Jessica Chastain reacts to viral moment when Oscar Isaac kissed her arm: 'DON'T HATE'
"Don't hate," the Scenes From a Marriage actress told pal Mindy Kaling
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Jessica Chastain knows everyone is still talking about that moment between her and Oscar Isaac at the Venice Film Festival over the weekend. You know, THE moment the Scenes From a Marriage co-stars gazed dreamily into one another’s eyes on the red carpet as Isaac caressed and kissed her arm as cameras flashed wildly.
Chastain knows that it was so talked-about that now the two-time Oscar nominee has had to respond to actress Mindy Kaling after The Office star questioned the viral moment between Chastain and Isaac.
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“Why is Oscar Isaac the only person allowed to kiss your inner arm?” Kaling asked, to which Chastain replied “Don’t hate LOL.”
Chastain, 44, also addressed the steamy embrace by sharing a still from The Addams Family in which Gomez Addams — who Isaac, 42, voices in the animated version — kisses Morticia’s arm, along with the date Scenes From a Marriage releases.
Reaction to the intimate moment dominated social media for days, with AJ+ journalist Sana Saeed writing, “We were all blessed to learn no one will ever look at us the way Oscar Isaac looks at Jessica Chastain.”
Little White Lies editor Hannah Strong tweeted, “Interesting choice to award the Golden Lion to that slow mo Getty Images clip of Oscar Isaac kissing Jessica Chastain’s arm but I respect it.”
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The upcoming limited series, which debuts this Sunday on Crave, reunites the longtime friends, who were classmates at New York’s Julliard arts school and starred together in 2014’s A Most Violent Year.
While in real life the pair are happily married — to other people — Chastain and Isaac described their close bond off set as “both a blessing and a curse” when it came to portraying a couple wrestling with love, marriage, monogamy and divorce.
“We got to the point where we were reading each other’s minds and I was like, ‘get out of my head!’ I felt on this job there was no quiet time,” Chastain said.
But the familiarity the two have with one another made the work enjoyable.
“Oscar I’ve known for 20 years and we went to college together. We have the same process,” Chastain told People magazine. “When I got the scripts, I knew immediately it was going to be like a play, because most of it’s just him and I talking for an hour, sometimes not calm. So I knew it was basically just acting with Oscar.”
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