Jessica Chastain took ‘personal offense’ while singing the lyrics to ‘Stand By Your Man’ for the role of George and Tammy and warned the young extras not to listen to the words being sung.
Jessica Chastain was “personally offended” while singing the lyrics to Tammy Wynette’s “Stand By Your Man” for her lead role in the George & Tammy biopic series.
The 45-year-old American actress starred with Michael Shannon, 48, in the new Paramount drama in which Jessica went through difficult times during filming.
He revealed that before standing on stage to perform the 1980 country hit, he found himself warning young extras sitting in the crowd not to listen to the words he sang before filming.
Tough role: Jessica Chastain took ‘personal offense’ while singing lyrics to Tammy Wynette’s ‘Stand By Your Man’ over her lead role in the George & Tammy biopic series
speaking to The GuardianJessica said: ‘I looked at all these sweet, young faces looking at me and I said: ‘Girls: I don’t want you to hear the lyrics to this song!
“Please…I love Tammy, but she didn’t believe this, she was married five times, so don’t take any of this as gospel.”
George & Tammy tells the story of the romance between famous country musicians George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
He previously said that performing Stand by Your Man was more intimidating than any of the other songs he performed.
Stars: The American actress, 45, starred opposite Michael Shannon, 48, in the new Paramount drama in which Jessica faced difficult moments during filming.
“That song is something you hear over and over again and it’s so rooted in country music history,” he said in an interview with yahoo entertainment.
‘In addition, the gender debate [around it]. It’s such a loaded song that I think most of my nervousness came from that aspect.’
In her interview with The Guardian, Jessica also touched on the Me Too movement within Hollywood after explaining how she felt the need to save Tammy Wynette from ‘years of unfair feminist dismissal’.
She expressed that she would “never get mad” at another woman for working with men who have been exposed as abusers.
Even now, with Me Too, people will say, “Are you mad at this actress, who spoke up in support of this person?”… I will never be mad at a woman for having to do what she had to do to support herself and survive. , because she is playing by different rules than men.
His co-star Michael Shannon, who plays the titular George, also told Yahoo about the importance of performing the songs on the show.
“A lot of the story of these two people is told through the songs,” he said. “A lot of the excitement and the relationship they had was from singing together, whether they were married or divorced or married to other people or their whole lives.”
Warning: She revealed that before she went on stage to perform the 1980 country hit, she found herself warning the young extras sitting in the crowd not to listen to the lyrics.
“They bonded when they sang and had a very intimate communication with each other that I don’t think we could have achieved if we were just lip-syncing to the music,” Shannon added.
Jessica’s work on George & Tammy isn’t the only project she’s worked on recently. Her films Memory and Mother’s Instinct are in post-production.
Soon he will star in The Division, the story of a virus and the people who survive and try to save humanity.
Jake Gyllenhaal is also signed up for the film directed by Red Notice director Rawson Marshall Thurber.
Performance: Speaking to The Guardian, Jessica said: “I looked at all these sweet, young faces looking at me and I said, ‘Girls: I don’t want you to hear the lyrics to this song!’