Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw and Allison Pill are featured on January issue of Glamour Magazine, in a talk about what they learned playing women who run Miss Sloane.

The idea of putting conviction over personal ambition comes up a lot in this film. Can you relate, Chastain?
I no longer think in terms of, Ooh this is a great role and what is it going to do for – actually, I’ve never really thought about what something is going to do for my career. But you listen to your agents who say, “This is a really great thing for you.” I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you’re doing. Now I just want to do what I feel is right in my heart. I want to be involved in a story that makes difference.

Do you think men and women will react differently to this film?
My gentleman friend was so excited by it… he was on the edge of his sit.
Alison Pill: True badassery has no gender

Check digital scans added in our gallery, so you can read the full interview until we transcript it.

December 1, 2016   Luciana

Jessica is on cover of this week’s Net-a-Porter’s magazine The Edit, and on the interview she says it’s easy for her to aim for challenging, feminist roles to portray, despite the difficult characters she gravitates towards.

If I can help create empathy and balance in society, I’m going to do whatever I can to tell stories that subconsciously create that. When I get a script that has the opportunity to create discussion and inspire young girls, I don’t want to say no to that … I just want to contribute.

Which explains why the movie star set up her own production company, Freckle Films, which focuses on getting women more involved in the world of cinema, whether they’re in front of the camera or behind it.

There are incredible movies with female protagonists, but I’m cautious to say everything’s better now because I see studios patting themselves on the back: ‘Look, I’ve got this film with diversity. I’ve got women in this.’ I think when you congratulate yourselves for diversity, that means nothing’s really changed.

Our gallery was updated with digital scans of the magazine.

December 1, 2016   Luciana

The last time that Peter Lindbergh shot the Pirelli calendar, in 2002, his subjects were up-and-coming actresses of the moment, like Amy Smart, Rachel Leigh Cook, Erika Christensen, and James King. Glamorous and sexy, they all looked full of promise and undying youth. The 44th edition, titled Emotional, features Jessica Chastain, Penélope Cruz, Nicole Kidman, Rooney Mara, Helen Mirren, Julianne Moore, Lupita Nyong’o, Charlotte Rampling, Léa Seydoux, Uma Thurman, Alicia Vikander, Kate Winslet, Robin Wright, Zhang Ziyi, and Moscow State University professor Anastacia Ignatova.

The 2017 calendar “conveys personality, sensitivity and the guts to be yourself”, Peter Lindbergh explained at the international press launch of the new calendar in Paris. The German photographer has called the creation “Emotional”, emphasizing how his aim was “not shoot a calendar about perfect bodies but to capture sensitivity and emotion, laying bare the souls of the women in the images, rendering them more naked that a nude.”

A behind-the-scenes video was released with scenes of all actresses of this version, also check screen captures added in our gallery.