When Jessica Chastain explains how she and her collaborators created the standout moments in her Tony-nominated Broadway performance in “A Doll’s House,” one wouldn’t expect…
But that’s exactly what the Oscar-winning actor did in the new episode of “Stagecraft,”‘s theater podcast. “Evil Dead,” she explained, figured into her early thinking as she and directorwere brainstorming how to stage her character Nora’s performance of a dance called the tarantella. It’s one of the most famous sequences in Henrik Ibsen’s classic play — and when Chastain performs it, she never rises from the chair in which she sits for almost the entirety of the play.
“I even said, ‘This is not how I’m going to play it, but do you know that movie ‘Evil Dead’ with the actor Bruce Campbell, and his arm becomes possessed and tries to kill him? What if the dance is Nora’s body trying to break free, and she’s trying to stop her body? Because she wants to stay in the cage. It’s safer, but it’s like her body won’t let her.”
On the new episode of “Stagecraft,” Chastain also offered a glimpse of what goes through her head during what has become the best-known element of her performance: the 20 minutes before the show that she spends onstage sitting in her chair, rotating slowly on a turntable. She’s in full view of the audience — and she looks right back at them.
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