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Women perform great in the box office. Audiences want to see lead female characters.

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Jessica Chastain
Age: 47
Born: 1977
Born: March 24
Actor
Film Actress
Film Producer
Sacramento
California
Jessica Michelle Chastain
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Character
Audiences
Women
Perform
Great
Boxes
Female
Characters
Lead
Office

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Most of the women I spoke to were pushing agendas that they felt connected to - more so than with the male lobbyists I met with.
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Look at Hispanic women - they are being paid 42 cents on the dollar - or African-American women. I think it's an issue we have to look at across the board.
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People were confused by me, and at first I was auditioning a lot for the crazy characters or the victim, someone who'd been attacked. Which is great, because usually those are the best acting roles.
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I take great responsibility in any character that I play.
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Broadway has always been a dream of mine.
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I can't even open my eyes underwater.
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Someone doesn't think immediately, I want to be a lobbyist.
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We need more points of view from women and we need more support for female directors and writers in the industry.
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I spent a lot of the last five years on a set, and every once in a while you take stock of your life and look at what you're doing.
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I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is crying, even if it's not appropriate. I have that thing in me, a weakness or sensitivity.
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I think you have to take the whole idea of wage equality out of the film industry.
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Maybe that's because there are so few women lobbyists if they're there, it's for something they strongly believe in, not just for financial gain.
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I love fall because I love the whole cuddling aspect of it, and a sweater dress has that vibe of I'm going to hunker down and be warm, but it's also very feminine.
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I remember being a teenager and having a boyfriend - this guy I thought I was way better than, and completely out of his league. He was a year younger than me. And he broke up with me. It was so shocking, and I couldn't believe it.
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I don't want to be in my car all day. I love getting up in the morning in Venice and walking my dogs down to the café to get my tea, and then perhaps going to a bookstore and sitting and reading, then walking to the beach.
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I'm really lucky because my goal, as an actor, is to disappear into the characters that I'm playing.
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