Jessica Chastain, Michael Shannon reveal 'George & Tammy' tragic love: 'Romeo and Juliet story'

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It took the combined powers of Oscar-winning Jessica Chastain, 45, and two-time Oscar nominee Michael Shannon, 48, to illustrate all the dramatic highs and lows of country music legends Tammy Wynette and George Jones in Showtime's 'George & Tammy.'

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"Aren't you impressed?" Chastain triumphantly asks Shannon, as both are seated on a couch at Hotel Casa Del Mar. "Aren't you like, 'Man, she's 5-foot-4 and she carried my 6-foot-whatever up those stairs?'" The love and musical collaboration between the two continued even as they married new partners, right up until Wynette died at 55 in 1998 after health battles worsened by a debilitating addiction to painkillers."They just couldn't quit each other. Ever," says Chastain.

"Everyone looks at Tammy Wynette and goes, 'She's singing this anti-woman song with lyrics all about needing a man,'" says Chastain of the one-time beautician who pursued her impossible singing dreams."In reality, there was something quite punk rock about her. She showed up in Nashville unmarried with three kids, determined to be a singer. The only way she could do that in that time was to play the role of a woman incomplete without a man taking care of her.

 

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