Jessica Chastain Says She Never Wanted To Get Married Until She Met The One
In an interview with WSJ. Magazine, Jessica Chastain revealed that she never wanted to get married, until she met her now-husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposulo, a fashion executive from a noble Italian family.
“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.”
She continued, “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… 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.”
“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 added. “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.”