Rolling Stone magazine has done a great interview with Jessica to spread on their November 10th issue.

“I’m not going to be the girl with the private yoga instructor at my house,” she says. “I don’t want anyone to think, ‘Oh, she’s famous, she’s different than me.'” Still, Chastain, who had a sturdy, down-to-earth upbringing in Northern California with four siblings, a vegan-chef mom and a firefighter dad, can’t deny her ubiquity: “I feel like I’m everywhere. But my personal life hasn’t changed. I think only three people have come up to me in the past six months. Which is too bad, because I love to meet people. I wouldn’t be mean to them.”

November 1, 2011   Luciana

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:

October 27, 2011   Luciana

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. Read More

October 24, 2011   Luciana

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. Read More

October 17, 2011   Luciana

There’s nothing we like better than an overnight success story but Jessica Chastain’s feels just too good to be true. A perfect storm of Chastain movies, swelled by critical adulation, is brewing in what looks like a co-ordinated assault on the awards season.

Earlier this year was a taster, with the release of Terrence Malick’s winner at Cannes, The Tree of Life, in which Chastain played Brad Pitt’s wife – as auspicious a debut as any actor could hope for. Then came civil rights Oscar bait The Help. Next up are apocalyptic fable Take Shelter, another winner at Cannes, and The Debt, an espionage drama starring Helen Mirren. Read More

October 17, 2011   Luciana

It’s become a rare experience to sit down to a movie and discover that Jessica Chastain’s not in it, says Tim Robey.

When the cast for Terrence Malick’s The Tree of Life was announced, there was one name no one could put to a face. As far as we knew, “Jessica Chastain” might have been some exotically-plumed bird Malick had found on a trip round the Galapagos, or perhaps a species of willow in the title role. The trailers gave us a tantalising glimpse of her flame-haired beauty, but “Jessica Who?” was very much the refrain.

A few months after Tree’s Cannes premiere, things are quite different. It’s become a rare experience to sit down to a movie, scrutinise the cast, and discover that Jessica Chastain’s not in it. I’ve heard plenty of quips from colleagues by now that her presence feels like a statutory requirement in every 2011 release. It certainly makes you wonder about the last time a film star was this omnipresent. Back in the mid-1990s, it felt like Steve Buscemi was in everything (40 film roles, give or take, between 1990 and 1998). With seven back-to-back releases in this one year, Chastain’s starting to give him a run for his money. I’d recommend that Buscemi watch his back, but the likelihood of them gunning for the same parts is, prima facie, fairly slim. Read More

October 17, 2011   Luciana