The formidable actors tell Vogue about their new Showtime series about music legends George Jones and Tammy Wynette.
Yet the dramatic consequences such celebrity had on their private lives were as heartbreakingly epic as the lyrics to their songs.as Jones and Wynette in an unblinking portrait of the duo’s professional zeniths and personal depths as they struggled with poverty, religion, fame, alcohol and drugs, and numerous failed marriages.
It would be difficult to imagine two better actors than Chastain and Shannon – who previously starred together in Jeff Nichols’s 2011 dramato portray hardscrabble Nashville royalty. Despite their Hollywood-lead status, both possess the workman-like ethic of character actors, keeping up the startling pace of three to five films a year on average for the past decade. Shannon’s work has often spotlighted Middle American roughnecks or rakish outsiders like mob hitman.
For her part, Chastain, who also serves as an executive producer on the series, has built one of Hollywood’s most impressive resumes playing dramatic characters with markedly “un-Hollywood” pedigrees or regional backstories, from the, for which she won the Oscar.
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