The Italian husband, feminism, uncomfortable roles: Jessica Chastain is the last great star of Venice 2023

Jessica Chastain A mane of red hair, a true diva dress, crazy fans all around. Jessica Chastain brought the magic of Hollywood to the Venice 2023 red carpet, almost out of time. Protagonist of the last film in competition, memory by Michel Franco, landed on the Lido as a proud performer of an independent film, wearing the t-shirt symbolizing the strike. And then she took the red carpet, among her colleague Peter Sarsgaard and her friend, his wife, Maggie Gyllenhaal.

At the Lido he brought a broken woman, looking for liberation, after a heavy past of domestic abuse. An unconventional role, just the way she likes it. «If the only value that I am asked to interpret is beauty, I won’t accept it», he revealed some time ago. A career that began quietly and reached the Oscar for Tammy Faye’s eyes. “Any of you out there feeling hopeless or alone, I want you to know that you are loved unconditionally for the uniqueness that you are and that you represent,” he said in 2022 with the award in hand.

Jessica Chastain, born in Sacramento, California, forty-four years ago, grew up with her mother. Complicated childhood, leaving school before graduating, the drama of her sister’s suicide, after having struggled for a long time with addictions and depression: «This has completely changed the person I am. Films, Oscars, clothes… nothing is that important.”he said.

Married to the Italian count Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, two children had through a surrogate, marriage in a Venetian villa, house between Treviso and America, the actress does not like to talk about her private life: «The less you know about me, the more they remember my characters”, his guiding phrase. And on love: «I believe that our ability to love others, on multiple levels and in multiple directions, is what makes us great people. But there are different types of love. The selfish one, the possessive one and the one where you don’t love yourself enough. Free love, which has no expectations, is something completely different.”

Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain

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Jessica Chastain

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Source: Vanity Fair

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