There was a 911 on the set of “The 355.”
The thrills and spills of the new action-filled spy movie, “The 355,” took their toll on star Jessica Chastain.
Couch-chatting on “The Late Late Show with James Corden” recently, the host referenced that Chastain did a lot of her own stunts. “You must’ve got injured,” Corden asked, “Some of the stuff you’re doing in the film is sort of ridiculous.”
“Yeah, I had to go to the hospital,” said Chastain.
"I was doing a fight scene and it was on a marble floor,” she explained. “I misjudged. I had fallen and hit my head. I misjudged the distance. I heard a crack…"
As Yahoo! Entertainment reported, the crew knew something was wrong.
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“Everyone stopped and looked scared, and I was a bit stunned, like, I don't know what is happening," said Chastain. "My stunt double comes up to me, she is French and doesn't speak a lot of English, she just comes up to me and she goes, 'I'm sorry, but I have to put it back in.' And I'm sitting there, I'm like, 'Put what back in? Are my brains outside of my face? What is happening?' And I guess it was just a bruise she was pushing back in my head. I did a couple more takes because, you know, I don't give up easy, and then I went to the hospital."
Sitting next to Chastain on the Corden couch was “The 355” co-star Penélope Cruz who was nodding and groaning the whole time. It was she who finally talked Chastain into going to the hospital..
We convinced you to go to the hospital,” said Cruz, “because she didn't want to go. She wanted to keep going. I was like, 'You're going to the hospital!'"
“Doctor Cruz sent me to the hospital,” laughed Chastain.
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Taking physical risks seems to be a recent habit for Chastain. She recently noted that she probably sustained permanent skin damage while trying to recreate the wild makeup looks of infamous televangelist Tammy Faye Baker for the biopic, "The Eyes of Tammy Faye."
Aside from risking her own body during the making of "The 355," Chastain was also the film’s producer. She said she personally called each actress to ask them to be in the film, and helped raise money to finish it. The economics of it made for an interesting situation, if it also meant she had to do some of her own stunts.
"We made it for a fraction of the cost of what it would normally be,” Chastain explained,” and we are the owners of the film.”
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