The film, co-produced by Chastain herself, tells the life of the wife of televangelist Jim Bakker. The couple built an empire before he fell from grace and was imprisoned in a sex and financial scandal in the 1980s.
Tammy Faye divorced Baker and became a leading figure in the LGBT community by challenging the homophobia that characterized the religious sphere in the United States in the 1980s, a time when a positive AIDS diagnosis was also viewed by many with prejudice. .
– “Fear” -Chastain was attracted to the eccentric televangelist when she saw a documentary in 2012, and studied for years the character with which she won the Oscar, which was also disputed by the Spanish Penélope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”), Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) and Olivia Colman (“The Dark Daughter”).
To achieve the physical resemblance, Chastain worked with a team of stylists, makeup artists and hairdressers, who also won the Oscar in their category on Sunday. With wigs, prosthetics and lots of makeup, she was transformed from head to toe in sessions that took more than four hours.
“At first I was scared and thought ‘how am I going to act like that?’ because it’s like having plastic on your face,” the actress said in an interview with Jimmy Fallon (“The Tonight Show”), in January.
“Then I thought that by having my eyes exposed and my voice and my body, I could use other tools to go beyond this mask,” said the actress who recently starred in the miniseries “Scenes from a Marriage.”
“Different”
Jessica Chastain was born in Sacramento, California.
As a teenager, he took his first steps in the industry dancing and acting in the theater. Discovered in a production of “Romeo and Juliet,” she auditioned for and won a scholarship to study acting at the prestigious Juilliard School in New York.
She quickly landed her first television roles and moved to Los Angeles, where the actress says she has faced professional challenges. “The casting directors didn’t know what to do with me, with the way I looked. I’m not blonde with tanned skin, I looked very different,” she said in an interview about her beginnings.
Little by little, space opened up in the cinema, where he made his great professional leap in 2011 with “The Tree of Life”, by director Terrence Malick. That same year, she played an isolated but empathetic housewife in “Crossed Stories,” a role that earned her her first Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
The following year she was nominated again by the Academy for best actress with “The darkest night”, in which she played an analyst for the US intelligence agency who has the job of tracking down the leader of Al Qaeda, Osama bin Laden.
The mother of two daughters and married to Italian Count Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo since 2007, Chastain is known for guarding her personal life and keeping it away from her work responsibilities.
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