Not many people can say they’ve won an Oscar and worked with Beyoncé — but Jessica Chastain can.
In a conversaition with Entertainment Tonight on the red carpet at the 10th Breakthrough Prize Awards on Saturday, the Eyes of Tammy Faye actress reflected on working with Queen Bey and Jay-Z back in 2017.
“I would always work with The Carters. There’s no , like, yeah of course,” she said. “That’s why the second I got the call about their music video that I did, ‘Family Feud,’ [I said] ‘This is not even a question, you don’t even need to ask this question.’”
In 2017, Chastain starred in a music video for “Family Feud” — a track from Jay-Z’s Billboard 200-topping 4:44. The visual, helmed by Oscar nominee Ava DuVernay, featured an eye-popping cast of film and television stars, including Michael B. Jordan, Rosario Dawson, Brie Larson, Thandiwe Newton, Trevante Rhodes, Omari Hardwick, Niecy Nash, Janet Mock and Mindy Kaling. The cinematic clip begins in the year 2050 with a grown-up Blue Ivy Carter leading a convention of the Founding Mothers of a fictional nation.
DuVernay won the 2018 BET Award for video director of the year for the “Family Feud” music video, and the song peaked at No. 51 on the Billboard Hot 100 and earned a Grammy nomination for best rap/sung performance.
Recently, Chastain showed her love for the “II Most Wanted” singer by using the Hot 100-topping “Texas Hold ‘Em” in a video of her getting ready for an awards show. “Whenever she needs me, I’m there,” added the Oscar winner, who picked up her leading actress statuette for 2022’s The Eyes of Tammy Faye.
While fans continue to wait on the Renaissance and Cowboy Carter visuals, they can see their fellow Beyhive member Chastain in the recently released psychological thriller Mothers’ Instinct. The Benoît Delhomme-helmed flick, which co-stars Oscar winner Anne Hathaway, is a 1960s-set remake of Olivier Masset-Depasse’s 2018 French-language film same of the name. Masset-Depasse’s film is adapted from Barbra Abel’s 2012 novel.
Chastain is just one of countless celebs who have been loving Beyoncé’s dip into country. From Sarah Paulson to Olivia Rodrigo, everyone is getting their two-step on to Cowboy Carter.
