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  • Jessica Chastain: “Crimson Peak” Actress Incognito, But Not for Halloween

    Jessica Chastain is almost unrecognizable on the November W magazine cover and on the inside spread. The Crimson Peak actress wasn’t simply scouring for Halloween options, but underwent a style transformation that showed off her very diverse personality and range of talents.

    This marked the third time Jessica Chastain covered W, but this cover and spread are unlike anything she’s done before.

    Part of the spread features Jessica Chastain with long, hot-pink hair. In the rest, the star of The Martian sports platinum blonde locks, styled in a pompadour.

    An interview inside W proves that Jessica Chastain’s personality is as adaptable as her appearance. She dishes on a future film role she’d love to score.

    “One of my goals is to play a villain in a Bond film. People ask me if I want to be a Bond girl, and I say, ‘No, I want to be the villain.’ I’m waiting for that call!”

    Besides Crimson Peak and The Martian, Jessica Chastain is known for roles in Interstellar, Zero Dark Thirty, and The Help.

    Would you have readily recognized Jessica Chastain had her name not been on the W magazine cover and within its pages?

    Do these Jessica Chastain shots give you any ideas for Halloween?

  • Jessica Chastain Appears in New Trailer for Horror Film ‘Crimson Peak’

    Jessica Chastain appears in a new trailer for the upcoming horror film Crimson Peak.

    Set in a three story Victorian mansion on an abandoned lot, the haunted house in Crimson Peak seemingly takes on a mind of its own, replete with demonic voices, shadowy figures, and creepy sounds emerging from every corner. Lady Lucille Sharpe (played by Jessica Chastain) and her questionable intentions are highlighted in the trailer as she tells Edith (played by Mia Wasikowska) to avoid certain parts of the spooky home.

    In addition to Jessica Chastain and Mia Wasikowska, director Guillermo del Toro has cast Sons of Anarchy’s Charlie Hunnam and Tom Hiddleston in the horror flick.

    Even Stephen King believes the film is worthy of those who love horror.

    In addition to Crimson Peak, Jessica Chastain is known for her work in films including The Help and Interstellar.

    Will you be checking out Mia Wasikowska, Charlie Hunnam, Tom Hiddleston, and Jessica Chastain when Crimson Peak opens in theaters in October?

    Given that Crimson Peak received Stephen King’s endorsement, it might well be the best horror flick to hit theaters during the Halloween season in a long time.

  • Jessica Chastain’s Glamorous Outfit Becomes The Star Of Oscar Night

    Jessica Chastain is known for her fiery red hair and keen sense of fashion. When she showed up in the Oscar red carpet, the A Most Violent Year and Interstellar star didn’t disappoint with her glamorous navy blue Givenchy gown. Chastain kept her hair simple and wore make-up by Kiehl’s and sported jewelry by by Piaget. But truly, the star of the night was Chastain’s dress which featured a beaded top along with a sash that accentuated her neckline and cleavage. Chastain was at the Oscars to present an award. She has been nominated twice before. In 2012 she was nominated for Best Actress for her work in Zero Dark Thirty and also for Best Supporting Actress for her role in The Help the year before.

    The dress Chastain wore for the Oscars was in stark contrast to the elegant but casual outfit she wore to the pre-Oscars party. For the party, the actress opted to wear a simple navy dress and a jacket that featured textured panels with small textile squares as well as ornate beading and floral sequins. She also wore navy blue pumps that matched the dress and chose to tie her beautiful locks in a ponytail.

    In an interview with The Telegraph earlier this year, Chastain revealed that her hair actually was hindrance early in her career. “People would tell me to dye it blond when I first started auditioning in LA. Funny how defined we are by how we present ourselves to the world. I’m either thought of as ethereal or fiery. And maybe that’s the interesting thing about red hair: there’s that fiery Renaissance connotation and the ethereal,” Chastain said.

    She adds, “Before then, I wasn’t getting parts because people kept telling me I wasn’t pretty enough. But I’ve come to realize that everyone’s idea of what’s pretty is so different. And this morning, for example, I had someone do my hair and make-up before I met with you. Mine is a strange industry.”

  • Jessica Chastain: From High School Dropout to Hollywood Royalty

    Jessica Chastain may have dropped out of high school as a teen, but she is certainly showing where her talents lie with two Oscar nominations, a Golden Globe award and much critical acclaim.

    The 37-year-old actress told Entertainment Weekly Thursday that she didn’t graduate from high school. Chastain attended Sacramento’s El Camino Fundamental High School, but never received her diploma.

    “Nobody knows this about me — I dropped out of high school,” Chastain told the magazine. “I was not a hard worker. I was a terrible student.”

    Like so many other artistic types, the A Most Violent Year actress was just biding her time until she found her niche in life, and she sure found her niche.

    The Interstellar actress has starred in a slew of big films, including Zero Dark Thirty, Mama, The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby, and the upcoming Crimson Peak.

    “Eventually I got my adult diploma, but I did not graduate,” said Chastain, who later attended Juilliard through a scholarship from Robin Williams when she was 22. “It wasn’t that I just dropped out and never went back — at the end of the year I had too many absences to graduate… I would cut school and sit in my car, reading Shakespeare.”

    Chastain, who was nominated for an Oscar for her roles in 2012’s Zero Dark Thirty and 2011’s The Help, said her failure to complete high school did effect her confidence.

    “I thought that I wasn’t an intelligent person because I did so poorly,” she said. “There are kids out there that aren’t doing well in school and I hope they never think it means they’re stupid. It’s all about finding where your interest lies and finding what you’re good at.”

    Yep, it’s all about finding your niche in life.

  • Anne Hathaway Gives Up ‘Disgusting’ Smoking Habit For A Second Time

    Anne Hathaway has given up smoking — for a second time.

    The Les Misérables star told The New York Times Magazine that she has struggled over the years with a smoking habit.

    The first time Hathaway, 32, got hooked was in 2008 when she was filming the Oscar-nominated Rachel Getting Married, in which she played an addict.

    She gave it up for a while, only to pick the habit back up for a second time.

    “I’ve quit,” she told the magazine after quitting for a second time. “I got hooked for a few years.”

    “I had a four-year break, and then actually when I was producing Song One, I started smoking again,” she said. “It’s easy to romanticize it when you haven’t done it in a while, but it’s actually pretty disgusting.”

    She said she is thrilled to be rid of those “disgusting” cigarettes, however, the Interstellar actress said she has nothing against e-cigs.

    “I don’t judge the vape,” she admitted. “I know some people who used to be three-pack-a-day smokers, and I’d much prefer them having the vape. I don’t want to give them any excuse not to vape.”

    Hathaway also admitted that she has another New Year’s Resolution, although she hesitated to mention it.

    “I have one, but I don’t want to mention it because it’s scaring me,” the Oscar-winning actress said. “And it has nothing to do with pregnancy. But it’s not because of a problem. It’s just because why not: I’m going to really prioritize my health this year and not drink, at least not in January. I want to take a month off.”

  • Jessica Chastain Buys Mom an Unusual but Cool Birthday Gift — a Food Truck

    Jessica Chastain has bought a rather odd birthday gift for her mother — a food truck.

    Well, it’s not that odd considering the Interstellar star’s mom, Jerri Hastey, is a vegan chef.

    Chastain shared the news on Monday’s appearance on The Ellen Degeneres Show, where she wished her mom a happy birthday.

    “It’s called Seed On The Go and it’s very, very exciting,” the 27-year-old actress told fellow vegan Degeneres. “She used to have a restaurant and now she’s more mobile.”

    The daytime talk show host quipped back, “So she can just drive around her restaurant anywhere she wants to go.”

    Anyone watching @TheEllenShow today? We talk about my Mom's food truck. Happy Birthday Mom! #seedonthego #Interstellar

    A photo posted by Jessica Chastain (@chastainiac) on

    Chastain shared a photo of Hastey peeking out of the truck’s service window with a glass of wine in her hand, to which Chastain quickly clarified the mobile vegan kitchen does not actually serve wine.

    “The funny thing is, that [photo] was on her Facebook page and she was so excited about the food truck, and I went and looked on her Facebook page and was like, ‘mom, you don’t understand the idea of a truck and wine. You cannot be sitting in the driver’s seat with a glass of wine hanging out the window!” laughed Chastain.

    Post by seed ON THE GO.

    Chastain said the menu on the Santa Rosa, California-based food truck will feature some of the actress’ favorite items, including a sloppy seed burger, sweet potato corn tacos, pancakes and strawberry shortcake.

    “The last time I was here I talked about her chia pudding and that will be on the truck,” reassured Chastain.

    Post by seed ON THE GO.

  • Anne Hathaway On Interstellar Promotional Tour, Talks About Catwoman And Haters

    Anne Hathaway is currently busy promoting her new film, the Christopher Nolan-directed Interstellar. But aside from talking about the film, she has managed to discuss moments in her recent past including her role as Catwoman in The Dark Knight Rises as well as her constant battle against her haters. Speaking to IGN, the actress expressed her desire to don the Catwoman outfit again. “I would be totally up for doing it,” she said. “If Chris [Nolan] was involved. For me, the thing that made doing that part particularly fun was that she existed in his Gotham. Without him, I don’t think it would be the same thing. But I also wonder about that part. If because she’s a thief, it’s not better to have her be a small part in a larger film. So she can go through and steal aspects of the film, but when the focus is squarely on her, I don’t know if it works as well.”

    Hathaway also took time to address her haters in a recent article in Harper’s Bazaar. She has been the target of attacks because of her squeaky clean image, and the constant criticism even led to articles that tackled this particular aspect of her career. She talked to Harper’s about the time she came across one of these articles online. She said she felt “punched in the gut… shocked and slapped and embarrassed. Even now I can feel the shame.” She even said that the bad press started to cost her roles because directors and producers didn’t like her public image.

    But that might all change with Hathaway’s involvement in Interstellar. The film, which also stars Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain, has been getting rave reviews. There are even rumors that the film is a definite candidate for the Best Picture win at the 2015 Academy Awards.

  • Matt Damon To Shrink In Size For New Role

    Looks like Matt Damon will be very busy for the next couple of years.

    The actor has recently signed on to play a character going through bad times, who decides to shrink himself in hopes that his smaller size will make his life better. The film is called Downsizing. It will be directed and written by Alexander Payne (The Descendants, Sideways, Election).

    The social satire is currently in development. Joining Payne in writing the screenplay is Jim Taylor, who worked with the auteur on Sideways. Payne’s production company, Ad Hominem Enterprises, will produce.

    Damon is also set to star in Ridley Scott’s upcoming science fiction movie The Martian about an astronaut who gets stranded on Mars and struggles to survive. Also starring in The Martian are Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, and Kristen Wiig.

    In September, it was revealed that Damon would take another turn, his fourth, as Jason Bourne. Universal also signed director Paul Greengrass to the project, who worked with Damon on The Bourne Ultimatum and The Bourne Supremacy. The action film should be ready for release in July 2016.

    In what may be Bourne-overload at the box office next summer, Jeremy Renner’s spinoff sequel The Bourne Betrayal, is also slated for a July 2016 release. Can Universal pull off two Bourne movies in one month?

    If you want to see Matt Damon on the big screen this weekend, he has a small role in Christopher Nolan’s epic science fiction movie Interstellar. The film is making its debut at the box office today. The tagline, “A group of explorers make use of a newly discovered wormhole to surpass the limitations on human space travel and conquer the vast distances involved in an interstellar voyage.” The movie stars Matthew McConaughey, Anne Hathaway, and Jessica Chastain.

  • Anne Hathaway Doesn’t Shake Hands Because Of Ebola?

    It looks like there may be another “Hathahater” out there in the form of a journalist from Argentina. A reporter named Alexis Puig bashed Anne Hathaway on social media for not shaking his hand for what he claims was because she was scared of catching Ebola.

    Puig went to Los Angeles last week for the premiere of Christopher Nolan’s science fiction film Interstellar. He sent a tweet from the screening, which has since been deleted from his page, “Anne Hathaway no me dio la mano ‘por miedo al ebola’ #soyunperiodistadeltercermundo,” which in English translates to, “Anne Hathaway didn’t shake my hand because she was she was afraid of ebola #I’mAThirdWorldJournalist.”

    Puig later went a step further by writing that Hathaway’s co-stars Matthew McConaughey and Jessica Chastain both shook his hand. The reporter also noted that they were both friendly when he was interviewing them about the film. “Thank you to everyone for your comments. Luckily I’m already in Buenos Aires, Argentina (city and country free of Ebola)…and at home Anne?”

    A rep for Hathaway explained the situation, “That is nonsense – she wasn’t shaking anyone’s hands because she was coming down with a cold and didn’t want to get anyone sick.”

    Ebola has obviously been on everyone’s mind over the past few weeks. However, Puig also appears to be jumping to conclusions. She didn’t shake his hand, it doesn’t mean that she thinks he has a deadly disease. However, if publicity and Hathaway bashing was Puig’s goal, the journalist from Argentina got what he wanted, #annehathawayebola is currently trending on Twitter.

    Over 10,000 people have contracted the Ebola virus during this latest outbreak. However, only 27 cases have occurred outside of Sierra Leone, Liberia, and Guinea.

    The much-anticipated Interstellar opens nationwide on November 7. The synopsis for the film, “With our time on Earth coming to an end, a team of explorers undertakes the most important mission in human history; traveling beyond this galaxy to discover whether mankind has a future among the stars.”

  • Anne Hathaway Recalls Her First (Awkward) Encounter With Matthew McConaughey

    Anne Hathaway and Matthew McConaughey’s first meeting was a little on the embarrassing side for the Les Misérables actress.

    At a recent tribute to McConaughey, Hathaway shared with the audience her awkward first encounter with her good friend.

    According to Hathaway, 31, after an invitation was extended from McConaughey to a party he was throwing at his home, she and husband Adam Shulman showed up for the party just a little late.

    “Matthew goes, ‘Yeah, you gotta come in,’” Hathaway recalled. “Matthew turns around, again (with) a smile and goes, ‘The party was last night’.”

    Of course, the generous McConaughey invited Hathaway and her husband inside for a drink anyway.

    “That glass of wine lead to the first bottle. I stopped counting after four and then I went with you to someone’s surprise birthday party that night…You were so good to me and Adam,” Hathaway said.

    Hathaway and McConaughey worked together on the movie Interstellar, where she said his personality and acting were amazing.

    “I don’t know what to expect, but I meet you and you are present,” Hathaway said. “You seem so cool and you seem so sincere and I walk away and I think, Wow, that guy’s just amazing.”

    McConaughey seems to be a pretty chill guy, and it looks like some of that may may have rubbed off on Hathaway, who recently decided to pose topless for the November 2014 issue of Harper’s Bazaar.

    The notoriously high-strung actress told the magazine she is learning to let negative feelings go.

    “For a long time I was afraid of the harsh things people would say about me, but I might as well be happy,” she said.

    Hathaway said more good things about her friend to the magazine, saying he is “the most daring man” she knows primarily because “he never judged himself along the way and it’s all come together for him.”

  • Anne Hathaway Says Fame “F–ked” Her Up

    Despite her continuing success, actress Anne Hathaway is just now stepping back into Hollywood after a year-long hiatus.

    “My impression is that people needed a break from me,” she laughed in an interview with Huffington Post.

    After winning an Academy Award for her role in the 2013 film musical Les Miserables, Hathaway made the decision to take a step away due to the weight of the attention, both positive and negative, she was receiving.

    “This fame thing? F–ked me up for a really long time,” the 31-year-old told Elle UK. “I didn’t know how to do it; I didn’t know how to engage with it; it stressed me out. And people would say, ‘You just have to be yourself,’ and I was like, ‘But I don’t know who that is yet!’”

    But now Hathaway is gearing up for the release of Christopher Nolan’s new sci-fi film, Interstellar, which follows a team of space travelers who travel through a wormhole. Matthew McConaughey also stars alongside Hathaway.

    “The man speaks in poetry,” Hathaway said of McConaughey. “I remember once while we were filming, something got screwed up, and he said to me: ‘Look, we can get upset about this, or we can go with it and have a great story for the rest of our lives.’”

    Hathaway, who also focused on her marriage to Adam Shulman during her time off, now says she is ready to step back into the limelight, critics be damned.

    “I’ve realized that don’t need validation from anybody. At all. I’m not sitting here now worrying, ‘What do you think of me?’ With all due respect, you seem like a lovely lady, but I don’t need you, or anyone else, to like me. And that’s so liberating. It’s a big reveal, man.”

    Along with Interstellar, which hits theaters on November 7, Hathaway can also be seen in Song One, which recently premiered at the Sundance Film Festival. However, despite the title, she doesn’t sing.

    “No, no. And it’s a very different film than [Les Miserables], but I don’t play a singer or a musician – I play an anthropologist.”

  • Matt Damon Turns 43 Today, Happy Birthday!

    Award winning actor, writer and all around good guy Matt Damon turns 43 today. Damon shares his birthday with am impressive list of Hollywood royalty, Chevy Chase (70), Sigourney Weaver (64), Darrell Hammond (58) and some of the younger generation, Bruno Mars (28), Angus T. Jones (20).

    For those of us who remember Damon playing the bad guy in School Ties (1992) it is hard to believe that it’s over 20 years later and the Boston, Mass, native is now the elder statesman for up-and-comers. Recently, Cillian Murphy referenced Damon as a role model, “I admire people like Matt Damon—he just continues to do brilliant work and that’s it. That’s the model I’d like to follow.” Ok, well Murphy is only six-years junior to Damon, but you get the idea.

    The Academy Award winner was seen doing some good last week. He took a moment to introduce Professor Diane Ravitch, a friend of his mother’s, for her speech during the Education on the Edge speaker series at California State University Northridge. Damon said of Ravitch, “She’s America’s foremost historian in the areas of education policy, she’s a champion of public education, she’s a courageous speaker and she’s a truth-teller.”

    Dean of the school’s college of education, Michael Spagna, considered the appearance of the celebrated actor opportune for education, “I think if we can transfer some of that cultural appreciation that we have for actors like Matt Damon to teachers, we’ve done a great thing…”

    Ben Wishaw/Matt Damon

    Damon is keeping a hefty filming schedule through the end of the year, with Elysium having just released in August (US release) the actor has three other films in the works. The Zero Theorem will be released at the Venice Film Festival in December. The film is directed by visionary, Terry Gilliam, who posts on the official Facebook page that Matt and British actor Ben Wishaw will share the same part, “since work for film actors is very slow these days.” That’s Wishaw superimposed on Damon’s face.

    In post-production, The Monuments Men re-teams Damon with George Clooney (director, co-writer and star) and will be released in December. The story is set during World War II and follows a crew of art historians and museum curators around the battlefields while they protect works of art from destruction.

    Finally, Damon is filming Interstellar, which will not premiere until November 2014.

    [Image via Zero Theorem and Sony Pictures Facebook.]

  • NASA’s Voyager 1 Enters Interstellar Space

    NASA’s Voyager 1 Enters Interstellar Space

    NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft, launched in 1977, has left our solar system, to become the first man-made object to enter interstellar space. New data shows that the craft is presently traveling through plasma, the ionized gas that makes up the space between stars, roughly 12 billion miles from the sun.

    NASA reports that the probe had entered the plasma region about a year ago, though is in a transitional area, to where the effects of our sun are still present. Ed Stone, a Voyager project scientist based at the California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, says, “now that we have new, key data, we believe this is mankind’s historic leap into interstellar space. The Voyager team needed time to analyze those observations and make sense of them. But we can now answer the question we’ve all been asking, ‘Are we there yet?’ Yes, we are.”

    The Voyager craft doesn’t have a plasma sensor, so scientists had to get creative in order to figure out what sort of environment it was in. In March, 2012, the sun emitted a burst of solar wind and magnetic fields called a coronal mass ejection, giving scientists what they’d needed to get a general idea of the craft’s position. It took 13 months for this burst to hit Voyager, and on April 9, the probe’s plasma wave instrument showed the density of the plasma in the space it was in – about 40 times more dense that what was previously gauged in the outer layer of the heliosphere.

    The analysis of the new data was conducted by the plasma wave science team at the University of Iowa, led by Don Gurnett. “We literally jumped out of our seats when we saw these oscillations in our data – they showed us the spacecraft was in an entirely new region, comparable to what was expected in interstellar space, and totally different than in the solar bubble,” Gurnett said, adding, “clearly we had passed through the heliopause, which is the long-hypothesized boundary between the solar plasma and the interstellar plasma.”

    When Voyager 1 was launched decades ago, it’s primary objective was to obtain detailed images from the Jovian and Saturnian systems, which was accomplished in 1980. Presently, the nuclear-powered craft is traveling at about 11 miles per second, and likely won’t be able to power any of its instruments by 2025. The craft is loaded with a gold-plated disc full of audio and visual information, in case any sentient beings from other planets come across it. The disc includes pictures of earth and earthlings, various sounds including whale calls and baby cries, and music by Mozart and Chuck Berry. The scientific information included also kindly gives aliens pointers on how to more easily defeat us.

    Image courtesy of Wikimeida Commons.