Jessica Chastain is still very mad about the Jeremy Strong profile

[just444]

Aaron Sorkin doesn’t have social media so asked me to post this letter on his behalf xx pic.twitter.com/3Ol1KGoJKM
- Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) December 10, 2021

update to this and this post

yes, she is still going. Posting an open letter from Sorkin defending Strong and getting into it with journalists

Comments

[blahblah890]

I think the classism critiques since Jeremy was a working class actor are interesting. Anyone have thoughts?

[erin805]

It didn’t feel particularly critical or mean spirited to me, that’s why I think it’s so odd she’s going this hard with it. If anything the piece seemed like it was acknowledging how hard it is to break through and that his methods are crazy his results are stellar

[la_petite_singe]

Idk, seeing that he's 100% not a nepotism celeb or from a rich family made me respect his insane hard work more. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Yes, he's still a hwhite man, but that won't get you into Hollywood all by itself.

[holyfrijoles_2]

Tbh I wished the article focused a bit more on how his insane drive was absolutely caused by the fact that he didn’t have money/a famous parent to fall back on and without those two things you essentially have to work yourself to the bone to claw your way to the top in Hollywood. Yes his journey was made vastly easier by being a cishet white man but there’s still some merit to discussing that as an aspect to his character.

I’ve seen people call him a “social climber” which feels really unfair bc without those connections he made he would not be in the position he is today. The Chris Evans connection is especially interesting bc Chris also wrote letters to get internships like Jeremy but the difference is that Chris’ parents are upper middle class people and paid for his rent while he initially moved to LA (and then he got cast in some shitty tv show that lasted like three episodes iirc after like three months in LA. which is insane luck btw).

[roo_bug]

I think they show where the article went wrong - by including so much detail on his background and then going in on his eccentricities and his acting method without ever considering whether all three are perhaps related left a pretty big gap in the narrative to me, and is why I think people who know him might have read it as mean-spirited (not the defend Jessica Chastain, who is doing truly the most here). To read between the lines a bit it sounds as though, especially to people who have worked with him over the course of his career, he's very committed to giving the best performance and that he's dedicated to his particular method but that they respect that because they understand where it comes from

[curdlesnoots]

I kind of cringe when people roll out the quotes about method acting from British theatre stars because most of them got to go to fancy schools and/or universities with strong drama programs, usually supported by their well-off parents, and then got paid to tour the country doing Shakespeare. There just wasn’t and isn’t the same kind of technical training for American actors.

Not defending pain in the ass method actors but there’s a reason the upper-class and nepotism dominates acting in the UK, and US.

Also Laurence Olivier hit Maggie Smith so hard he knocked her out and insisted on donning black face to play Othello in the same production so while he might be right about method acting and Dustin Hoffman, he’s just as bad.

[sh0ckeye]

Jeremy is from US. His stans are co-opting the uk classim structure very prevalent in uk entertainment industry to wokeify him ass kissing his way into hollywood. like hey good on him for hustling but it's nothing to do with the uk working class narrative, where not being posh with a private education, rp accent or graduating from drama schools are barriers to entries, that they are trying to apply here.

[megalixer]

Not much to add about Jeremy that others haven’t covered, but iirc Jessica is from a working class background too, didn’t break out in a big way until later in life, etc. and I wonder if that’s why she seems to identify with him so hard and is taking this SO personally. (not that the armchair white knighting ain’t cringe cause it absolutely is, but maybe she feels like she’s had to work similarly hard to get ahead)