Last night, Jessica attended the 23rd Annual Palm Springs International Film Festival Awards Gala at the Palm Springs Convention Center in Palm Springs. As previously posted here, she was given the “Spotlight Award”.

Jessica looks amazing in a Prabal Gurung dress, with Cartier jewelry and Jimmy Choo shoes. I have added the first batch of pictures, and there’s more to come!

January 8, 2012   Luciana

 

The upcoming Broadway revival of “The Heiress” has found its Catherine Sloper: Jessica Chastain, who received critical acclaim for film performances last year as a snubbed southern wife in “The Help” and as a nurturing young mother in “The Tree of Life,” will play the title role in the 1947 play to be directed by Moises Kaufman (“33 Variations”), the producers announced on Thursday.

Ms. Chastain will be making her Broadway debut as the plain-looking daughter who exacts revenge on her overbearing father; Cherry Jones last played the role on Broadway 17 years ago, in a performance that earned her the Tony Award for best actress in a play. Ms. Chastain is a graduate of the Juilliard School with some notable theater credits, such as Desdemona opposite John Ortiz and Philip Seymour Hoffman in the 2009 Off Broadway production of “Othello” and the title role in Oscar Wilde’s “Salome,” with Al Pacino, in Los Angeles. In recent weeks she has earned several critics’ and industry awards and nominations for “The Help,” “The Tree of Life,” and another 2011 film, “Take Shelter” with Michael Shannon.

Mr. Kaufman, in a statement, described Ms. Chastain as “a great actress with chameleon-like prowess and enormous emotional intelligence,” adding, “I think she’s one of the best actresses of her generation.”

The revival of the play by Ruth and Augustus Goetz will be mounted by the film producer Paula Wagner, who is said to be seeking new projects in theater, and the Broadway producers Roy Furman and Stephanie P. McClelland (who worked together on “The Book of Mormon,” “The Addams Family,” and “The History Boys”). No theater, additional casting information or performance schedule has been announced.

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January 6, 2012   Michelle

Reporting from New York — — Jessica Chastain is clearly up for just about anything. On this warm November night she could be sitting cozily inside a buzzing hotel restaurant surrounded by chandeliers, candles and ivy trellises. Instead, she’s gamely agreed to be interviewed in the hotel’s garden, and is now swaying gently in a wooden swing, articulating with a wide-open, shining face and fluttering hands about what it was like, once upon a time, to be “the most unlucky actress in Hollywood.” Read More

December 18, 2011   Luciana

Jessica it’s on Interview Magazine, with a breathtaking new photoshoot plus a great interview done by the amazing Michael Shannon.

If you’ve been to the movies in the last six months, chances are you’ve seen Jessica Chastain. And though the actress’s feast of projects-a staggering five released since last May-simply seem to hint at a calculated, industry-driven blitz to create Hollywood’s next Oscar-buzzy girl to watch, her story is actually the result of a string of cruel, borderline farcical twists of fate. Since 2006, Chastain has made 11 films (plus a TV movie for the BBC), but due to various delays in production and distribution, only two of them saw the light of day before 2011. The most high-profile snag came with Terrence Malick’s Palme d’Or-winning 1950s epic The Tree of Life, in which she starred opposite Brad Pitt. Chastain shot the film more than three years ago, but due to a change in distributors (its original studio, Apparition Films, dissolved), it was only released this past spring by Fox Searchlight. Nevertheless, the Northern California native has even referred to the “Chastain curse,” joking how she’d promised other directors and her family upcoming roles with marquee names only to see her work linger in cinematic purgatory. “It’s insane,” she told Interview in September 2010. “I did some of these movies four years ago. My poor mother! I tell her I’m doing a movie with Al Pacino and another with Brad Pitt. She tells all her friends, and years go by . . . ” Read More

December 12, 2011   Luciana

The Marrakech film festival has ended, and Jessica attended a few premmieres, as she was part of the jury. I added more than 130 pictures, with several being HQ sized, of all events Jess attended. Check it:

December 12, 2011   Luciana

Jessica Chastain attended the opening ceremony for the 2011 Marrakech International Film Festival on Friday (December 2) in Marrakech, Morocco. She was also at the Tribute To Prince Moulay Rachid. And while I was looking for pictures of this events, I have found some pictures of an event she attended last November 22. Check it:

December 4, 2011   Luciana