acting classes with her, & one day he either burped or farted (he can’t remember which) right in front of her & she was really (rightfully) repulsed.

She has like two kids (through surrogacy - which is controversial), yet working and hustling nonstop. I also doubt her count husband is raising those kids.

Famous for lying about her age. Singer Mandisa (RIP) inadvertently caused a commotion when she revealed she was in Chastain’s class in high school.

Lots of whispers about a former relationship between Chastain and Hollywood head honcho Megan Ellison. Ellison was said to be in love with Chastain, who is not gay but played ball to secure parts in prestige pictures.

Jess and I are both high school Class of 2012. We both went to the same school...

I don't know her

She has done things that contradict her squeaky-clean, outspoken feminist image, but would probably prefer to do more edgy material as well as work with a lot of more morally questionable, but talented people had she not painted herself into such a corner with the image she has crafted for herself.

She's no Isla Fisher

[quote] Jess and I are both high school Class of 2012. We both went to the same school... —Catherine Zeta-Jones

I was freshmen then. I always looked up to you all.

Just recently, she worked with oddball director Bernard Rose and signed on to do a David Mamet scripted JFK conspiracy movie. Mamet has turned into a big time right-wing Trumper. I don't know if this is start of her branching out or just more outliers.

To be clear, I don't have a horse in the race. I'm just a fascinated observer.

All I know about her I know from a Tasteful Friends post about her apartment at the Osborne (which is great). Otherwise, she's an actress and I'm reasonably certain I've seen her in a film or two but that she made no impression one way or the other.

Don't care if she had a secret husband or not. Some relationships are best forgotten.

It’s off the record, on the QT, and very hush-hush…

Her Tammy Faye Oscar will always be considered one of the most unjust and undeserved wins ever awarded by the Academy.

As a drag queen at heart, I’ll always love these:

[quote] Her Tammy Faye Oscar will always be considered one of the most unjust and undeserved wins ever awarded by the Academy.

I can think of one worse.

She's like Meryl Streep. Great actress who mostly works with vanilla directors in decent, but mediocre movies. But J will "Zero Dark Thirty" and "The Forgiven" are at least edgier than anything Streep has done.

Who?

R18- I actually disagree with that statement. But I like jessica so..

I don’t know how she won an Oscar for that terrible, one-note, baby girl performance as Tammy Faye. That was a terrible film. The Academy really should’ve tried harder that year.

She’s not that great of an actress. Despite her Juilliard training, she couldn’t cut it on Broadway in The Heiress. And her return in A Doll’s House left Tony voters cold. She should stop trying to recreate other actresses triumphs (Cherry Jones, Janet McTeer) and do something original.

R24- Really?

I found Julianne Moore's win for that HORRID Alzheimers film to be the definition of what you are ascribing to Jessica--

(I do agree that the EOTF film was flawed, but I found it very watchable)

There are many actresses in unwatchable films who at least get nominated- I fucking hate all of Larrain's films but he gets good performances out of his actresses- but his films leave me utterly cold. Current one is Maria.

Chastain is attractive and she’s a competent actor, but the poster above nailed her problem when he said he’d seen movies with her but she made no impression on him. And it’s true, there is simply nothing interesting about her work or screen presence.

I was once watching a movie she was in where she was part of a large cast, and her character drops out of the story for a while. When her character returned, I realized I had forgotten all about her in the interim, out of sight out of mind. Despite the big features and showy red hair she’s a vacuum in everything she’s in.

Who cares?

[quote] Despite the big features and showy red hair she’s a vacuum in everything she’s in.

Sort of makes you wonder why anyone hires her, right?

Watching her in Mothers' Instinct right now on Hulu and she is pretty good in it

She's Amy Adams with half the talent and none of the warmth...

I like her performance as Celia Foote in "The Help"- an otherwise crappy (pie) movie. It's very broad but she's darling with lots of warmth and vulernability. I love "Zero Dark Thirty" and she's decent in it....but I always felt that role would have benefited from a more cerebral actress. AWFUL in Crimson Peak- it's camp but not the good kind. And I saw "The Heiress" on Broadway and yes- she was pretty bad. So: can't do period, can't do accents. Other weird rumors about her? For a long time she was said to have an unusually close 'friendship' with actress Jessica Wexler- they were in the same Juilliard class and attended lots of events together for years afterwards. She got a full ride scholarship to Juilliard paid for by Robin Williams. Her big break came with the play 'Salome' as Al Pacino was looking for an 'unknown'. Her sister struggled with addiction and eventually committed suicide. Looks gaunt in the face with thinning hair she struggles to hide because she's vegan. Definitely NOT a nepo baby- my fave Chastain fact! That's all I got.

I love Zero Dark Thirty. Great film. She was very good in Molly's Game.

She has a soap opera name. It could work for either a character on one or an actress on one.

She has the same problem Anne Hathaway has: there are few moments where it’s not obvious that she’s acting. Too arch and mannered.

Something fake about her…

R30 I don’t see any similarities between Chastain and Amy Adams other than they’re both equally forgettable.

r19, I worked on the Bernard Rose project (which I don't think it's going to see the light of day-it's another Megapolis). She and BR got into a screaming match one day, sadly I wasn't there to see it.

She’s been out there kissing fellers for free!

r34 Mothers' Instinct stars Chastain and Hathaway but it is set in the repressed 50's/60's so their acting stiffness works

He's not pretty enough to be an actress

she is always soo secretive, like alot of skeletons in that closet.

An abortion...

[Quote] It’s as if the marriage never happened.

I’m shocked and scandalized that this immeasurably important historical fact has been memory-holed!

Hopefully Trump will release the intelligence files on Jessica Chastain’s first marriage!

Was it a 'green card' marriage OP?

One theory is that she prefers juicy roles over working with the big directors and great movies.

Almost three years and fewer than 50 posts.

By DL standards, that is totally gossip-free.

She seems mega-ambitious and shady - think Jennifer Lawrence without the star power.

Her latest movie "Dreams" just screened at the Berlin. Apparently she has some fairly graphic sex scenes and even gets raped at the end, This is more evidence that she might be trying to breaking away, even though that recent Hollywood Reporter interview seemed almost apologetic. Trying assure people that this isn't an irresponsible/exploitive/anti-immigration movie by spouting her political views and feminist takes on the material.

I thought she was......you know.

Professional critics mostly like "Dreams", but Letterboxd reviews are quite divisive.

It would be a disappointment if "Dreams" does not become massively controversial and dragged by certain groups. As well as Jessica called out for her perceived bad taste and hypocrisy.

I have no horse in this, I just enjoy discourse and debate - especially when it involves progressive Hollywood feminist types.

^48 Grace Randolph once said that Jessica Chastain has never met a bandwagon she didn't want to jump on. I kind of agree.

About ten years ago there was a thread on here that seemed to take forever to fill up that called her"superhet".

Jessica Chastise?

Pass.

She had a huge debut year and she's beautiful.