Jessica Chastain Daily

Jessica Chastain attends the “Les Fantômes d'Ismaël" premiere and Opening Gala during the 70th annual Cannes Film Festival at Palais des Festivals on May 17, 2017 in Cannes.  

“For a long time I was hearing that studios didn’t want to make films with female leads because they didn’t think they would make any money. Maybe this is showing a new trend, audiences are interested in everyone’s story, not just the story of the few. It’s very rare to play a character defined by her work and not her male counterpart. I think it represents this generation of women who are independent and capable and strong and not the product of something else, the girlfriend or the victim of the villain of the piece. It’s really exciting to play a woman who’s smart and intelligent and who uses her brain.”

I was hired to win. And I use whatever resource I have.

Watch below the first teaser for John Madden’s thriller Miss Sloane, out in U.S. theaters on December 9th with Jessica Chastain, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Mark Strong, Michael Stuhlbarg, Alison Pill, Jake Lacy, John Lithgow, and Sam Waterston.   

Chastain plays Elizabeth Sloane, a political fixer with an abused and abusive past who takes on Washington’s well-oiled gun lobby to pass gun legislation.

The story is set in motion when new legislation requiring more stringent background checks for gun ownership gains traction in Congress, and Sloane is approached to spearhead the campaign, quickly finding herself pit against the formidable power of her political opponents. Deploying her notorious skills, and driven by a desire to win at all costs, she jeopardizes those closest to her, and puts her own career at risk.