Jessica Chastain, the Academy Award-nominated actress for The Help and Zero Dark Thirty, stars in Miss Sloane, in theaters December 9, as a Washington, D.C., lobbyist who takes on the powerful gun lobby and discovers winning may come at too high a price. Here are five facts about the 39-year-old native Californian.
- She caught the acting bug at age 7 when her grandmother took her to see David Cassidy in Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat.
- Chastain declares the love of her life is Chaplin, her three-legged rescue dog.
- In order to gain weight for her role in The Help, the vegan actress drank soy ice cream melted in the microwave.
- Chastain learned to play the ukulele because she couldn’t travel with her guitar.
- When it comes to scenes that require tears, it’s easy for Chastain, who says she has a “bottomless well.”