Jessica Chastain will make a great mum some day, her Take Shelter co-star Michael Shannon has said.

The US actor plays a paranoid man experiencing apocalyptic visions in the drama, with Jessica starring as his wife and mother to their young daughter, played by Tova Stewart.

Michael said of Jessica: “She has a big, big heart. She’s so compassionate and I think that’s what makes her work so powerful. Working with her and in things I have seen her in, she always brings so much love and sensitivity to what she does.

“And she really pays attention to other people, she’s not consumed by herself or her own situation, she’s always looking out for other people. Especially with kids, she’s always so sweet with them.

“On Take Shelter she was always keeping an eye on Tova who plays our daughter. I think not only is she a great actress, I think she’ll be a great mother some day.”

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Back in 2005 Jessica did a recurring role participation at Law & Order: Trial by Jury as Assistant District Attorney Sigrun Bor. My friend Colleen was capping the show to her Scott Cohen website and donated caps for us. Check it:

This article was written at Sueddeutsche Zeitung Magazine by Andrew Gumbel and translated by us.

The great unknown longingly waits for the film world in a new Meryl Streep. We have found it: Jessica Chastain. Although the woman was still barely visible in the cinema, she is already celebrated by all of Hollywood. And rightly so.

Do you know Jessica Chastain? No? And yet her name in Hollywood is currently trading incredibly high. That it is still almost unknown to itself, is a quirk of fate, it was hailed by critics even as a movie star, yes, as the greatest actress of her generation, before the audience had even a single movie with her to see. Even in America they had not yet seen the movies, when asked in interviews already, what will she do when she is too old even to play leading roles. (more…)

Jessica is currently in Toronto filming her new movie “Mama”. The Toronto newspaper 24h posted on their October 12 issue a picture of Jessica on set. Sadly, the article wasn’t about the movie, but about the weather, but at least you can take a look:

I added a few more pictures of Take Shelter press conference done back in September, also two new portraits (sadly, tagged) done at TIFF this year. Check it:

Jessica did a new photo session, this time for Telegraph Magazine (read the article here) and you can find the remained pictures in the gallery:

People’s Choice Nominees Selections are now up. Voice your choice to determine this year’s nominees. The top five in each category will become the official nominees of People’s Choice Awards 2012.

Vote for Jessica Chastain as:
- Favorite Movie Actress (including her name in the ballot, under ‘other’)
- Favorite Movie: The Help
- Favorite Ensemble Movie Cast – The Help
- Favorite Drama Movie – The Debt and The Help

LONDON – The Works U.K. Distribution has corralled all U.K. distribution rights to Jeff Nichols’ Take Shelter.

The movie is set to have its British premiere later this week during the BFI London Film Festival.

Nichols directs Michael Shannon and rising star Jessica Chastain and details the story of young couple which sees the man become haunted by having terrifying dreams about an encroaching, apocalyptic storm.

The movie unspooled at this year’s Sundance Film Festival where it was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize.

The film went on to win the Cannes 2011 Critics Week Grand Prize and FIPRESCI Award and was most recently awarded the Grand Prize at the Deauville Film Festival and Best Film at the Zurich Film Festival.

Jessica Chastain has been in a smoking-hot string of movies in 2011, starring alongside Brad Pitt, Helen Mirren, Al Pacino and Ralph Fiennes. And before her Hollywood breakthrough year is even over, critics are already calling Chastain the best actress of her generation. (more…)

TORONTO – “Take Shelter” has emerged as one of the most acclaimed films of the fall season, thanks in large part to a devastating performance by star Michael Shannon.

His quietly powerful turn as a small-town family man beset by increasingly horrifying dreams drew whispers of Oscar predictions when the movie screened at the recent Toronto International Film Festival.

But co-star Jessica Chastain says there were indications early on that Shannon’s performance was special.

Back when they shot the film, she says a crowd of about 100 extras erupted in applause after watching Shannon command a pivotal scene in which he explodes with emotion. (more…)