Jessica Chastain

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PROVINANCE: Northern California. BAPTISM BY RECLUSIVE AUTEUR: Not long graduating from Juilliard, Chastain auditioned for the enigmatic Terrence Malick's longgestqting Tree of Life "Terry would write down lines on a piece of paper and hand them to me, and I Would say them," she says. "And then someone who worked for him would follow me around with a camera." DOES THIS MEAN SHE HAS TO GET NAKED, THE WAY HELEN MIRREN ALWAYS DOES? chostain will star as a Mossad a~nt pursuing a suspected Nazi war criminal in East Berlin in The Debt, out next year. In the film, which cutIIIIs between 1965 and 1997, Chastain plays a younger version of Helen Mirren's character. "I'm the luckiest girl, because I did this love triangle with [co-stars] Sam Worthington and Morton Csokas."