Jessica Chastain Says She Ate Banana Peels Growing Up ‘So Kids Would Notice Me’

Jessica Chastain may never have discovered her talent for acting if she’d been more devoted to her schoolwork as a child. The newly minted Oscar winner reflected on her adolescent years in an interview with The Guardian published this week. She recalled how her home life and overall disinterest in academics made the success she would later achieve seem unattainable. Advertisement “I had always thought that I wasn’t an intelligent person because I did badly at school,” Chastain said. “I was an obnoxious kid because I wasn’t getting appropriate attention. I would do things like eat banana peels in the… Read Full Article