NME to mark the 10-year anniversary of their seminal indie film Take Shelter.In the film, the pair play a happily married couple until Shannon’s character Curtis begins to have terrifying visions of an incoming apocalypse.“Listen, he’s one of our greatest actors and I strongly stand by that,” Chastain told NME.She continued: “There’s something about Mike… I feel like I see him.
I know him in a way that maybe most people look beyond or look away from.”Chastain went on to say that Hollywood has a habit of putting Shannon in villainous or threatening roles on account of presumptions about his physical presence. “He’s a big guy, and so intense that our industry tends to put him in really intimidating parts, because they like to play on his.
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