“Everyone always makes fun of me because when I win something, I never think it’s going to happen.”
When Geist asked what went through her mind after winning the award, Chastain said her reflections on the"scope of her life" and what led her to that point started before, when she received the nomination.
"In that moment, when I got on stage, I just felt like, I didn’t want it to be about me," she told Geist."I don’t want to get emotional talking about it, but the people that have put so much of their time into helping me."As a graduate of New York's prestigious Juilliard school, Chastain has made a name for herself in Hollywood. She's known for acting in"The Help" and"Zero Dark Thirty," both of which resulted in Oscars nominations.
“I would, like, skip school to read Shakespeare in my car. I mean, that’s not something that someone should be doing in high school,” she said, with a laugh.
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