Jessica Chastain says she did “permanent damage” to her skin playing Tammy Faye Bakker

Jessica Chastain does not hide how uncomfortable she felt doing makeup to play Tammy Faye Bakker.

The star of “Molly’s Game” will play the famous televangelist of the upcoming biopic “The Eyes of Tammy Faye,” and told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published Monday, which did not highlight the fact that she was wearing “heavy” makeup for Bakker to play the role.

“I think I definitely did some permanent damage to my skin,” he told the newspaper when asked about how he kept his skin from cracking. “Listen, I eat very pure and I take very good care of my skin and I stay out of the sun and all that. But it is heavy. And when you wear it all day every day, the weight on your body stretches your skin. “

The 44-year-old Oscar-nominated actor even joked when, when he finished his make-up, “I said I was 50!”

Chastain said at the exit that the longest he sat in the film’s makeup chair was seven and a half hours, and not only did he wear the “most prosthesis” he’s ever had for the role, but that the layers of makeup were intense. too.

“Even the tanner and base are much darker and the lashes are thicker,” he said. “Makeup gets heavier as you get older.”

Because of this, Chastain said his transformation into a tabloid apparatus known for his bluffing blond blonde and blue eye shadow was exhausting. So much so that at first he worried that the application and use of makeup would hinder his performance.

“I started to get dressed and I was so scared. I started to have hot flashes because it’s very hot “, he admitted. “I was scared. It was like going on a long-haul flight every day. Because if it takes seven and a half hours to get on, it will take at least two hours to get off. I was worried. I was worried about my movement. When I entered the set that one the first day, which was seven and a half hours, he would say to me, “I have no energy left.” And he is supposed to appear with so much energy. ”

In fact, Bakker had a lot of energy (or shall we say caboodles?) While appearing on the hugely popular show “The PTL Club,” in which “PTL” means “Praise the Lord.”

Tammy Faye and her husband, Jim Bakker (who will be played by Andrew Garfield), founded the Christian television program in 1974 and soon followed this success with the PTL television network and Heritage USA, an amusement park. Christian theme. .

The couple’s multimillion-dollar empire began to unravel in the 1980s, after Jim was charged with sexual assault and later charged with numerous counts of fraud and conspiracy after a federal review of the finances of the PTL television network.

The Bakkers divorced in 1992 and Tammy Faye remarried. In 2007 he died of cancer at the age of 65.

And while Tammy Faye was known for her extreme makeup, Chastain said she didn’t think she needed to question why she wore so much.

“It simply came to our notice then. It makes her feel beautiful. That’s enough, “said Chastain. “That’s how he wants to present himself to the world. Why do we have to justify it? ”