“There’s no topping it.
It was the best.”
Beware, fellow actors: The odds ofJessica Chastainpranking you mid-take are low, but never zero.
Jessica Chastain and James McAvoy.Ian West/PA Images
It involved Los del Rio’s ’90s dance craze the Macarena.
“I’ve worked with James McAvoy.
“You gotta really plan who to prank.”
“He does the scene and it’s good,” Chastain recounted to hostKelly Clarkson.
“The director said, ‘Okay, fine.
Roll take, let’s do it again.’
And the guys who were holding the wires were having him dance the Macarena.”
She added, “There’s no topping it.
It was the best.”
“He leaned in,” she said.
We gotta stop because I could now get hurt.'
He was good fun.”
Chastain previously discussed the prank while sitting down with Turner fora Collider interviewin 2019.
“The stunt guys kind of puppeteer him [into] doing the Macarena as a surprise.”
“And I’ll say this,” Chastain added.
“He was never grumpy again.
He learned his lesson.”
