Celeb News: Jessica Chastain Is The New Meryl

Stepfon

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10 Versatile Performances That Prove Jessica Chastain's an Heir to Meryl Streep

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Whether victim, villain, vixen or valiant pursuer of terrorists, Nazi war criminals and stranded spacemen, Jessica Chastain is undisputedly versatile.

In 2011, the Sacramento native didn’t just simply arrive on the scene. Instead, this Juilliard drama grad, who earned her initial credits on TV (including guest spots on “ER” and “Veronica Mars”) and stage (doing “Salome” opposite Al Pacino) burst forth on multiplex screens like a fiery red-haired supernova while appearing in six films that year. And, in each one, she was a distinctly different character.

She got a bit of a late start when it came to breaking into movies—2008’s little-seen “Jolene,” inspired in part by the Dolly Parton song, is a film best known for being her film debut. But waiting until you are in your 30s before handling fame isn’t necessarily a bad thing. Notice how little of Chastain’s personal life is public knowledge even if she does a fair amount of press. She arrived a full-blown woman onscreen, no awkward ingénue period needed.

The actress, now 38, has more than made up for any lost time. In a very short period, she has managed to receive two Oscar nominations—supporting for 2011’s “The Help” and lead for 2012’s “Zero Dark Thirty.”

Perhaps, even more impressively, Chastain twice pulled off the feat of appearing in the two highest-grossing movies in the U.S. at the same time. During Labor Day weekend In 2011, the civil-rights drama “The Help” was in its fourth and final week on the top of the box office while “The Debt,” an action thriller, opened in second.

And during the Martin Luther King holiday weekend in 2012, “Mama,” a dark horror drama, and “Zero Dark Thirty,” about the CIA’s search for Osama bin Laden, stood side-by-side on top of the box-office chart. Analysts compared her achievement to when Leonardo DiCaprio hogged the top two slots with “Titanic” and “The Man in the Iron Mask” in 1998. (OP's Note: This made Jessica the first woman in nearly 50 years to have the LEADING roles in the #1 and #2 box office movies.)

Little wonder that this actress, who is equally at home in challenging art-house fare as well as mainstream crowd-pleasers, has seen her paycheck go from a reported $100 a day for 2011’s “Take Shelter” to $7 million for this fall’s outer-space drama “The Martian,” which has spent two weeks at No. 1.

One thing Chastain isn’t, judging from these 10 of her choicest film performances, is dull. She might have a dearth of comedic opportunities on her resume (true, “The Help” had its funny moments over that plot-pivotal pie, but voicing a cute Italian-accented jaguar in the 2012 animated sequel “Madagascar 3” doesn’t quite count), but there is an expansive array of dramatic depth in the parts she has done. And she probably has one of the best scorecards for positive critical rankings on Rotten Tomatoes than any actor, male or female, of her caliber.

Performances on the list include:
-The Tree of Life
-Take Shelter
-The Help
-Zero Dark Thirty
-The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby
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dcode78

Critic Choice's MVP Jessica Chastain.

But they did not lie. She's so versatile as an actress..I hope she can get an academy award(how the hell she was passed up for The Most Violent Year) is beyond me..

ArtForFreedom

I love her! She's so charismatic

conatus

She honestly is. An INCREDIBLE actress.

SUNSET BLVD

i think the new meryl is cate blanchett.

i've never been blown away by any of Jessica's performances. Her voice always comes off as so wooden and flat. I watched an advance screening of crimson peak last night, and it was just more of the same from her, with a bad british accent.

Stepfon

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Originally posted by SUNSET BLVD

i think the new meryl is cate blanchett.

i've never been blown away by any of Jessica's performances. Her voice always comes off as so wooden and flat. I watched an advance screening of crimson peak last night, and it was just more of the same from her, with a bad british accent.

More of the same? This character is nothing like any other character that she is played before.

Ramos

QUEEN

Velvet

She is amazing I love her

Monster Boy

She's perfect.

Brodie

I knew the title immediately, but she is a great actress

SUNSET BLVD

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Originally posted by Stepfon

More of the same? This character is nothing like any other character that she is played before.

im not talking about the character, i'm talking about the acting. There's a difference between the characters you play and the type of performance you give.

getback

Queen

fridayteenage

Stepfon

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Originally posted by SUNSET BLVD

im not talking about the character, i'm talking about the acting. There's a difference between the characters you play and the type of performance you give.

I understand the difference and I guess I will just have to wait to see the movie for myself and decide on her performance, so far the majority of the critics seem to think she did well with the role and have praised her acting.

KylieistBoi

I don't agree, Cate Blanchett is almost the same age she has the awards and the performances and I love Jessica, but she is simply not on their level

Stepfon

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Originally posted by KylieistBoi

I don't agree, Cate Blanchett is almost the same age she has the awards and the performances and I love Jessica, but she is simply not on their level

I agree and that's because, as the article states, Jessica just broke out in 2011.

AlphaOmega

I love her and everything that she stands for.

Petty Bourgeoisie

Meryl will never be replaced or surpassed.

Queen Streep is the Madonna of the Thespian Community.

Inception

She's incredible.

I hope she works with Chris Nolan again.

WeFoundWill