LOS ANGELES --
The Oscars seemed kindly on Jessica Chastain.
She received the Academy Award for finest actress Sunday evening for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” during which she portrays the rise, fall and redemption of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker.
Chastain emerged because the Oscar favorite late within the season, incomes an upset victory on the SAG Awards earlier than including a Critics’ Selection trophy for a film that was launched six months in the past.
Nonetheless, she was awed by the second.
“I nonetheless cannot perceive I am holding an Oscar,” Chastain stated backstage.
Moreover performing, Chastain is without doubt one of the movie’s producers. She shepherded the challenge for years after first buying the rights to Bakker’s life in 2012, when she noticed the documentary the movie is predicated on. Bakker died of most cancers at age 65 in 2007.
“It’s very particular to be a part of a movie which means one thing to me in that it rights a misjustice. It re-examines a life,” she stated backstage. “It is so necessary to present one another our flowers after we're nonetheless alive, and I really feel like we missed that chance with Tammy Faye.”
Chastain stated she was texting with Bakker’s kids in the course of the telecast.
In accepting the trophy from Anthony Hopkins, Chastain famous violence towards minorities and that suicide was a number one reason behind loss of life for the LGBTQ neighborhood, saying she was impressed by Bakker’s compassion.
“I’m impressed by her radical acts of affection,” Chastain stated. “I’m impressed by her compassion and I see it as a tenet that leads us ahead.”
Chastain joins a protracted record of actors who received for portraying a well-known particular person, together with Meryl Streep as Margaret Thatcher in “The Iron Woman” in 2011.
Chastain is almost unrecognizable within the movie because of the bodily transformation she underwent to painting Bakker over the course of 30 years. She wore prosthetics on her face, false tooth for sure scenes and adjusted hair colors and types.
The movie additionally received the Oscar for make-up and hairstyling.
Chastain sings a number of songs within the movie. It acquired blended opinions from critics, who praised the performing however not the screenplay. The movie grossed a paltry US$2.7 million throughout its run in theatres earlier than being made accessible through streaming.
Chastain was nominated for Oscars twice prior to now however didn’t win — in 2012 for supporting actress in “The Assist” and in 2013 for finest actress in “Zero Darkish Thirty.”
Chastain, who turned 45 on Thursday, was raised by a single mom in Sacramento, California. She pursued her love of performing on the metropolis’s junior faculty and later attended Julliard on a scholarship funded by alumni Robin Williams.
Chastain received over Olivia Colman of “The Misplaced Daughter,” Penélope Cruz of “Parallel Moms,” Nicole Kidman of “Being the Ricardos,” and Kristen Stewart of “Spencer.”
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