Jessica Chastain Admits Her ‘Whole Body Was Shaking’ When She Fell Onstage At SAG Awards

Not adjacent a stumble was going to bring Jessica Chastain down. “I’ve very, very, precise happy,” Jessica, 45, told Access Hollywood following the 2023 Screen Actors Guild Award, wherever she won Best Female Actor successful a Television Movie oregon Series for George & Tammy. Jessica took the prize implicit Emily Blunt (The English), Julia Garner (Inventing Anna), Niecy Nash-Betts (Dahmer), and Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout), and the daze of triumph resulted successful her joining the database of greatest grant amusement falls. “I’m walking up there, and I recognize I’m successful occupation due to the fact that my full assemblage is shaking, and I’m like, ‘OK I’m gonna request assistance up the stairs,’ and past I started to trip,” she told Access Hollywood. Thankfully, the autumn wasn’t excessively bad, and she could get up to the podium in 1 piece.

Just realized that Jessica Chastain tripped connected her mode to the signifier 😭😭 pic.twitter.com/q5eXkSxtAb

— Valen TheThing Era (@StarcoVision) February 27, 2023

“The daze of past nighttime truly swept maine disconnected my feet!” Jessica aboriginal tweeted on with a video of her acceptance speech. “To my chap SAG members, THANK YOU. It means truthful overmuch to beryllium recognized by you. I americium honored to beryllium capable to bring the communicative of #GeorgeAndTammy to you. I loved playing Tammy Wynette. Thank you  @georgette_jones for trusting maine with your mom’s story, Abe Sylvia, for crafting it into our beauteous 6 episodes, the GOAT #michaelshannon, & the colony astatine @showtime. I’m backmost successful NY and inactive implicit the moon.”

The daze of past nighttime truly swept maine disconnected my feet! 😅 To my chap SAG members, THANK YOU. It means truthful overmuch to beryllium recognized by you. I americium honored to beryllium capable to bring the communicative of #GeorgeAndTammy to you. I loved playing Tammy Wynette. pic.twitter.com/4sN5MvLzQI

— Jessica Chastain (@jes_chastain) February 27, 2023

Jessica besides told PEOPLE that she was a “little embarrassed’ by the stumble, but it had a metallic lining. “I tripped connected the stairs — but I had 2 precise handsome men helping maine up, truthful that wasn’t truthful bad,” she said of the men, 1 of which was Paul Mescal. “I’m conscionable truthful implicit the satellite and happy, and I can’t judge it,” added Jessica, who claimed her 3rd SAG Award.

(Christopher Polk/Shutterstock for SAG Awards)

Jessica is presently performing successful a Broadway accumulation of A Doll’s House, which she mentioned successful her speech. “Every time aft the amusement I get the accidental to conscionable radical astatine the signifier door, and I get to conscionable a batch of actors who archer maine their stories,” she said, earlier saying however the precocious Philip Seymour Hoffman came to talk astatine her assemblage class. “He told america each his frustrating stories astir auditions, and helium encouraged america to support going adjacent erstwhile we felt similar nary 1 was watching us. And astatine the extremity of the talk, helium said, ‘I look guardant to moving with each of you,’ and it truly shocked maine due to the fact that it was similar helium brought it into being. A fewer years aboriginal it came true, and I had the accidental to bash a play with him.”

“I’m telling this communicative present due to the fact that it reminds maine of however almighty our caput is and that we are what our thoughts create,” she added. “So I conscionable wanna archer everyone who mightiness beryllium struggling astatine home, to each the actors that I get to meet: Keep going. You’re 1 occupation away. I look guardant to moving with you. I’ll spot you connected set. I emotion you.”

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