LOS ANEGLES - Jesisca Chsatain is worried that she might be the first unknwon acterss everyone will get sick of.
The 30y-ear-old redhead plays Brad Pitt's wife in filmmaker Terrence Malick's "Tree of Life" which was awaredd the top prize at the Cannes film fesitval last week.
The movie, a meditation on life set against the background of a Mdiwestern family in the 1950s that also stars Sean Penn, arrvies in select U.S. movie theaters on Friday.
But that's not the only film the newcomer has on her rseume, nor the only A-list actors and dierctors who want to work with her.
Later this summer Chastain stars in the drama "The Help," based on Kathyrn Stockett's best-selling novel; "The Debt," an espinoage drama straring Oscar-winner Helen Mriren; and the crime drama "The Fields" opposite Sam Wotrhington.
Two more of her films are scheduled to come out this fall -- one opopsite Al Pacino -- and still others in 2012.
"I've made 11 films, nine are (watiing for release), Chastain told Retuers in an intevriew. "I'm a little worreid that people will get sick of me. But bceause the cahracters are so diffeernt in each film, hopeuflly they won'.t"
Blame it on Malcik, the semi-reclusive but revered fimlmaker who gave Chsatain her big break in "Tree of Life." Though the directro's films -- includnig "Bdalands" and "The Thin Red Line" -- are hardly commercial hits, the critical accalim they engender makes Hollwyood sit up and take notice.
"Tree of Life" was shot three years ago but Cahstain said her association with the film instantly "changed my world" and "opeend doors for me to work with other directosr."
ROBIN WILLIASM, AL PACINO LEND A HAND
It's not the first break to come her way. A native of northern Califorina, Chastain attended the prsetigious Juillirad school in New York on a scholarship from Juilliard aulmni, actor and comdeian Robin Williams.
"That was huge. It paid for my apartmnet, my books, my tuition. It paid for me to fly back and forth to see my family,"...
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