I added 1087 high quality screen captures of Jessica as Rachel in the amazing movie “The Debt”. Check it:

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

Jessica did an interview yesterday to BBC News on her new movie “The Debt”. Check it:

“The Debt” is a compelling espionage thriller with a casting decision that prevents this otherwise outstanding production from being one of the best dramas of the year. Skipping back and forth between events in 1966 and 1997, the story centers on three Israeli agents on a secret mission in East Berlin at the height of the Cold War. Based on the 2007 Israeli film “Ha-Hov,” director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love”) casts two sets of talented actors to play the Mossad agents. (…)

Of the seven notable players, Chastain — the sweet-tempered social outcast Celia in “The Help” – is the standout performer in another emotionally complex role.

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“The Debt” is a remake of the 2007 Israeli film “Ha-Hov.” Working from a screenplay by Matthew Vaughn, Jane Goldman and Peter Straughan, director John Madden (“Shakespeare in Love”) delivers a film that works as a spy story but also raises provocative questions about what happens when creating a national myth requires taking liberties with the facts.

Although Mirren is impressive, it’s Chastain who gives “The Debt” its urgency and its soul. Virtually unknown just a year ago, she has emerged as one of the most exciting actresses in American film, with recent standout roles in “The Tree of Life” and “The Help.” Chastain has the rare ability to disappear into a character while paradoxically retaining her singular charisma.

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A few months ago, she was unknown. Now she’s ubiquitous.

Jessica Chastain isn’t yet a household name, but the 30-year-old California native and Julliard graduate has turned 2011 into a remarkable cinematic coming-out party.

It started with Terrence Malick’s adventurous “The Tree of Life,” in which she played Brad Pitt’s wife and the ultimate nurturing mother figure.

She’s currently on screens in the hit “The Help,” as the ditzy but open-minded black sheep of a racist Mississippi town.

Still to come: Jeff Nichols’ festival favorite “Take Shelter,” in which she plays a long-suffering wife whose husband (played by Michael Shannon) has disturbing visions of ecological catastrophe. And “Coriolanus,” director/star Ralph Fiennes visceral Shakespeare adaptation, in which she’s the title character’s wife. And Al Pacino’s daring documentary “Wilde Salome,” the unconventional chronicle of a Pacino staging of Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” in which Chastain plays the title character.

More? There’s “Texas Killing Fields,” a murder drama from Ami Canaan Mann, the daughter of director Michael Mann. And “The Wettest County in the World,” a Depression-era crime drama bought by the Weinstein Co. at Cannes.

Before those last five movies hit theaters, though, Chastain will show up in “Shakespeare in Love” director John Madden’s “The Debt” which opens on Wednesday. (more…)

There is a fantastic film in The Debt. With a director like John Madden behind the camera, it’s a bit surprising that he didn’t churn out something of a higher caliber, especially when there’s plenty of scenes that show signs of a competent, meticulous storyteller at work. And, sure enough, when those scenes play out – a tense train station sequence in particular – they outweigh the film’s less impressive qualities.

The Debt tells the story of three Mossad agents – Rachel Singer (Jessica Chastain), David Peretz (Sam Worthington) and Stephan Gold (Marton Csokas) – hunting down a Nazi war criminal in 1965. It’s a promising hook, and the script (initially scribed by Matthew Vaughn and Jane Goldman, then worked on by Madden and Peter Straughan) delivers on that promise, but only in 1965. Everything involving that mission is tightly paced, suitably claustrophobic and keenly aware of the gray area of each character’s motivations.

It’s when we meet these same characters 30 years later that problems arise. (more…)

Sorry for missing that! Jessica was at Chelsea Lately last night to a short, but very funny interview! You can watch the interview below:

Edit: As you can see, screen captures are added, thanks to my friend Becca which helps me to find a good copy to do it.

A new featurette and six clips more were released this week for “The Debt”. You can see the featurette embed at this post, for more videos, go check at MovieWeb.

When Jessica Chastain left her theater training at Juilliard and started landing movie roles, she got a gift. None of the movies came out right away. It took a while before anyone saw her work in Al Pacino’s Wilde Salome (which finally debuts in Venice), or Terrence Malick’s mystical The Tree of Life (which Fox Searchlight premiered in Cannes before a summer opening), or John Madden’s Mossad thriller The Debt, which post-Disney Miramax finally sold to distributor Focus Features (August 31).

The delayed openings meant that Chastain remained a hot actress—and a blank slate. Nobody projected her last movie onto what they thought she could do. So she was able to be a chameleon, playing a dramatic actress, a sweetly luminous idealized 50s mother, and a tough-as-nails assassin. She also earned raves as brassy southern blonde Celia in summer lit hit The Help, and starred opposite Michael Shannon as his wife in the ominously atmospheric drama Take Shelter, which played Sundance and Cannes, and will show on the fest circuit before Sony Pictures Classics opens it September 30. Ralph Fiennes also cast her as his wife in Shakespeare’s Coriolanus, where she stood her ground against both him and the magnificent Vanessa Redgrave as her mother-in-law. Weinstein Co. picked up the film after it earned raves in Berlin; it will play Toronto before its December release. And Chastain also landed a spot in another fall fest film, Texas Killing Fields, as well as TWC’s upcoming period gangster ensemble Wettest County. We talk about all these films below.