“It’s a Kardashian story,” Jessica Chastain said at Deadline’s The Contenders accident Saturday in Los Angeles. Chastain fabricated the hasty allegory during a console altercation for STX’s Molly’s Game, in which she plays Molly Bloom, a real-life Olympic-class skier-turned-high-stakes poker bold host who became an FBI and Russian mob target.
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When Chastain aboriginal Googled Bloom, she advised her based on her appearance. “I was anticipation her for her clothes, for her makeup,” she said. “But in abounding cases, women accept to present themselves in that way, to acquisition success in an industry area men are authoritative the rules.”
Chastain said she placed photographs of the Kardashians in her bivouac to added asperse herself in “this abstraction that to acquisition success, to accept it be accustomed to you, you accept to present this angel of who you are.” But in affair and accepting to apperceive Bloom, Chastain said, “I abstruse she was the adverse of that stereotype.”
Aaron Sorkin acclimatized the cine from Bloom’s book and makes his authoritative admission with the film. He additionally accepted to anticipation Bloom afore accepting to apperceive her. “I went to the affair with Molly after actual aerial expectations,” he said. But he anon accomplished he had been mistaken. “This was a appreciably absorbing woman, and there was a huge aberration amid the adventure she was cogent in the book and the absolute story.”
As Chastain put it, the adventure expertly addresses a actual accepted conversation: the asperity and patriarchy in our society. “What I adulation so abundant about this adventure is the accord with the ancestor (played by Kevin Costner),” she said, “because it absolutely does set up this arrangement of patriarchy in Molly’s life, in the family, in industry and in the government. In all situations, she is aggravating to chase the rules laid out by men who change their apperception depending on what their whims are. I anticipate alone an absurd biographer is able to blow that beating while we’re all still dark to it.”
Idris Elba added that arena Bloom’s lawyer Charlie Jaffey was both a claiming and a reward. “I was captivated to bits, aboriginal of all because it’s Aaron,” he said. “The added benefit was to watch Aaron and to allotment that moment with him.” He additionally declared alive with Chastain as “a dream appear true,” admitting an acute schedule. “We had 12 canicule to shoot what Aaron declared as ‘the back of the film’ — no pressure,” Elba joked. “It was amphitheater on speed-dial; it was fantastic.”
For Sorkin, administering accepted agreeable abundant that while he won’t be accomplishing it alone activity forward, he promises to revisit the experience. “I adulation alive with abundant directors, and I’m not done absent to do that,” he said. “I had such a absurd acquaintance on this. Every day was wonderful, and I’m actual appreciative of how the cine came out, so I anticipate I will do it again.”
