Variety has published the full video for the ‘Variety Actors on Actors’ series, in which two actors was set to candid chat about their careers. Jessica was paired with Mark Ruffalo and during the week the magazine is teasing us with some bits of the interviews.

The interview will air on PBS SoCal on Dec. 28 as a part of the Variety Studio: Actors on Actors series and on PBS stations nationally beginning in January; check local listings.

December 10, 2014   Luciana

Jessica attended last night in New York the premiere for A24’s A Most Violent Year. She was joined by co-star Oscar Isaac, director J C Chandor and producers Neal Dodson and Anna Gerb. I have over 300 HQ pictures of the event added to our gallery:

December 8, 2014   Luciana

Jessica is on cover of InStyle’s January issue, available on newsstands and for digital download Friday, Dec. 12. Check the behind-the-scenes video in our archive, and screen captures in our gallery. Scans will be added as soon the magazine is out!

December 5, 2014   Luciana

Jessica visited The Ellen Degeneres Show yesterday, to promote Interstellar. Watch the video interview in our archive, and check the screen captures, added to the gallery:

December 3, 2014   Luciana

Jessica was all pretty in pink yesterday while attending a private screening of Interstellar at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills. I have a few HQ pictures added:

December 2, 2014   Luciana

Jessica and Mark Ruffalo was paired on Variety Studios Actors on Actors and today alongside the cover was released a portrait (which you can find in our gallery) and another excerpt from the interview. Check it:

Ruffalo: So I would assume that you’re an actor who doesn’t mind a proper rehearsal.
Chastain: Yes, I love it.
Ruffalo: And do you think that comes from your training? Being onstage?
Chastain: Definitely, but I have been in situations where they say, “Yes, we need you for a week of rehearsal before,” and then you just end up sitting in your hotel room for a week.
Ruffalo: So do you find that the art of rehearsing been lost? I mean I feel like a lot of people don’t know how to rehearse.
Chastain: Well to me, it always depends on the actor. Because sometimes it’s great when the first time you say the lines with the other person is caught on camera. For me, rehearsal isn’t about going over the scene over and over again; it’s about going through the script as who I am — not as the character — and saying, what does this line mean and how long have we known each other? … Fleshing out as much as you can that’s not on the page, and building the relationship with the other actor.
Ruffalo: So do you feel more free because of that? Did you improvise a little bit?
Chastain: Actually, (with) Christopher Nolan for “Interstellar,” I was shocked, because I thought he wouldn’t want improvisation. But one of the very first days, I had these speeches to do, and Chris said to me, “OK, why don’t you just put it in your own words now?” The more you rehearse and know your character — even if you’re rehearsing on your own — the easier it is to improvise. Did you guys improvise?
Ruffalo: Yeah, we would start on the script, and then break free, and it wouldn’t be much, maybe a little exercise that then (we) would refine. (Director Bennett Miller) would say, “I really like that. Let’s take that piece of improvisation, do it again, see where we go if we add this (other) element.” So we were building. And then he’d strip out all the dialogue, and it would be a physicalization — you know, hold that moment, don’t feel compelled to say anything, but let that improvisation inform what’s happening between the two of you. And sometimes in those improvisations, there would be a long silence, or there would be some physical thing that came out of the improvisation that would be the whole scene.

December 2, 2014   Luciana