[faded mind]

#2018 mood

Jessica Chastain Talks ‘Molly’s Game’ & Fighting For Equal Pay | Studio 10

Her last point about focusing on why Octavia was paid so little is key.

#2018 mood

“I have a story, and you guys are gonna be the first to hear it,” said Spencer to a panel on Women Breaking Barriers at the Sundance Film Festival. Fifteen months ago, Chastain approached her about doing a movie together. (The two have been good friends since they both starred in “The Help”).

“She wants to do comedies, and I wanna break out of period pieces,” she said as the crowd chuckled. “I love ’em! They’ve been kind to me! But I kinda wanna play someone who resembles me in some fashion.”

When the subject of pay equity between men and women came up, Spencer agreed wholeheartedly: “We were dropping F-bombs and getting it all out there. And then I said, ‘But here’s the thing, women of color on that spectrum, we make far less than white women. So, if we’re gonna have that conversation about pay equity, we gotta bring the women of color to the table.’ And I told her my story, and we talked numbers, and she was quiet, and she said she had no idea that that’s what it was like for women of color.”

Spencer paused as she choked up. “These are happy tears!” she assured the crowd. “I love that woman, because she’s walking the walk and she’s actually talking the talk. She said, ‘Octavia, we’re gonna get you paid on this film. You and I are gonna be tied together. We’re gonna be favored nations, and we’re gonna make the same thing.’ Fast forward to last week, we’re making five times what we asked for.”

Watch “Women Breaking Barriers” Panel - Sundance 2018

White women take notes

Jessica Chastain takes a stand for better female representation in film at Cannes panel

SHE WENT THERE

not all heroes wear capes

Isabelle Huppert and Jessica Chastain photographed by Ruven Afanador.

fake film meme: idris elba + three badass women + james bond (for lauren)

Agent 007 (Idris Elba) and his newly assigned partner (Zoe Saldana) are sent to capture a notorious criminal mastermind (Marion Cotillard) as she wrecks havoc across Europe and Asia. However, they aren’t the only two tracking her down as the stone cold fox (Jessica Chastain) seeks out revenge on the criminal and will stop at nothing to terminate her.

Bradley Cooper & Jessica Chastain | Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis.

Jessica Chastain & Omar Sy for Vogue Germany