Hey guys, Willie Geist here with another episode of The Sunday Sit Down Podcast.

My thanks is always for clicking and listening along.

I'm going to Academy Award winner for you today.

She is Jessica Chastain, a great conversation up on a rooftop bar in New York City where

she is performing and was just nominated for a Tony Award in a play called A Doll's House.

She's actually an old iconic play first performed in Denmark in 1879 written by a playwright

named Ibsen.

And I'll let her explain what the story is, who the character is, but what I can tell

you without giving away too much because you're going to want to come to New York and see

this play is that it is very stripped down.

That's the euphemism I will use.

Not much of a set, not much in the way of costumes or props or any of the other things

you're used to seeing when you come to Broadway.

It's just raw performance for two hours where Jessica doesn't come off stage the entire

time.

Some of her cast members move in and out, but it is her all the time.

She's amazing in it as you would probably expect.

She's also on Broadway.

The place she always dreamed of moving, growing up in Northern California as a little girl.

She says she didn't quite fit into any of the groups and then discovered theater and said

I want to do that.

And so she got into Juilliard, came to New York City, went on to become an incredible

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