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Jessica Chastain
“I was the girl who never thought I’d be anything but
an actor, so what I’ve really had to struggle with is having patience.”
Born in Northern California and a graduate of Juilliard, Chastain was
cast by reclusive director Terrence Malick to star opposite Brad Pitt
and Sean Penn in The Tree of Life, in theaters this fall. He may have
seen her performance in Salome, opposite Al Pacino, where she did the
Dance of the Seven Veils. “My character’s goal was to give herself
away,” Chastain says. “To be completely naked. So I went to some strip
clubs in L.A. just to be, like, Okay, this is normal. There’s nothing
taboo about it.”
September 2010
