Jessica Chastain Best Actress At SAG Awards
Jessica Chastain took home the prize for best actress in a leading role at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Jessica Chastain received her praise!
On Sunday, the actress, who played Tammy Faye in The Eyes of Tammy Faye, took home the award for best performance by a female actor in a starring role at the 28th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards.
"Whoa. Wow. Okay, I'm surprised. Thank you, SAG-AFTRA; I'm completely shocked "Chastain, 44, remarked as she won her prize. "I'm the luckiest person in the world."
The actress stated that playing Tammy Faye Messner (previously Bakker), a televangelist who defied convention by supporting HIV patients during the height of the AIDS epidemic was "a dream of mine."
"She was a true trailblazer," Chastain added, stopping to add, "I'm anxious!"
Chastain went on, "She put her arms around those who had been pushed aside time and again, and she launched herself into decades of LGBTQ love. I spent 10 years working on the project, and I think we told her narrative in a way that she would be proud of."
In her address, she discussed how her fellow performers had influenced her work.
She said that she wanted to be an actor for her whole life, and ever since she was a kid it was the only thing she ever really thought about, and there were years of studying and auditioning and not getting jobs, she added. And she knows what that feels like and she knows the loneliness of what that feels like.
She continued that for those of you who are struggling and feeling unseen she just wants you to keep going because you are one job away, she promises. And the thing that kept her going was you, she added.
Chastain told PEOPLE in September that she wanted to bring new light on the real-life Tammy Faye, who weathered scandals and years of public ridicule with her husband and PTL co-founder Jim Bakker, represented by Andrew Garfield in the film.
She stated that she hoped the movie would help people "understand her worth despite her husband's heinous faults and criminality."
