By Steve Gorman
LOS ANGELES, March 27 (Reuters) – Jessica Chastain received the Academy Award on Sunday for finest lead actress for her mascara-laden title position because the on-air preaching companion and spouse of Christian televangelist Jim Bakker in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” chronicling the couple’s rise and fall.
The Oscar triumph for Chastain, 45, nearly unrecognizable in heavy make-up as Tammy Faye Bakker, adopted a Display Actors Guild Award for her efficiency and capped the third Academy Award nomination of her profession.
She was beforehand nominated for an Oscar for 2012 portrayal of a CIA analyst on the hunt of Osama Bin Laden in “Zero Darkish Thirty” and her 2011 supporting position as a Southern socialite within the Nineteen Sixties racial drama “The Assist.”
Chastain’s newest movie charted the real-life story of evangelical energy couple Jim and Tammy Faye Bakker, who constructed their PTL Membership tv ministry right into a worldwide Christian broadcast community through the Nineteen Seventies and ’80s.
However their profitable empire crumbled in a collection of extremely publicized intercourse and monetary scandals in 1987, ending with Jim Bakker’s conviction and imprisonment on a number of fraud costs and the couple’s divorce.
Tammy Faye later married and took the final title of developer Roe Messner as she rebuilt her repute by means of a documentary and actuality present earlier than her most cancers demise in 2007.
Though the movie drew blended evaluations, critics credited Chastain with rendering a nuanced, sympathetic portrayal of a determine much-lampooned in her day for her outlandish make-up and clothes types and an emotional tv persona bordering on histrionic.
Chastain has stated she spent a number of hours a day on set within the make-up chair having facial prosthetics utilized and recreating the famously heavy eyelashes that streamed mascara when Bakker cried on digicam.
Assuming Bakker’s rapid-fire speech and girlish, Midwestern-accented voice, Chastain additionally made her big-screen singing debut within the movie, performing quite a few Bakker’s gospel tunes.
Co-starring actor Andrew Garfield as Jim Bakker, the movie focuses on Tammy Faye’s standpoint, highlighting her defiance of conservative evangelical leaders by preaching acceptance of LGBT people and other people with HIV on the top of the AIDS epidemic.
Born in Sacramento, California, Chastain graduated from the Juilliard Faculty and labored on tv and stay theater earlier than making her movie debut in 2008 as a sexually abused teenager in “Jolene,” impressed by the Dolly Parton track of the identical title.
She went on to co-star in such movies as Terrence Malick’s 2011 ethereal drama “The Tree of Life” reverse Brad Pitt and the sci-fi hits “Interstellar” with Matthew McConaughey and “The Martian” with Matt Damon in 2014 and 2015.
She is married to vogue govt Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, with whom she has two kids.
(Reporting by Steve Gorman; Modifying by Sandra Maler)
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