By AFP
UNITED STATES: Jessica Chastain on Sunday took house the Oscar for greatest actress, a reward for her exceptional bodily transformation right into a larger-than-life US televangelist in “The Eyes of Tammy Faye.”
Chastain, 45, received over Academy voters with a efficiency that noticed her don complicated prosthetics, wigs and layers of Tammy Faye Bakker’s trademark heavy make-up day by day on set in an effort to embody the late singer-turned-minister and LGBTQ activist.
She bested Olivia Colman (“The Lost Daughter”), Penelope Cruz (“Parallel Mothers”), Nicole Kidman (“Being the Ricardos”) and Kristen Stewart (“Spencer”) to win the prize.