Not even a stumble was going to carry Jessica Chastain down. “I’ve very, very, very comfortable,” Jessica, 45, instructed Entry Hollywood following the 2023 Display Actors Guild Award, the place she received Greatest Feminine Actor in a Tv Film or Sequence for George & Tammy. Jessica took the prize over Emily Blunt (The English), Julia Garner (Inventing Anna), Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer), and Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout), and the shock of victory resulted in her becoming a member of the checklist of best award present falls. “I’m strolling up there, and I notice I’m in bother as a result of my complete physique is shaking, and I’m like, ‘OK I’m gonna need assistance up the steps,’ after which I began to journey,” she instructed Entry Hollywood. Fortunately, the autumn wasn’t too dangerous, and she or he might rise up to the rostrum in a single piece.
Simply realized that Jessica Chastain tripped on her strategy to the stage 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/q5eXkSxtAb
— Valen TheThing Period (@StarcoVision) February 27, 2023
“The shock of final night time actually swept me off my toes!” Jessica later tweeted together with a video of her acceptance speech. “To my fellow SAG members, THANK YOU. It means a lot to be acknowledged by you. I’m honored to have the ability to carry the story of #GeorgeAndTammy to you. I liked enjoying Tammy Wynette. Thanks @georgette_jones for trusting me along with your mother’s story, Abe Sylvia, for crafting it into our stunning 6 episodes, the GOAT #michaelshannon, & the village at @showtime. I’m again in NY and nonetheless over the moon.”
The shock of final night time actually swept me off my toes! 😅 To my fellow SAG members, THANK YOU. It means a lot to be acknowledged by you. I’m honored to have the ability to carry the story of #GeorgeAndTammy to you. I liked enjoying Tammy Wynette. pic.twitter.com/4sN5MvLzQI
— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) February 27, 2023
Jessica additionally instructed PEOPLE that she was a “little embarrassed’ by the stumble, but it surely had a silver lining. “I tripped on the steps — however I had two very good-looking males serving to me up, in order that wasn’t so dangerous,” she mentioned of the boys, one among which was Paul Mescal. “I’m simply so over the moon and comfortable, and I can’t imagine it,” added Jessica, who claimed her third SAG Award.
Jessica is at the moment performing in a Broadway manufacturing of A Doll’s Home, which she talked about in her speech. “On daily basis after the present I get the chance to satisfy folks on the stage door, and I get to satisfy plenty of actors who inform me their tales,” she mentioned, earlier than saying how the late Philip Seymour Hoffman got here to talk at her faculty class. “He instructed us all his irritating tales about auditions, and he inspired us to maintain going even once we felt like nobody was watching us. And on the finish of the discuss, he mentioned, ‘I look ahead to working with every of you,’ and it actually shocked me as a result of it was like he introduced it into being. Just a few years later it got here true, and I had the chance to do a play with him.”
“I’m telling this story now as a result of it jogs my memory of how highly effective our thoughts is and that we’re what our ideas create,” she added. “So I simply wanna inform everybody who is likely to be struggling at house, to all of the actors that I get to satisfy: Hold going. You’re one job away. I look ahead to working with you. I’ll see you on set. I really like you.”
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