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The Eyes of Tammy Fayestar is busy writing her own.
Jessica Chastainknows the power of the media well.
People would always respond like, Oh, shes a crook, shes this, shes that …
Even the mascara running down her face.
Reexamining how people particularly women have been treated by the press has become something of a national pastime.
Its a neat solution: fight media with media.
Shell write her own story the first time around no revisionist history needed.
So my first question after watching the movie is, could you even see through those lashes?
And that’s what gave the look.
Which I realize I just did.
And I think it’s the same conversation about, How many pantsuits is this person wearing?
And that is very upsetting to me.
As an actor, what do you like about being on camera?
Well, there are different ways of being on camera.
I can respond in terms of acting and say that, theres a beautiful thing Al Pacino taught me.
He directed my very first film.
He said, the camera is an extension of who you are in cinema.
it’s possible for you to say one thing, but feel something else.
And the camera notices it.
It’s like a microscope.
And so that’s what I love about film acting is this sense of not being able to hide.
And to me, it feels like theres a connection then with an audience.
You have a reputation for speaking your mind in interviews and you’re fairly active in social media.
Do you have ever have trouble deciding what to share and not share with the public?
I don’t think when I’m talking like, Oh, there’s the headline.
I’m kind of more free than that.
Did it take you time to figure out how to do that?
It really helped me move through a sense of like, I can’t worry what others think.
And when you worry what others think, you’re not really being an honest person.
You’re not really being alive, you’re kind of faking who you are.
And thats been a big lesson for me, and a great gift.
This interview has been edited and condensed.
