Jessica Chastain Never Wanted Marriage Until…

Jessica Chastain was never in love with marriage until she met Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, she tells WSJ. Magazine.

Chastain and Preposulo, a fashion executive from a noble Italian family, married in Italy last year after beginning their romance in 2012.

• “When I first met my husband, he knew that marriage wasn’t something I was interested in. And then as we got to know each other, the idea of marriage shifted for me,” she explains. “There are some things worth celebrating – and he’s worth celebrating.”
• Chastain continues, “I actually love being married. I never thought I would, but this is a spectacular human being, and I am celebrating that I get to share my life with him.”
• Chastain says that growing up, she saw her single mother struggle.
• “My mom was a single mom; I don’t know who my biological father is, and I grew up in a household that was really financially unstable,” the 40-year-old Oscar nominee shares.
• “There was a turning point in my life where we were living with someone I didn’t like very much, a boyfriend of my mom’s,” she recalls. “And he did something – my room was messy or whatever and he had taken my clothes, and I was telling him to give me back my stuff – and he slapped me. And I just kicked him in the genitals, and he fell to the ground immediately. It was me, my sister and my brother – and I remember looking at my sister’s face, and we were both like, ‘Oh, my God, what did I just do?’ And then I ran out of the house. But I always look back on that moment as knowing that, okay, if anything happens to me, I’m capable of fighting back.”
• “He never messed with me again,” the actress adds. “If you allow a bully to intimidate or victimize you, they’ll continue to do it. Bullies are actually weak; they don’t go after strong people.”