I have to create a backstory for my character, and secrets that I don’t even necessarily share with my director or writer. The audience doesn’t know her backstory because she never really talks about it - but as an actress, do you have to know exactly what happened to her growing up?
There are limits on how much control she can ever give up, and how intimate she can be with another human being. If you’re a man and you hear the high heels clicking off the marble before she arrives, it’s like the sound of the predator coming.īut then Mark Strong’s character says, “Were you ever normal?” and you really feel the loneliness of my character. are women, they need to send the energy into the room before they arrive. She needs to be intimidating and strong - when you’re working in a profession where less than 10 percent of the lobbyists in D.C.
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I didn’t want to, but I had to, and that’s why I excel at it.” You know there’s definitely some therapy that needs to be done, but I like that the movie doesn’t make her apologize for the way she acts, because in real life she wouldn’t do that.Īlso Read: 'Miss Sloane' Review: Jessica Chastain's Complicated Lobbyist Feels Cable-Ready You get clues, when she says things like, “I grew up lying. Elizabeth Sloane would never talk to anyone about her life. And in this one, we think we’re about to see her say, “I had a really difficult childhood, that’s why I’m like this, and I’m so sorry.” Because we’re smarty-pants audience members, we think we can guess the ending to every movie. But when she actually does it, we’re surprised.
One remarkable thing about “Miss Sloane” is that at the beginning of the film, your character tells us her strategy and what she’s going to do. Donovan,” in Susannah White’s “Woman Walks Ahead,” in Aaron Sorkin’s “Molly’s Game” and maybe in a few others to boot.Īlso Read: 'The Zookeeper's Wife' First Trailer Shows Jessica Chastain Defying the Nazis (Video) True to form, though, her move away from acting may not happen before she appears in the period drama “The Zookeeper’s Wife,” in Xavier Dolan’s “The Life and Death of John F. It also comes at a time when the 39-year-old Chastain, who has landed two Oscar nominations and worked incessantly since her breakthrough year in 2011, is looking to move away from acting in favor of producing. But the film is timely for more than just the always-current Second Amendment debate, because it also paints Chastain’s character as a strong, intimidating woman who is relentlessly attacked by (male) opponents intent on uncovering real and imagined ethical lapses.Īfter a limited release just before the election, “Miss Sloane” goes wide on Friday, in a different political atmosphere than the one in which it was made. In John Madden’s drama “Miss Sloane,” Jessica Chastain plays a fierce Washington lobbyist who leads a campaign to pass gun-control legislation. A version of this story about Jessica Chastain first appeared in the December 9 issue of TheWrap’s Oscar magazine.
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