Jessica Chastain Plays Pop Quiz With Marie Claire
Get to know Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain during a confetti-filled game of Pop Quiz! Watch as Jessica shares her favorite snacks, most meaningful gift, and reveals her secret talent!
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00:00 (banging)
00:01 It's shocking how much goes down your shirt.
00:03 It's actually...
00:05 - Hi, I'm Jessica Chastain,
00:08 and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:11 What is the best gift you've received?
00:14 Someone made me a photo album, like scrapbook.
00:17 It was really sweet 'cause they had collected things,
00:21 not just the pictures, but like tickets and poems,
00:26 and they glued some sand in from a certain beach.
00:30 It was very, very sweet.
00:32 (banging)
00:32 I like this.
00:33 Word your friends would use to describe you.
00:37 Loyal, super loyal.
00:39 (banging)
00:40 Oh my God, why does it do that?
00:43 Last song you got stuck in your head.
00:46 I'm around kids a lot,
00:48 so I tend to get a lot of kids songs stuck in my head.
00:50 I don't know, probably "Frozen."
00:52 That's like a...
00:53 - That's the go-to in our house.
00:55 (banging)
00:56 - Word that makes you cringe.
00:57 Cringe, actually.
00:59 I'm so sick of that word.
01:00 I think it's really cringey.
01:02 (banging)
01:04 Last book I read.
01:07 I read Joan Didion's "Slobbering Towards Bethlehem."
01:12 I was in Austria this summer.
01:17 Great short stories.
01:18 The one in San Francisco, oof, that was rough.
01:22 (banging)
01:23 How did you make your first dollar?
01:25 Probably cleaning people's bathrooms.
01:30 When I was a little kid,
01:31 I had this theater group, I guess,
01:36 that I started in my neighborhood,
01:40 and we would go door to door and clean people's houses,
01:43 and we were called the Dirtbusters.
01:45 So we sang the Ghostbusters song, you know?
01:48 (banging)
01:50 - Ooh, two for one.
01:52 What should every woman try at least once in her life?
01:57 Everything.
01:58 - You should try everything at least once in your life.
02:00 - Guilty pleasure watch on TV or streamer.
02:04 I'm a housewives person.
02:05 (record scratching)
02:09 I hate it so much.
02:11 (banging)
02:13 Do you have any secret talents?
02:15 I can, it's not really a secret, but I can do this.
02:22 (upbeat music)
02:24 Like a witch, like Bewitched.
02:25 Now you all know, I'm a witch.
02:28 (banging)
02:30 Go-to late night snack?
02:34 Wine, delicious wine.
02:36 And...
02:38 (banging)
02:42 What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
02:46 Actually, when I'm eating healthy food.
02:49 I definitely notice a change in my mood
02:53 when I'm eating junk food that tastes so good.
02:58 And when I eat healthy for a few days,
03:01 I feel like I'm a superhero and...
03:03 (sighs)
03:05 I just gotta keep reminding myself that.
03:07 (banging)
03:08 What advice would you give your younger self?
03:11 People are happier with you
03:13 when you stop trying to please them.
03:17 (paper rustling)
03:20 The number one thing on your bucket list.
03:23 It would probably be, well, I don't know,
03:27 because there are things I wanna do,
03:29 but it's not like the thing I wanna do before I die.
03:32 But I've always wanted to go to Nepal.
03:36 That would be really special.
03:38 Those are done, my last one.
03:41 (banging)
03:43 My most star-struck moment?
03:46 It had to have been when I met Gary Oldman.
03:48 It was 2011 on the red carpet at the Palm Spring.
03:53 Oh, and Oprah.
03:54 Hmm.
03:55 Both, I started crying.
03:57 Both my star-struck moments, it was Gary Oldman
04:01 approached me at the Palm Spring Film Festival red carpet
04:05 after I was just talking about him in an interview,
04:07 saying that I saw him at lunch earlier today
04:09 and I was too shy to go up.
04:11 And then he approached me and said
04:12 he saw me at lunch earlier in the day
04:13 and he was too shy to come up to me,
04:15 which was insane.
04:17 And then when I met Oprah,
04:20 I try to avoid her now 'cause I really embarrass myself.
04:23 I think Anne Hathaway introduced me to her at some event.
04:28 And I turned around and she was like,
04:30 "Have you met Oprah?"
04:32 And I looked at her and I again started crying
04:34 and I think I said, as I was crying,
04:37 "You raised me."
04:39 (laughs)
04:40 Which is probably an uncomfortable thing
04:42 for a stranger to tell you,
04:43 but she was very gracious and graceful.
04:47 So yeah, that's it.
04:49 That's my pop quiz.
04:50 Thanks for watching.
04:51 (upbeat music)
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