“I wasn’t, like, the best student.
“I was kind of nerdy.
One time they permed my hair and I looked like Annie, and then we cut it off.
Jessica Chastain.Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic
I had really short hair, red hair.
I look back and I’m like, ‘Oh, what a sweet, clueless person.'”
The other kids would be like, ‘Oh my God, look at her.’
I know, it’s terrible.
I just wanted people to notice me for being a weirdo, that I was existing, something.”
“You know they ended up living together and raising the baby together.
They were best friends,” Chastain continued.
“How amazing would that film be?
I loved her, and I got to be a bit silly.”
Listen to Chastain discuss her childhood penchant for banana peels around the 40-minute mark inMarc Maron’s podcast above.
