Jessica Chastain goes for her first Emmy win playing country music legend Tammy Wynette. Plus, which episodes actors submitted, a listen to the music and lyrics nominees, and more.
, here playing George Jones, but at one point the story was on track for the big screen. "It was gonna be a movie. We had a bunch of different directors, different casts," Chastain explains. "Different studios were interested, trying to get budgets to make sense — it would be a very expensive two-hour movie because there's so much music."
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: If this project is something that had moved ahead 10 years ago, do you feel like you would've actually been comfortable enough to have done it?Honestly, if it had happened 10 years ago, we would've lip-synced. I mean, that's the truth. I don't know that we would've lip-synced to the actual George and Tammy, but I mean, I've learned so much during this process.
Pain. Emotional and physical. And this idea of, where does her voice come from? I thought about when she left her first husband, her mom took her kids away. She was pregnant, she was institutionalized, and they gave her electric shock therapy while she was pregnant. And this — it kinda makes me wanna cry even think about it — what that does in your body.
Well, definitely singing "Stand By Your Man" in Vegas. From the moment I signed on in 2011, I already was like,all right, throw the darts at me
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