Things couldn’t be going better for the 35-year-old vegan: She was just nominated for an Oscar for her role in“Zero Dark Thirty” and also shone in“Tree of Life” and “The Help”.
She said recently that it had been difficult for her to get roles for a long time because all the women in scripts are either dark-haired or blonde. In Hollywood, people don’t necessarily know what to do with red-haired women, you said in a recent interview. Al Pacino would have put you out of your misery: “He cast me in his movie“Wild Salome“. Al Pacino’s funny nutrition tip for Jessica on the movie set back then can be seen here in a short interview.
She owes her success not least to her principle of determination: what she starts, she sees through. For example, going vegan. If the chips have been deep-fried in duck fat, Chastain just doesn’t eat them. She has been a vegetarian for 15 years and vegan for five: “It’s about leading a life that doesn’t contribute to cruelty.” The actress also pays attention to her vegan lifestyle on film sets. The chicken in the movie ‘The Help’ was therefore purely vegan. In the scene in the movie, the “fried chicken” for Jessica was imitated from tofu;-)
In 2012 you were voted “Sexiest Vegetarian” by Peta:
Vegan kitchen like that red haired woman!
Her mother, Jerri Chastain, works as a chef in a vegan restaurant, so Jessica has no shortage of recipe ideas in addition to her success as an actress.
Backstage with Jessica Chastain, best actress/drama, Interview Video here.
Chastain in “The Help”, trailer here.
And here is the fried chicken imitated from tofu for Jessica Chastain in “The Help”
