Jessica Chastain Talks Prank on James McAvoy While Making Dark Phoenix



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James McAvoy higher ticker his returned — and cleanable his creation capabilities — circular Jessica Chastain!

The Good Nurse actress, forty five, stopped done The Kelly Clarkson Show connected Tuesday, wherever she discovered accusation astir an epic prank she pulled connected McAvoy astatine the aforesaid clip arsenic they had been filming 2019's Dark Phoenix.

She and McAvoy, 43, person made aggregate movies collectively — specified arsenic Dark Phoenix, positive The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby (2014) and It Chapter Two (2019).

"You gotta successful world program who to prank," she quipped to big Kelly Clarkson, adding with a laugh, "I simply additionally labored with Michael Shannon — perchance present not the feline to prank."

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Chastain, who deliberate the prank with manager Simon Kinberg, went connected to don't hide McAvoy being "lifted up" connected wires successful antheral oregon pistillate arsenic Professor X, explaining, "And helium does the country and it is excellent."

"The manager said, 'Okay, last take, delight bash it again.' So they assistance him up and helium is performing, , similar he's being lifted by means of this magic," she endured.

"And each of a unexpected, the 'Macarena' begins gambling," Chastain stated, referring to the '90s Los del Rio earworm creation hit. "And the guys who had been protecting the wires had been having him creation the Macarena."

"There's nary topping it. I presume it turned into the high-quality," she delivered.

Chastain stated McAvoy "leaned in" to the comic story, remembering, "At 1 point, 'reason helium turned into astatine the apical of the steps, helium grabbed maine and lifted maine disconnected the ground."

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"And this is erstwhile I was like, 'Oh, yea yeah, nary no. We gotta halt 'cause I should present get hurt,' " she endured. "He turned into due amusing."

Chastain starred wrong the maximum existent X-Men film arsenic Vuk, person of the D'Bari quality beings, successful summation to the idiosyncratic Margaret Smith — a woman Vuk impersonates.

"I failed to adjacent recognize what my character's call turned into until I saw the movie," the Oscar victor admitted with amusive passim a September 2021 quality connected the Happy Sad Confused podcast.

She delivered, "It became an absorbing aspect. Simon Kinberg, who directed it, is an exquisite person, and I've labored with him erstwhile more. I emotion him."

The Good Nurse hits Netflix connected Oct. 26.