Jessica Chastain Gossip

Earlier this week, Jessica Chastain confirmed on Instagram that they’ve started shooting 355 in Paris. The film was first announced last year in Cannes Full Story

With Disney taking over Fox, and the X-Men returning to Marvel Studios’ control, the X-Men franchise is now a lame duck. Dark Phoenix, which should have been the next stop in the two-decade-long franchise, is now the culmination of the franchise that began with 2000’s X-Men. (New Mutants, which was supposed to be the start of a new branch of X-movies, is now a truncated offshoot. Full Story

Sometimes you look at a trailer and think it can go either way—the movie might be better than this, or might be exactly as bad as this trailer is making it seem. Marvel trailers tend to be like that. Between their habit of cutting around any potentially plotty scenes and a standardized edit template, Marvel trailers can be very same-y, a bit boring even, and definitely withholding the good stuff. Full Story

When it comes to celebrities and the term “Wolf Pack”, Leonardo DiCaprio comes to mind. Men come to mind. Women weren’t considered wolves. Are we sure about that?  As I mentioned yesterday in my post about Michelle Williams’s marriage revelation Full Story

Jessica Chastain has become one of the most visible advocates for women in the film industry, speaking out for more inclusion and using her position to get her co-stars equal pay Full Story

As soon as It premiered last year, the internet began fantasy casting Jessica Chastain in the sequel as the adult Beverly. If you’re not aware, It is a story in two parts, the first in the past—the 1950s in the TV miniseries, the 1980s in the movie—and the second in the present, with the characters now grown adults. Full Story

Octavia Spencer told a really great Show Your Work story at Sundance this week. Octavia and Jessica Chastain are good friends. Over a year ago, Jessica reached out to Octavia because she wanted them to do a movie together. During those discussions, they talked about pay equity and how men are paid so much more in Hollywood than women. Full Story

A few days ago, Jessica Chastain retweeted an article outlining past allegations of sexual assault against director Bryan Singer. Full Story

Molly’s Game is Aaron Sorkin’s directorial debut, but it’s Jessica Chastain’s movie from start to finish. Written by Sorkin, adapted from Molly Bloom’s memoir as the mastermind of the world’s most exclusive poker game, unsurprisingly Molly’s Game is mostly a series of flashy monologues characters spit at each other like they’re in a particularly classy rap battle. Full Story