10 Ridiculous Actor Stories You Won't Believe Are Real
7. Jessica Chastain Used To Eat Orange And Banana Peels To Get People To Notice Her
Before going on to win an Academy Award or even realising that the acting life was for her, Jessica Chastain was simply a youngster who yearned for some attention at elementary school.
She would eventually find theatre at junior high. However, in the time leading up to that, the star recently admitted to Marc Maron on his WTF Podcast (around 40-minutes in) that she developed a pretty bizarre habit to ensure she was noticed by her fellow classmates.
When sitting down in the school cafeteria each day, Chastain would actually chow down on a bunch of orange and banana peels in plain sight. And while she knew said act was "terrible", the future Eyes of Tammy Faye star just wanted folks to pay attention to her.
The fact she was being noticed "for being a weirdo" didn't matter to her at the time because, though it was unquestionably a little odd to spend her lunch times munching fruit peels, she felt that "at least I was existing, I'm something."
Had the Oscar-winner not discovered her fellow weirdos in the theatre a few years later, perhaps she'd still be eliciting funny looks for her orange and banana peel snacks in the staff room today.