Jessica Chastain's latest commitment to her craft landed her in the
hospital!
During an appearance on "The Late Late Show with James
Corden" the actress revealed she had performed a series of stunts on her
latest film "The 355" where she sustained a head injury that resulted in her
being rushed to the hospital.
Co-star Penelope Cruz joined the 44-year-old on the late night talk show
and revealed that she had been "really worried" when one of Chastain's
stunts took a wrong turn.
"You must have gotten injured. Some of
the stuff you're doing in the film is sort of ridiculous," Corden asked
Chastain who admitted that she "actually had to go to the hospital."
"I was doing a fight scene and it was on a marble floor. I
misjudged. I had fallen and hit my head. I misjudged the distance," the
actress explained. "I heard a crack. That might be why I am the way I am
today."
Chastain then recalled how her stunt double, who was
watching her perform in the distance, had come to her side to push her head
back into place after the hard impact which had caused a little panic.
Although she can laugh about the incident now, at the time
Chastain was "a bit stunned" as the crew on the set "stopped and looked
scared."
"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."
Chastain recalled how she persevered for the perfect shot before seeking
medical attention, “I did a couple more takes because, you know, I don't
give up easy, and then I went to the hospital."
Jessica serves as
a producer for the film which also stars Diane Kruger, Lupita Nyong'o and
Fan Bingbing. The film follows a group of women who make up a group of super
spies who band together to stop a world terrorist organization.
Although the movie was made with a lower budget, Chastain
revealed that the film had a lower cost in exchange for the ownership of her
work.
She explained, "We made it for a fraction of the cost of
what it would normally be and we are the owners of the film."
