Jessica Chastain Talks Helping Octavia Spencer Receive Equal Pay | TODAY
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- Two-time Oscar nominee Jessica Chastain spoke with TODAY’s Hoda Kotb about how she spoke up on behalf of fellow actress Octavia Spencer to help her get five times her pay for an upcoming film they’re in together. “I assumed a woman like Octavia Spencer would be compensated fairly for the work she’s done, for the awards she’s received,” said Chastain, whose latest movie, “Woman Walks Ahead,” hits theaters this week.
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Jessica Chastain Talks Helping Octavia Spencer Receive Equal Pay | TODAY
I fell in love with her when I saw her cry tears of happiness for her fellow co-stars from The Help when they won their awards. She's super sweet and genuine
Can you send me the link?!
She’s sweet just like her sweet role as Celia Foote in the Help. I’m definitely gonna watch more of her movies now. She seems so kind.
@@rickiiicee501 that's a lot of award ceremonies though, maybr the top commentator is referring to the oscars?
I watch any movie with Jessica Chastain in it. Just watching her act feels like time well spent. And she’s such a wonderful human being too. God bless her!
It seems like assuming that she's (such) a wonderful human being is an easy way to kick poor people while they're down, because there are probably a lot of poor people that you would think are bad people (for example, you might think that the poor people with the same politics as you are fine, but also think that the poor people with different politics as you are bad people), in which case, those poor people would not only have to suffer through being poor, but also, simultaneously, socially, by people like you who would put them down way more than you would put Jessica Chastain down, even though she enjoys so much luxury over those poor people and, due to her wealth, arguably, metaphorically stole their hard-earned wages using capitalism as the vehicle for it.
Sure, rich people can speak against capitalism as penance for being rich, but does that make them wonderful human beings? Let's take an average man with an average job. If he supports socialism, for example, you could say he is making up for coming from a privileged gender, but does that make him a wonderful human being, or does that just make him an average human being that's doing what he's supposed to do anyway? Are people really wonderful for just doing what they're supposed to do while they continue to enjoy large amounts of privilege? Is an average man with an average job wonderful for supporting socialism, or is he just doing what a privileged person is supposed to do, and is Jessica Chastain wonderful for the politics that she supports, or is she just doing what a privileged person is supposed to do anyway? Doing what you are supposed to do might keep you from being a bad person, but it doesn't seem to make you a wonderful one, especially when you are still someone who, on a daily basis, enjoys massive amounts of privilege that the system gives you over other people who are just as deserving of it but had bad luck and/or were treated unfairly.
Jessica and Octavia have such an amazing friendship. Ultimate friendship goals!
Look up the movie 355. Chastain hyped it up as this all female tour-de-force. It had a budget of $75M, but only made $18M at the box office. At the end of the day, women don’t want to see women entertain them. That goes for comedy, movies, or sports. The only thing they’ll support are singers.
what i like even more than her acting and her choice of roles is that she really puts her money where her mouth is
That woman is one of the best actresses of the day! She needs her first Oscar for playing Tammy Faye Bakker!
...and she got it !
A White person openly admitting that bigotry is alive & well. Wait for the backlash, Jessica.
Don’t tar everyone with the same brush
Don't worry, D Jack....Jessica is an "Angel at work". I have a feeling she's lived her whole life this way. She carries that "warrior spirit" for justice. It is such a blessing to know that there are people like her. She's quite an inspiration.
She is already used to it. Remember Miss Sloane backlash.
It's a white obligation. She's doing her part.
@@HelgaCavoli Hollywood White Obligation.
As if I needed more reasons to love her
Jessica Chastain very talented and a great human being!
She is such a lovely lady! 💕🥀
Amazing. I love her!
nice job she did and this movie will rock......Jessica .......what smiley and lively woman and actress she is.....
She's wonderful
Great lady and fantastic actress.
I adore Jessica and Octavia AND HODA!
I adore her and if I were an actress I would love to work with her
Right on....love it!!
loved her.
The look she gives the camera at the beginning when said she plays "strong women" because she doesn’t like that turn of phrase at all, since she considers every women strong.
I love her, omg. Goddess
Wow! Super fan, love Jessica and her work both her acting and behind the scenes. All my admiration! and the husband! OMG so hansom! :)
Never would have suspected the strong friendship transpired off-screen too from The Help!
EDIT: Excited to see how the 355 turns out...we gotta wait like 3 to 4 years for it!
So, what do you think of the 355? I sure did enjoy it
God i love her! jessica is my fave actresses. she is so incredibly beautiful! her acting is wonderful and she is such an angel.
She's perfect!
I started crying too!!! She’s magical.
Jessica is❤
She seems like an amazing person
3:34 🥰
Good on you, Jessica
What an amazing woman ❤
She's breathtakingly beautiful, in and out. Can't wait for 355
i love this woman 😭
3:51
PROUD of Her👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Jessica Chastain is such a good actress. I love that she has her 1 year anniversary and I hope she gets pregnant with her husband soon.
So so pretty. I wish we were bff.
My God she is gorgeous.
That was a well conducted interview. Covers a wide range of topics. Timing and transitions are exquisite.
If you sell good enough, you win good enough… isn’t that the principle?
More Jess is even better than more cowbell.
Octavia needed a better agent..
I love Jessica Chastain, however wen she talked about women’s right to vote and she worked on a film with Native Americans and she doesn’t realize that we were the last people to have the right to vote.
Jessica is a lovely person, and radiates joy. So kind and fair of her to make sure Octavia got equal pay. It is very empowering to see women stick up for each other and join forces. Wonderful. A good actress too, luminous.
She is a fantastuc acriz, L O V E her.
I believe she's the Meryl Streep of her generation or, in other words....the best actress working today. I adore her!
“Strong” women?? If women aren’t strong than what are we? WEAK?! Nah correct that, sis.
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A redhead will be the revolutionary mark my words 💯
"Jolene"
❤️❤️❤️❤️
❤
She’s smoking hot
Can I have Octavia's number, Jessica?
And who is helping these women earn the same as their male counterparts?
Pretty sure all women are fighting for this. Still hasn’t happened, shows the injustice, right?
4:41 The movie flopped. Girl power is great until you start talking about dollar and cents.
She will be invited to every BBQ
a screen play artist.
Hard to like her the way she was in The Help
Steve Reed is a trumpanzee.
It's a good virtue signal, but would anybody have complained if she was paid more? She's a talented actress who's won multiple awards, received two academy award nominations while starring in multi award winning and multi academy award nominated movies. That, and many other factors determine how much power you have for negotiating pay, not race or gender.
Why is Hollywood so sjw now? Every movie has to have sjw propaganda in it. Most "white" people have no problem with women and minorities. But they make it feel so forced now. Like you have to have a strongwilled heroin in the movie, preferably in the lead. And we have to make sure we lace throughout the movie "people of color". If it makes sense to the story then thats all that should matter. But dont do it for the sake of diversity and feminism. Its like when you see obvious product placement in a movie. Its just annoying. Let me focus on the story and not on your sjw mission to not be "racist".
Spoken like a true racist.
Ugh. The gushing interviewer made me stop watching after about one minute
Liberals and their same old propaganda, gets tiresome. Woman were far more equal before Democrats came along and began to oppress us with Feminism and everything else they have put into place, under the the guise of helping us. Instead they have unbalanced society and created a mess that works for nobody but them. It's how the keep power. Except It's not working any more. Us people in the real world, who have to live with the mess, see right through the lies now. Toxic liberalism is going down. We can all, only be equal, if we have equal access to liberty and freedom. Not the tyranny of socialism.
Lordy, you just don't get it.
All I see is one rich woman giving money to another rich woman.
Skibi, that's unfortunate of your sight. But at least you're being honest about it. So I guess.. thanks?
+Skibi: That comments says more about you than anything else.
@@AngelusHale He's white they don't see what they don't want too
@@stevenjones4059 another racist pushing anti-white racism 🤮🤢
True story!
And their film flopped
No it didn't
The problem with Spencer is she demands and is an angry black racist women. When she shows up everybody goes into caution alert mode. She is awful to work with.
Steve Reed how do you know that?
Sasha C we are in the same business.
Receipts or they are speculations.
Steve Reed serving Octavia Spencer coffee at craft services is far away from “working in the same field” sorry buddy, you sound bitter and ignorant.
Sorry but I find that really hard to believe. Every interview I've seen Octavia in, she's been over the top lovely, kind and humble. Also, Jessica Chastain is a woman of high calibre and I doubt she would be such close friends with someone who was "an angry black racist woman" as you put it.
𝐒𝐡𝐞 𝐰𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐰𝐞𝐬𝐨𝐦𝐞 𝐦𝐲 𝐟𝐚𝐯𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐞