Actors Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard brought Hollywood glamour to the Toronto International Film Festival for their family drama “Memory” amid strikes that have kept most celebrities off the carpets.
from the Screen Actors Guild and the American Federation of Television and Radio Artists , allowing the stars to promote their work at a festival that’s been mostly star-less due to the ongoing writers’ and actors’ strikes.
“It came from my need to shine a light on broken people,” he said. “These are mature characters that seem to have no opportunity to be happy." “This type of movie is to connect people back with … what it’s like to be a human being, in whatever way that is,” he said.
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