Jessica Chastain is putting a lot of skin on display in this new look!
13.09.2021 - 07:19 / variety.com
Clayton Davis Oscars voters have always loved seeing actors whose startling physical transformations come after countless hours in the makeup chair.After Renée Zellweger (“Judy”), Marion Cotillard (“La Vie en Rose”) and Charlize Theron (“Monster”) won Oscars for their impressively-altered looks, Jessica Chastain could be on a similar path for her role as the media-loving televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in Michael Showalter’s “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.” Following a world bow at the Toronto
.Jessica Chastain is putting a lot of skin on display in this new look!
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The Eyes of Tammy Faye, one of the many new movies in theaters now.I took a look at theaters near me to compare movie showtimes and settled on going to the 6 pm Thursday evening showing at the AMC theater near me. Luckily, the theater was almost empty so it felt pretty safe.
The Eyes of Tammy Faye. “I grew up a closeted gay kid in the Bible Belt and here is this lady in the middle of a sex scandal.
“The Eyes of Tammy Faye” was released on 450 screens this weekend and grossed $675,000 for a per theater average of $1,500 and a spot in the Top 10 on the weekend charts. It’s a decent result given that older audiences, the cornerstone of specialty films, have been more reluctant to return to theaters than younger audiences.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorProduction designer Laura Fox, who transformed the Four Seasons Maui into an uneasy pineapple-bedecked paradise for HBO’s “The White Lotus” faced some similar challenges when creating the world of Tammy Faye Bakker for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”Neither director Michael Showalter, nor producer-actress Jessica Chastain, who plays the title character, wanted to make fun of the flamboyant televangelist, yet parts of her life were undeniably over-the-top, such as her
Tammy Faye Messner‘s daughter, Tammy Sue Bakker-Chapman, is opening up about how she feels about The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
“The Eyes Of Tammy Faye” has received rave reviews but Tammy Faye’s daughter still isn’t sure.
Clayton Davis The Oscars love an unrecognizable actor — prosthetics, weight gain (or loss) and other total transformations to better embody a character or real-life figure.
Jessica Chastain isn’t the only connection between “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” and the upcoming Paramount+ “George and Tammy” limited series. Abe Sylvia, a co-executive producer on “The Affair” and “Dead to Me,” is the screenwriter.
debuted at the Toronto International Film Festival Sunday and is in theaters Friday.The Bakkers had a veritable Christian empire, with their own Jesus-themed amusement park, Heritage USA, before Jim got embroiled in a sex assault scandal and lost it all in 1987. Two years later, he would go to jail for defrauding his followers of $158 million.
Jazz Tangcay Artisans EditorHow do you make a movie about colorful televangelist and gay icon Tammy Faye Bakker without veering into caricature? That was the challenge for “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” costume designer Mitchell Travers and star and producer Jessica Chastain, who were united in their vision for the look of the film. “We never wanted it to become a parody.
Jessica Chastain poses for a few pics ahead of her appearance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert in New York City on Wednesday afternoon (September 15).
Michael Appler In 1985, after thousands of gay men had died of AIDS in the U.S., Tammy Faye Bakker interviewed an openly gay pastor with HIV/AIDS named Steve Pieters on a national Christian television program.“How sad that we as Christians, who are supposed to love everyone, are so afraid of an AIDS patient that we will not put our arm around them and tell them that we care,” Tammy, through teary eyes and smudged makeup, said then on The PTL Club, the televangelist network she founded with
Hot off of the TIFF premiere of their new biopic “The Eyes Of Tammy Faye”, stars Jessica Chastain and Andrew Garfield dished about their physical transformations for their roles as former televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker.
The stars are stepping out for the premiere of The Eyes of Tammy Faye!
TORONTO — Another title for the movie “The Eyes of Tammy Faye” could be “Behind the Mascara.”Throughout the enlightening biopic about husband-and-wife televangelists Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, which premiered Sunday at the Toronto International Film Festival, Tammy Faye’s makeup gets thicker and thicker as the years go by.After a while the coverup, rouge and mile-long eyelashes are no longer beauty enhancements, but a protective shield against the reality of her crumbling life.The garish