Jessica Chastain wants to do right by evangelist Tammy Faye Messner. Chastain depicts Messner in director Michael Showalter’s upcoming biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye”, based on the RuPaul-narrated 2000 documentary of the same name.
The two-time Oscar-nominated actress was eager to share Messner’s story after seeing the doc. “I think it was the award circuit for ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ and people were asking what I wanted to do next, and the Tammy Faye documentary was on TV and I watched it and thought, Wow, this feels like an incredible part,” Chastain tells L’Officiel magazine for the magazine’s Fall 2021 cover issue. “The singing, the preaching, everything about her. “It ticked all the boxes because, for me, it also rights a wrong.
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