Jessica Chastain performs in FINAL preview of her Broadway play A Doll's House trends now
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Oscar winner Jessica Chastain looked emotional as she emerged from the Hudson Theatre in Manhattan on Wednesday following the final preview of her Broadway play A Doll's House.
The Sacramento native - turning 46 this month - was still wearing her microphone and costume (a dark midi-sleeved, tea-length dress and booties) as she got some air right outside the back door of the stage.
Jessica's character Nora Helmer abandons her husband Torvald (Succession's Arian Moayed) and three children at the end of Henrik Ibsen's proto-feminist masterwork originally set in a small Norwegian town circa 1879.
'It's very, very exciting to me - examining Nora from this modern lens of what a woman in today's society is,' Chastain told Playbill last Friday.
'I like [director Jamie Lloyd and playwright Amy Herzog's reimagining] because everyone is responsible in this version. I hope when the audience comes to see it, they don't see it as, "Oh, this man has oppressed this woman. And he's a bad guy. And now, she's free to go experience the world."'
Opening night tomorrow! Oscar winner Jessica Chastain looked emotional as she emerged from the Hudson Theatre in Manhattan on Wednesday following the final preview of her Broadway play A Doll's House
The George & Tammy producer-star continued: '[Amy] makes it just feel so real and so honest and so personal. The language feels like it belongs to everyone in the room. I find it to be incredibly inspiring to work on. I don't have to manufacture, I don't have to dig deep.
'I can just simply say the words and allow them to take
