Halloween may be a few weeks in the past, but that didn’t stop Jessica Chastain from embracing some character work for her latest magazine cover.
The Oscar-winning actress, 49, posed for the latest cover of Flaunt Magazine, channeling none other than another iconic Jessica – Jessica Rabbit!
© Alamy Stock PhotoFor one of the photos as part of the spread, the star wore her auburn long locks in loose curls and old Hollywood waves, posing in a red satin gown that hugged her figure, paired with lavender opera gloves.
The look was a direct nod to the cartoon bombshell’s own exaggerated style, made famous in the 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, and brought to screen in 1988’s Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Jessica even captioned her post bearing the image with: “I’m not bad. I’m just photographed that way,” a tweak to the original Jessica Rabbit’s quote: “I’m not bad. I’m just drawn that way.”
Fans were quickly obsessed with the look, leaving comments on the post like: “Live Action Jessica Rabbit bio pic when?!?!” and: “YOU ARE THE ORIGINAL JESSICA RABBIT,” plus: “Just casually breaking the internet,” plus a “You are everything” from Nicole Scherzinger.
In her interview with the publication, the Zero Dark Thirty star dove deeper into the art of transformation and how she’s able to detach herself from her characters on-screen, ranging from the sympathetic (The Help) to the deranged (Other Mommy).
“It’s impossible to describe it when it’s happening,” she explained of that detachment. “It’s like a flow state and you can’t really be logical about it because there’s something about it that feels almost spiritual. You just open yourself up.”
Asked whether she’d found a “defining role” for herself, though, Jessica noted that each time she found joy in each opportunity she was given to get in front of the camera and transform, especially for instances that forced her to embrace parts of herself she’d never overtly dealt with.
© Getty Images“I feel like there are so many. That’s a tough thing,” she remarked of her most notable works. “Because of course, Salomé [from Wilde Salomé] was so important for me. I really just threw myself into it with so much. And Tree of Life, of course.”
“Tammy Faye [from The Eyes of Tammy Faye],” she continued, specifically shouting out the role that won her an Oscar for Best Actress after a decade of nominations. “That’s another one where the role was so different from who I am. Being her was a different way of speaking and a different way of laughing, how she carried her body.”
© Getty Images“Even singing in her way was so difficult for me to do,” she continued. “Anything that feels really scary, has, in some sense, even if it doesn’t turn out great, become some kind of defining moment in my career, because it pushed me beyond the boundaries or whatever I thought I was capable of or comfortable with. I like it when something forces me to get out of my comfort zone.”