Jessica Chastain Not Starring in 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo' *???*

[trekkiepetrelli]

Jessica Chastain reveals that she is “not doing” the film adaptation of ‘THE SEVEN HUSBANDS OF EVELYN HUGO.’ https://t.co/My2raeKjeO pic.twitter.com/gfZnMnCh2W
- Film Updates (@FilmUpdates) April 19, 2023

• Via tiktok, a fan asked Jessica Chastain to sign a copy of her 'The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo', after seeing her performance in 'A Doll's House

Comments

[sarafina126]

Isn't Evelyn supposed to be Latina? It has been awhile since I read it.

[givemesushi]

yes. It'd make more sense if she was being fancast as Celia, who is a white redhead.

[dreamdate]

that is who she was fancasted as.

[blandinavian]

Yep, I'm pretty sure her mother was Cuban.

[totteringg]

Were people just saying Jessica Chastain should do it because she wears emerald dresses?

[micce2233]

Yeah, she’s Cuban (or at least her mother is) and she’s described as tan…
Celia is a pale redhead tho so maybe people just get the characters mixed up

[frodo]

She's getting fancast as Celia, not Evelyn

[ginainabottle]

People were fancasting Ana De Armas for Evelyn, Jessica would be Celia.

[sabrina54]

Ya but I meant, if you didn't know both main characters are supposed to be WoC you would think they were white. Monique didn't come across as a Black woman at all, her bizarre take that doesn't have Black friends because she's not Black enough for Black people or white enough for white people was a trip. The only other Black person being nothing more than a plot device.

And Hispanic readers have been saying how obvious it is that TJR did no researched on Cuban culture and how the Latine characters are straight up harmful stereotypes.

And Queer readers have pointed out even in a supposedly Queer romance they couldn't got away from the dead lesbian syndrome and the bury your gays bullshit.

It honestly would've been a better book if it was about white people and messy white hetero relationships in old Hollywood.

[dreamdate]

The dead lesbian syndrome confuses me bc if I remember correctly, Evelyn and Celia get married and like grow old together before Celia dies and then Evelyn does. The straight men died before Celia did!

[sabrina54]

*Gonna try my best not to spoil :/

They spent decades married to people they didn't want/love and when they FINALLY got together they only had 10 years in which Celia was sick and slowly dying. And all the people they went to Spain with also had tragic deaths. It would've been another thing if they got a few decades in Spain where they built a family and had a happy life but they didn't get any of that.

[dreamdate]

I don't want to negate anyone's feelings, because there are certainly valid criticisms to the book. I say this as a Latina and a queer woman. I just felt like, for the time this all takes place, much of it makes sense. They weren't very young when they were finally able to marry, so for them to get 10 years is more than we can say for a lot of queer couples we see onscreen even today. Plus the added memories in between. I do see where it's like..damn, all that torture, and now she's dying?? But they truly did have a life together and made the best of it.