“Theater people are lonely until they find each other. In middle school, I remember feeling alone all the time. Kids would always want to do things that were not fun for me. I’d rather have been doing something creative. There was a failure to connect. I was pretty miserable. When I finally joined the drama club, I was like, Ahhh, I’m not alone anymore. And it was thrilling. I’d found my people, and my life changed completely.”
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“After Tree of Life and Take Shelter played at Cannes, immediately I was getting scripts of supportive wives, and these kind of angel-like women. And I said, you know what? I’m gonna do a horror film. I’m gonna play a woman in Mama that doesn’t want anything to do with children.“
I don’t want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the cafe to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
I’m speaking out as an audience member who is going to the cinema and noticing there’s a problem here because I don’t see women being represented. I don’t see Asian-American actresses being represented. I don’t see women in their 60s being represented in film. There are these really fantastic actresses out there, but there are so few opportunities.
Jessica Chastain for Vanity Fair.
”My grandmother took me to see David Cassidy in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, and I thought, I want to be up there. We sat down and the play started and there was a girl of my age who opened this huge book and started narrating and I thought, ‘This is a job. She gets to wear cool costumes and this is what I am going to do.’ Ever since then I have always known I was going to be an actor.”
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