Harvey Weinstein explains ‘Wettest County’ release date move

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Jessica Chastain talked to the Playlist about Wettest County and working with Tom, whose character, Forrest, is a shy man “with no idea how to even talk to a woman.” @_@

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While we’re still waiting for a release date on that project, John Hillcoat’s period gangster tale “Wettest County” will land in the spring and finds Chastain co-starring with Shia LaBoeuf, Tom Hardy, Mia Wasikowska, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce and Jason Clarke. It’s one of our most anticipated films of the year, and it sounds like Chastain’s looking forward to seeing it just as much as we are.

“Oh, my, I think it is going to be such a great film,” Chastain said. “I haven’t seen it yet, but I had, like, the front row seat for the performances… Because, you know, I’m acting opposite Guy Pearce and Tom Hardy and Shia…And the work that Shia does in this film is not like anything I’ve ever seen him do.”

And it sounds like it’ll be a bit of a break from the wholesome portraits of motherhood she’s played in “The Tree of Life,” “Coriolanus” and “Take Shelter.” “I play Maggie,” Chastain told us, “she’s this gun moll from Chicago and she goes on the run — no one really knows why, she’s this mysterious woman — she ends up in Franklin County, this storefront with these three brothers and she asks for a job. So then you have the element of these men who never had a woman around, and she’s, um, used to being around a lot of men, so it’s a very fun dynamic. Most of my scenes are with Tom [Hardy]. There’s a love story. It’s fun because he plays a man who has no idea how to even talk to a woman, and so their roles are kind of reversed, she has this masculine energy, and he, well he doesn’t have feminine energy, but he has this shyness, it’s really a fun dynamic.”

The film’s nearly done, and it sounds like she’ll be seeing the thing soon: “Nick Cave wrote the script and the music is INSANE, and I’m going to see it when I get back to LA, so I’m excited to see what they did in the editing room.”

charlidos:

More praise for Tom Hardy from Jessica Chastain! I can’t wait to see this film.

In director John Hillcoat’s “Wettest County,” a Depression-era drama about a bootlegging gang that’s one of the eagerly anticipated films next year, Jessica pits talents with Tom Hardy, Shia LaBeouf, Gary Oldman, Guy Pearce and Mia Wasikowska. “I’m a big fan of John,” she said, citing his films, “The Proposition” and “The Road.” “I’ve wanted to work with him for a long time. The script was great, written by Nick Cave. ‘Wettest County’ is a set where acting across the board is so good that even when people weren’t working, they would still show up to watch the scenes. Most of my scenes were with Tom Hardy. He’s fantastic in the film! It’s an absolute transformation. You learn something from every actor that you work with. Tom is good at making the unexpected choice.”

charlidos:

Another quote from the lovely Jessica Chastain about Tom. I love these two.

Five Things You Never Knew About Jessica Chastain

5. She’s a Scrabble champ.
“I’m so obsessed that during [the filming of] The Wettest Country in the World Tom Hardy and I would play two games at once on our iPads. Of course I always beat him, though he would deny that.”

charlidos:

A comment from Jessica Chastain on Tom’s fondness for mime-boxing. I would like to see this!

We made this movie two and a half years ago, so I haven’t really been using Krav Maga a lot. However, I did just do The Wettest County with Tom Hardy, and Tom loves to fight. We’d be on set in our ‘30s clothing, and Tom would take a stance and I would just punch him back. So, I did get to work on my Krav Maga. I don’t think that he expected me to be as ruthless as I was.