Jessica Chastain opens up on family struggle as she remembers going without food as a child
metro.co.ukJessica Chastain has reflected on the poverty she experienced, being raised by a single mother who sometimes struggled to feed her five children, saying that she ‘grew up with a lot of resentment’.The award-winning actress, 44, is now paid millions of dollars for her roles in movies including IT Chapter Two and Molly’s Game but talked about people ‘expecting’ her to come from a privileged background due to the position she holds now.Talking to The Sunday Times Style magazine, she admitted: ‘I have a rebellious streak because I grew up with a lot of resentment, because we didn’t have things, like even food …‘I don’t talk about it much, but it was really, um, it was not what you would expect.
When people see me, I think they expect a different background than I have.’The Scenes from a Marriage actress, who enjoyed a mad viral armpit-kiss moment with co-star Oscar Isaac, also married into an Italian noble family, when she tied the knot with Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo in 2017, an Italian count who works in the fashion industry.But it’s not made her forget her roots, with Chastain adding that it makes her ‘angry’ to see anyone else ‘be denied’ anything.‘So because I come from that place, I know what it’s like,’ she explained. ‘And it makes me angry.
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