Jessica Chastain on Miss Julie
Let's discuss Liv Ullmann’s Miss Julie, which is about to play the Toronto Film Festival. In the trailer, you make it look like fun to torment Colin Farrell. Was it?
No, it’s terrible to torment Colin Farrell, because he’s so lovely! [Giggles.] He and James McAvoy are both so incredibly nice that you can’t believe it. Every day on set is a joy because they’re making jokes all the time. Miss Julie is a very dark play — one of my favorites from Strindberg — and I’m a huge fan of Liv Ullmann, and I wanted to be around her. I knew, signing up for it, that I was signing up for a very tormented character, but it was completely worth it to me. It’s exactly the film Liv said she was going to make, very Bergman-esque, very theatrical.
This is the first movie Liv Ullmann has directed in almost 15 years. That's crazy!
I don’t know what it is about this one, but I do know it’s a character she’s never played before, which I found shocking because she would have been so good as Miss Julie. I kind of feel like Liv and I played this character together — even thought it was my body and my voice, it felt like there was this combined sisterhood.
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