Jessica Chastain - Antonina Zabinski [The Zookeeper's Wife] {#2}: Jessica + animals > everything else - Page 7

Nothing Else Matters · 01-17-2017, 12:37 AM

Saw the trailer for this and I can't wait to watch. Jessica will be amazing as always.

ina_am · 01-17-2017, 03:12 AM

I think so, this movie is going to be the cutest

Flipnote87 · 01-17-2017, 11:09 AM

The screening is in a few hours! Hopefully the reactions will be positive for this one! 🙏🏻

ina_am · 01-17-2017, 11:10 AM

Wow, really? Fingers crossed

!!!

Nothing Else Matters · 01-17-2017, 10:09 PM

How was the screening?

ina_am · 01-18-2017, 10:48 AM

I want to know that too

Great art

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Nothing Else Matters · 01-21-2017, 09:05 PM

Lovely art!

Started reading the book today.

ina_am · 01-22-2017, 03:28 AM

Fab, let us know how is it

Tisha89 · 02-22-2017, 01:53 AM

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After playing characters who took on the gun lobby, Southern racism, al-Qaeda, and assorted husbands running the gamut from clueless to abusive, Jessica Chastain can *hardly be blamed for wanting a vacation from human nature. She told her agent to look for a film about animals. Along came The Zookeeper’s Wife, out this month, based on the best-selling book by Diane Ackerman. The story draws on the unpublished diaries of Antonina Zabinski, who, with her husband, Jan, ran a zoo in Warsaw, Poland, and smuggled some 300 Jews to safety during the Nazi occupation. Chastain’s is the title role, and the film revolves around her as she cares for a dwindling menagerie and a growing flock of people. The Jews locked in the ghetto are photographed by those on the outside through the bars of the gate. The film, she says, is about “life in a cage.” So much for that vacation.

Chastain has always loved animals. “You look into their eyes and you can see what’s in their heart,” she says,

Spoiler:

“Animals helped her to heal,” Chastain says. “I think Antonina could connect better to animals than she could to people. And I believe animals can teach you how to handle people. I never go into their space unless they are ready to receive me.”

It was Chastain who suggested that Johan Heldenbergh, the Belgian actor, writer, and director, play Jan. A lover of foreign films, she had been impressed by his performance in The Broken Circle Breakdown, a Belgian movie he cowrote, which was nominated for an Academy Award in 2014. Niki Caro, Zookeeper’s director, agreed that Heldenbergh would be perfect for the role. But then the studio executives balked, on the grounds that he’d never acted in English. “So I went on YouTube,” Chastain says. “And I’m an obsessive person.” She typed in his name and kept searching until she came across a video of a toast he had given in a bar in Los Angeles. “And I’m like, ‘He can speak English. Here you go.’ ”

Virile and complex, Heldenbergh holds his own against Chastain, who, with her columnar neck and fine bones, is at her most radiant. The heat between them anchors the film in their life as a couple. They are heroic, though not by the usual Hollywood standards, which, Chastain notes, have more to do with aggression; their courage, she says, takes the form of compassion.

Jessica Chastain Is the Heroine Women Deserve | W Magazine

ina_am · 02-22-2017, 02:35 AM

Cannot wait for this one

Tisha89 · 02-22-2017, 03:35 AM

She's on a book cover now.

Jews forced to hide in zoo cages to escape Nazis

ina_am · 02-22-2017, 05:40 AM

I want to buy that book

Musidora · 02-27-2017, 11:37 AM

I usually hate book covers that feature the movie poster (unless it's a concept poster/something actually interesting) but I think I might have to buy that one for Jess

And I just love love love that story about Johan Heldenbergh, our girl really goes for what she wants for. It's ridiculous that they didn't want to consider him because he "never acted in English" so I'm glad Jess stood by her choice with FACTS

Tisha89 · 02-27-2017, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by Chastainღ (View Post)

I usually hate book covers that feature the movie poster (unless it's a concept poster/something actually interesting) but I think I might have to buy that one for Jess

And that cub she's holding.

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Originally Posted by Chastainღ (View Post)

And I just love love love that story about Johan Heldenbergh, our girl really goes for what she wants for. It's ridiculous that they didn't want to consider him because he "never acted in English" so I'm glad Jess stood by her choice with FACTS

Absolutely! She should get casting credit too (TDoER:Him&Her, AMVY, TZW).

Musidora · 02-28-2017, 01:27 PM

Love the little IG previews <333

I especially love her casting credit in AMVY, she needs to cast Oscar in another movie with her ASAP


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