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Awards Chatter

Jessica Chastain - 'Miss Sloane'

Awards Chatter

Scott Feinberg

Tv & Film, Film Interviews

4.81.5K Ratings

🗓️ 17 November 2016

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

The two-time Oscar nominee opens up about being discovered by Al Pacino and starring in six 2011 films ("I was like, 'What is happening in my life?!'"), the 'Zero Dark Thirty' "take-down" ("I wanted to just murder everyone") and plans for the future ("I'm probably going to act less... I'm more interesting in producing and maybe even directing"). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:42.2

the Hollywood Reporters Awards Podcast.

0:44.4

I'm the host Scott Feinberg, and my guest today is Jessica Chastain, the 39-year-old

0:48.9

actress who is best known for her work in the films The Help, The Debt, Take Shelter,

0:53.8

Coriolanus, The Tree of Life, Lawless, Zero Dark 30, Mama,

0:57.4

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, Miss Julie,

0:59.8

a Most Violent Year, Interstellar, The Martian, Crimson Peak, and now Miss Sloane, John Madden's new film

1:06.2

about the gun lobby and one particular gun lobbyist, played by Chastain, who starts on one side

1:11.3

of the issue and ends up on the other.

1:14.0

Over the course of our conversation, Chastine and I talk about her journey from humble beginnings to

1:18.3

Juilliard, as well as her big break, being discovered by Al Pacino.

1:23.0

We delve into her breakthrough year in film 2011, within which she appeared in six films, two of

1:28.0

which received Best Picture Oscar nominations and one of which brought her a Best

1:31.6

Supporting Actress Oscar nomination.

1:33.5

We also delve into her big follow-up to that year in Catherine Bigelow's Zero Dark 30,

1:38.0

another eventual Best Picture Oscar nominee for which she received a best actress Oscar nomination for portraying the woman who led the hunt for Osama bin Laden.

1:46.0

Chastain reveals new information about the extent of her interactions with that woman,

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