Jessica Chastain takes on A Dolls House in new Broadway adaptation

Posted by Tobi Tarwater on Friday, August 23, 2024

Jessica Chastain:

There's an immediate intimacy with acting. I find that, in many cases, even if we pretend we're not, we're all sensitive beings that are very tender and have a lot of emotions.

And some people work very hard to protect themselves and put up this wall, right? And we see that on the subway. We see it talking to people sometimes at a coffee shop. How are you doing today? Fine. Thank you. How are you? Fine. Thank you.

But we're never really connecting on an intimate level with strangers. And acting really changes that for me. I mean, I show up on a set. It could be someone I have never met before, and there's an immediate connection and an openness, and we're not allowed to be guarded around each other.

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