January 2, 2015 Leave a Reply

Jessica and her A Most Violent Year co-star Oscar Isaac talked with USA Today about their movie.

Back when she was a drama student at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, Jessica Chastain wasn’t what you’d call a connoisseur of the boozy party scene.

“I wasn’t very tortured. But I was very obsessive about work, which I still am,” says the 37-year-old, two-time Oscar nominee, who graduated from the Lincoln Center campus in 2003. “A lot of people went to (bars) and I think I went one time during school. I wasn’t really a partier.”

Her classmate Oscar Isaac was markedly similar. “The first time I had alcohol I was 25 or 26. I was well into Juilliard,” he says. “I didn’t see the city much.”

Their first year at school, they had to perform monologues for the entire drama department. Chastain did Helen of Troy. Isaac noticed her. It wasn’t reciprocated until later.

“I can’t remember the first time we met. It wasn’t like this magic moment of, ‘Who is that man?’ ” she says.

Isaac, 34, pretends to be hurt. “Maybe a little bit,” he nudges her.

Read the full interview USA Today’s website and a second interview/article can be found here.




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