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How Al Pacino Gave Jessica Chastain Her First Big-Screen Break

The past decade has been good to Jessica Chastain. The film which co-stars Al Pacino (who also wrote and directed) is an adaptation of a stage production, for which the star cast the then unknown actress, after a friend of his caught her performance in a low-profile off-Broadway play. “I was actually in Australia and I got a call from my agent saying, ‘We have a call for you to audition for the lead in Salomé opposite Al Pacino.’ I thought, ‘How did this happen?’ because I wasn’t getting great