LOS ANGELES: Jessica Chastain struggled initially to relate to Molly Bloom, the former ski champion turned ‘poker princess’ hostess to the rich and famous at Hollywood’s most exclusive high stakes card tables. It wasn’t until Chastain met Tinseltown’s goddess of gambling as part of her research into playing Bloom in upcoming biopic “Molly’s Game” that she began to understand the high-rolling impresario’s motivations. “I studied the classics – Shakespeare, Chekhov and Ibsen – and he has this way, he has a rhythm just like Shakespeare had,” said Chastain. “She goes, ‘My name is Molly Bloom – this is who I am –’ and it’s the first time in the movie she does that,” said Chastain, explaining Bloom’s change of heart. “I don’t see it as protecting others, I see it as, for the first time, protecting herself and her integrity.”ft/oh

Source: New Strait Times December 18, 2017 02:15 UTC