THIS EPISODE WAS RECORDED PRIOR TO THE ACTORS’ STRIKE.

This week’s visitor is Jessica Chastain.

Contemporary off a Tony nomination for her function in Jamie Lloyd’s Broadway revival of A Dolls’ Home, Chastain is Emmy-nominated for her flip as nation singer Tammy Wynette in Showtime’s six-part collection George & Tammy, which co-stars Michael Shannon as George Jones.

Throughout our chat, Chastain went deep into why Wynette was criticized for her apparently submissive function in performing her iconic track “Stand By Your Man”. Chastain, who sang reside whereas taking pictures the present, peeled again the layers of Wynette’s expertise at the moment in Nashville, and why feminism discovered the “unsuitable goal” in Wynette.

The Oscar-winner additionally dished about her function alongside good good friend Anne Hathaway within the upcoming thriller Moms’ Intuition, and Reminiscence with Peter Sarsgaard.

And naturally there’s the ’20 Questions’ on the coronary heart of the episode, wherein Chastain recollects her early years and muses on her ongoing inspirations and touchstones.

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