She made us sad in space (“Interstellar“, “The Martian“), she made us swoon in the South (“The Help”, “The Tree of Life”) and she made us cheer as she took on bad guys both real (“Zero Dark Thirty“) and supernatural (“It Chapter Two”).
Since making her big-screen debut as the title character in the 2008 drama “Jolene,” Academy Award winner Jessica Chastain has had quite a varied career these past two decades, playing a terrorist-hunting CIA analyst, a heavily mascaraed televangelist and dozens of complicated women in between.
But through her illustrious career, it’s her brazen performance in the 2017 Aaron Sorkin film “Molly’s Game” that always sticks out most to me. The gripping gambling drama — which sees Chastain play the real-life leader of a high-stakes, underground poker ring — is currently available to stream on Netflix, but the Oscar-nominated title will
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