Jessica Chastain needed a ‘bit of a breather’ from Oscar Isaac friendship
nypost.combicep kiss heard round the world.When Oscar Isaac, 44, planted his lips on the left arm of his “Scenes From a Marriage” co-star Jessica Chastain, 46, on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival in 2021, he appeared to have shed the baggage of their fictional broken marriage.But in a new Vanity Fair profile, Chastain revealed filming the gut-wrenching HBO miniseries took a toll on her longtime friendship with Isaac.“‘Scenes From a Marriage’ was very tough,” Chastain told the outlet in a story published Tuesday. “And I love Oscar, but the reality is, our friendship has never quite been the same.”The Oscar winner‘s relationship with the other Oscar dates back to the turn of the century, when they were classmates at Juilliard.
The pair have remained close and even played a married couple in “A Most Violent Year” (2014), after Chastain personally campaigned for Isaac to have the role.
When they reunited for “Scenes From a Marriage,” the stars’ closeness sparked electric on-screen chemistry — but portraying a couple going through a divorce brought up feelings that were difficult to leave behind when the cameras stopped rolling.As Chastain said in the Vanity Fair interview, “We’re going to be OK, but after shooting the show], I was like, I need a little bit of a breather.
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