Jessica Chastain is amassing quite a portfolio of work at the moment. She’s filming the 19th Century female-led western, ‘Woman Walks Ahead’ with Sam Rockwell and director of ‘Generation Kill’, Susannah White. Also on her plate is the true story of a zoo that became a safe-haven during the Nazi occupation of Poland (‘The Zookeeper’s wife’) and ‘Molly’s Game’, Aaron Sorkin’s drama in which a former Olympian sets up a gambling ring. All that, and now add Miss Sloane to the pile.
In the evidence of this new trailer, she appears steely-eyed and driven, heading up an attack on American gun laws. Chastain plays a successful Washington DC lobbyist that starts a fight to pass a law calling for more rigorous background checks on firearm owner. She sacrifices her comfortable life and professional reputation to battle in one of the Western world’s most heated arenas.
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Directed by John Madden (the man most recently behind ‘The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel’), ‘Miss Sloane’ looks to be a fiery political thriller aiming to discuss America’s longest standing and most divisive debate. Chastain, having cemented her status as a take-no-nonsense fighter two years ago in war thriller ‘Zero Dark Thirty’, looks to offer an intriguing and tough performance as a soldier in the battlefield of political combat.
Watch the first Miss Sloane trailer above and let us know your thoughts @LWLies
