Two New Eleanor Rigby Posters

@phantom: Alaways nice to hear from you. Your Jessica Chastain appreciation was fabulous. I love her; she reminds me of one of my favourite actresses, another one who can do it all: Juliette Binoche.

Thanks, JPNS Viewer ! Yep, I have nothing to gain when I praise the actors and actresses whose work and career choices I admire and I have a soft spot for Chastain because I consider her career choices particularly a breath of fresh air.

Phantom, to answer your original question: yes.

Great rant for a great actress whose career trajectory has been without reproach. She’s one of the very few whose films I’ll see simply based on her past choices.

I absolutely loved both posters! I’m really looking forward to see Her, Him and Them. Jessica Chastain has become one of my favorite actress to watch and I’ve always been a huge fan of James McAvoy and what can I say about the supporting cast… Spectacular! Although I’m wondering for which role Jessica will campaign for this or Miss Julie. I know that Harvey is behind of the Eleanor Rigby’s films and knowing him, obiously he’ll push for Eleanor Rigby or they’ll choose which of Jessica’s performance is best. Can’t wait to see how the campaign will be.

Is it just me or is Jessica Chastain raising the bar – which was high up to begin with – a little bit higher every year ?

2011 – Five acclaimed supporting performances (The Tree of Life, Take Shelter, The Help, Coriolanus, The Debt) resulting her first supporting Oscar nomination

2012 – A highly acclaimed lead role (Zero Dark Thirty) resulting her first lead Oscar nomination, also a supporting turn in a well-received period piece (Lawless) and in case we were still wondering if she really CAN do it all, voice work in a smash animated hit (Madagascar 3).

2013 – Early last year she quietly transitioned from critical darling to a bona fide star : she headlined two No1 hits in January (Zero Dark Thirty (nationwide expansion), Mama) AND a sold out Broadway show that wasn’t even well-received so you know people wanted to see HER no matter how good or bad the revival actually was…and by looking at all the star-driven Broadway shows that flopped after lukewarm reviews, you know that THAT is star power.

2014 – Now that she had established she can do it all (literally from Broadway to Madagascar), she has a supporting role in one of the most anticipated films of the year (Interstellar), plays what seems like an uberbaity ladymacbethesque role in J.C. Chandor’s latest (A Most Violent Year) and just in case anyone dared to doubt her arthouse roots and the fact that she CAN carry a film, she is not only headlining an acclaimed unique gem (The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby) that can count on a strong Weinstein-push, but also plays the title role in a Strindberg adaptation, penned and directed by living legend Liv Ullmann (Miss Julie).

2015 – And though the jury is still out whether she can top her 2014 – well, it is still out whether 2014 will be as spectacular for her as it looks like right now – I think it is a safe assumption that she will reach new heights in 2015 when on top of having a supporting role in Guillermo Del Toro’s Crimson Peak, she will probably have three uberbaity lead roles, as well : Antonina Zabinski, who helped save hundreds of people and animals during the Nazi invasion (The Zookeeper’s Wife, produced by the fearless Megan Ellison); Marilyn Monroe (Blonde, directed by Andrew Dominik, produced by Brad Pitt) and the young Roseanne McNulty, a mental patient, an interesting part she will share with the great Vanessa Redgrave (The Secret Scripture)

What I admire the most about her career choices that it seems obvious she isn’t after fame and money, if she were, she would make sure films like Iron Man 3, Oblivion, Mission Impossible 5 etc. fit in her schedule – these are roles that were all hers, had she really wanted them – but instead she politely cites scheduling conflicts and goes off to shoot an Eleanor Rigby, a role written specifically for her by Ned Benson OR flies to Jordan to make Zero Dark Thirty OR moves to Ireland for a few months to work with Liv Ullmann OR to Canada to reunite with Guillermo Del Toro…and the beautiful irony that Box Office success STILL finds her though thanks to her rare integrity she exclusively sticks with intelligent, classy projects : she headlined two big No1 hits (Zero Dark Thirty, Mama) and even two not so high-profile period pieces of hers opened No2 in the US (The Debt, Lawless), not to mention the smash hit that was The Help, sure she wasn’t the lead, but as we soon learned, she WAS one of the main reasons the film turned out to be so popular. She may have been an overnight success, but thank God, she is most certainly here to stay and quickly turned into the kind of actress, we have so few of nowadays : the kind we (well, at least me) are happy to watch in anything.

OK, Jessica Chastain appreciation rant officially OVER 🙂

In regards to HIM and HER, does anyone know if Ned Benson intended us to see them in any order or does it make no difference? I suppose the Blu-ray will somehow clarify this.

yep… love seeing Sasha’s pull-quote.

Wow! Pretty cool that your quote made both posters Sasha!! Congratulations! 🙂

Him is from his POV; Her is from her POV; and Them combines both. So Him and Her must contain different material in addition to the same material but presented as he remembered it and as she remembered it, respectively. I’ll go to see all three, but I wish TWC would release them: Him, Her, Them or Her, Him, Them rather than Them first.

Yeah, to see films with fully realized, complex female characters you either have to go back to the 1930s-70s, or watch films with subtitles. Very excited about this project.