Get to know Oscar-winning actress Jessica Chastain during a confetti-filled game of Pop Quiz! Watch as Jessica shares her favorite snacks, most meaningful gift, and reveals her secret talent!
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00:00It's shocking how much goes down your shirt. It's actually...
00:06Hi, I'm Jessica Chastain, and I'm playing Pop Quiz with Marie Claire.
00:11What is the best gift you've received? Someone made me a photo album, like scrapbook. It was really sweet because they had collected
00:20things, not just the pictures, but like tickets and
00:24and poems, and they glued some sand in from a certain beach. It was very, very sweet.
00:35Word your friends would use to describe you. Loyal, super loyal.
00:40Oh my god, why does it do that? Last song you got stuck in your head. I'm around kids a lot,
00:48so I tend to get a lot of kids songs stuck in my head. I don't know, probably Frozen. That's like a...
00:53That's the go-to in our house. Word that makes you cringe. Cringe, actually.
00:58I'm so sick of that word. I think it's really cringey.
01:04Last book I read. I read Joan Didion's
01:12Slouching Towards Bethlehem. I was in Austria this summer.
01:17Great short stories. The one in San Francisco. Oof! That was rough.
01:23How did you make your first dollar? Probably cleaning people's bathrooms. When I was a little kid,
01:31I had this theater group, I guess, that I started in my neighborhood. And we would go door to door
01:41and clean people's houses. And we were called the Dirtbusters. So we sang the Ghostbusters song, you know.
01:50Ooh, two for one! What should every woman try at least once in her life?
01:56Everything. You should try everything at least once in your life.
02:00Guilty pleasure watch on TV or streamer. I'm a housewife's person.
02:04I hate it so much!
02:13Do you have any secret talents?
02:16Um, I can... It's not really a secret, but I can do this.
02:23Like a witch, like bewitched.
02:26But now you all know, I'm a witch.
02:27Go-to late night snack. Wine. Delicious wine. And...
02:42What makes you feel most powerful and confident?
02:45Um, actually when I'm eating healthy food.
02:48I, uh, I definitely notice a change in my mood when I'm eating junk food that tastes so good.
02:58And when I'm, when I eat healthy for a few days, I feel like I'm a superhero and...
03:05I just gotta keep reminding myself that.
03:06What advice would you give your younger self?
03:11People are happier with you when you stop trying to please them.
03:15The number one thing on your bucket list.
03:23It would probably be...
03:26Well, I don't know because there are things I want to do, but it's not like the thing I want to do before I die.
03:32Um, but like I've always wanted to go to Nepal. That would be really special.
03:39Those are done. My last one.
03:40My most starstruck moment. It had to have been when I met Gary Oldman. It was 2011,
03:50on the red carpet at the Palm Spring. Oh, and Oprah. Hmm. Both I started crying. Both my starstruck
03:58moments. It was, uh, Gary Oldman approached me at the Palm Spring Film Festival, red carpet,
04:04after I was just talking about him in an interview saying that I saw him at lunch earlier today and
04:09I was too shy to go up. And then he approached me and said he saw me at lunch earlier in the day
04:13and he was too shy to come up to me, which was insane. Um, and then when I met Oprah,
04:20I tried to avoid her now because I really embarrassed myself. I like, I think Anne Hathaway introduced me
04:26to her of some event and I turned around and she's like, have you met Oprah? And I looked at her and I,
04:33I again started crying. And I think I said, as I was crying, you raised me, which is probably an
04:41uncomfortable thing for a stranger to tell you, but she was very gracious and, um, graceful.
04:47So yeah, that's it. That's my pop quiz. Thanks for watching.