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Jessica Chastain covers the January 2015 issue of InStyle magazine photographed by Giampaolo Sgura and styled by Melissa Rubini

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Jessica Chastain’s InStyle pictures look like a designer lookbook and her hair is on point

On what she found out when embarking on her acting career: “There were two kinds of roles for women. You are either the girlfriend, incredibly beautiful but not much going on, or the victim, like the weird neighbor. It’s like the two ideas of women that are talked about: the slut or the wife. And that’s not so interesting.”

 

On trying to find better roles for herself: “As an audience member I go to the movies a lot, and I want to see women portrayed like the ones I know—women who are really intelligent and strong and vulnerable.’I’m not interested in playing a stereotype.”

 

 

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On her chosen career: "When I first started playing bars in Texas, my parents had to come so I could get in. I didn't have any other plans. I didn't go to college. There was no, 'if this doesn't work out…' It
was like: 'This has to work out!' When I walk into a bar and smell old beer and cigarettes, it smells like home, because that's where I grew up."

On writing and singing her own songs: "Early on, an artist told me, 'Don't be yourself. Perform and be someone else. And I thought, 'That seems like exactly the opposite of what I should be doing.' Then I had people wanting me to adjust my lyrics to be more appealing to the masses or whatever. I said, 'No, that's bullshit.' I'd rather sell four copies of something that's real than 4 million copies of something that's fake."

 

On her 20-pound weight loss: "When you have to walk out there in front of thousands of people, it does feel good to know that your shit's not jiggling. I'm just like anybody else, insecure and scared of looking bad or being criticized. But everybody's making this big, giant thing about it. It's way too much focus on women's bikini photos, and I hate it. Why do we care? I want women to love themselves whatever they've got going on."

On lightening up psychologically: "I'm always anxious. I will worry myself into oblivion. I was trying to make everything regimented, and it caused too much stress. I learned everything doesn't have to be perfect. That sometimes it's OK to say, 'I don't want to be the boss today. I have PMS. Bother someone else.' I like things better flawed anyway."

On marriage: "I'm not sunshine and roses. Blake's the happiest person on the planet. He pulls me out of my darkness … Literally, everything is the best about being married."