Jessica Chastain Reveals 'George & Tammy' First Look, Details Lengths She Went To Get In Character

Jessica Chastain went to great lengths to get in character to play Tammy Wynette for Paramount’s George & Tammy.

The 45-year-old The Eyes of Tammy Faye actress will play the country icon in the biopic alongside Michael Shannon, who brings Tammy‘s husband, George Jones, to life.

She recently opened up about the prep work that went into playing Tammy in an interview, and Jessica made a surprising revelation.

Click inside to find out how Jessica Chastain prepared to play Tammy Wynette…

Jessica told Vanity Fair that she made a dramatic change to her diet in order to look more like Tammy, who suffered from health issues later in life.

“I don’t really like to look at scales, but I stopped eating,” she said. “I was drinking juices and I kept doing it until I looked sick.”

She also commented on the late icon’s relationship with her husband. “It was fascinating to me that someone like Tammy Wynette, who sang all these songs like ‘Stand by Your Man,’ also was married five times,” she explained. “I was excited about this woman who was married and divorced multiple times and struggling in Nashville and really made a name for herself on her own. She charted multiple times before she met George Jones.”

Jessica shared some of the first photos from the project on Twitter. She promised that even more was on the way soon.

George & Tammy isn’t the only project Jessica has in the works. She’ll also star alongside Eddie Redmayne in Netflix’s thriller The Good Nurse, which you can check out a trailer for here.