Jessica Chastain Says Oscar Isaac Friendship ‘Has Never Been Quite the Same’ After Playing a Divorced Couple on HBO’s ‘Scenes’: I Needed ‘A Breather’ After
02.08.2023 - 18:49
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac set social media on fire in 2021 due to their electric chemistry on the Venice Film Festival red carpet for HBO’s “Scenes From a Marriage.” The devastating limited series, based on Ingmar Bergman’s 1973 miniseries of the same name, cast the two actors as a married couple going through a grueling divorce. Chastain told Vanity Fair her and Isaac’s longtime friendship hasn’t been the same since. “‘Scenes From a Marriage’ was very tough,” Chastain said.
“And I love Oscar [Isaac], but the reality is, our friendship has never quite been the same. We’re going to be okay, but after that, I was like, I need a little bit of a breather. There was so much ‘I love you, I hate you’ in that series.” “But there’s so much joy in what I get to do,” the Oscar winner added.
“There’s a lot of catharsis. I feel like I have the best job in the world because I get to have these experiences. They’re so out of this world and feel like they’re mine.
But then I live a very quiet life. I don’t have to have these tortured things in my life. I play them and I experience them, and then I come home and I live quietly and peacefully.” Isaac earned an Emmy nomination for his performance in “Scenes From a Marriage,” while both performers picked up Golden Globe nominations.
Variety critic Daniel D’Addario praised the actors in his review, writing, “What’s to watch for is the fireworks as Chastain and Isaac immolate one another, and those are indeed spectacular.” Elsewhere in her Vanity Fair interview, Chastain opened up on the SAG-AFTRA strike. The conversation took place just a day before the strike began. “I don’t think it’s fair.
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