Jessica Chastain Says Taylor Swift Made Her ‘a Breakup Playlist’ After Their First Meeting at the Met Gala

Jessica Chastain has Taylor Swift to thank for getting her through her last breakup.

On Friday, Scenes from a marriage the actress, 46, revealed on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon that Swift, 34, sent her a breakup playlist after the pair first met at the 2011 Met Gala.

“We were both sitting next to each other … and she was so cute,” Chastain, 46, told host Jimmy Fallon, also explaining that it was the first time she’d been invited to the annual fashion event.

She continued: “I had just gone through a breakup and I talked to her about it and we went and danced together – it was such a fun night.”

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Chastain and Swift at the 2014 Golden Globe Awards.

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“And then the next day I got an email from iTunes that said, like, ‘Taylor Swift’ or whatever, and I just thought it was a Taylor Swift album,” Chastain continued, before adding that revealed that Swift “had made me a breakup playlist that she sent me! Isn’t that the sweetest thing?”

“What are you kidding me about? That’s amazing!” Fallon (49) responded.

“I know! And here I was thinking it was like a Taylor Swift commercial,” Chastian added. “And she, like, curated all these breakup songs to send to me to help me get through the breakup.”

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Although Chastain did not reveal the details of who she broke up with in 2011, she met her future husband Gian Luca Passi de Preposul a year later in 2012. The couple has been married since 2017.

Chastain’s continued to support Swift over the years, as Fallon shared a photo on the show of her visiting the singer backstage with friends on her Eras tour earlier this year.

“I was in Mexico City and she was on tour there and I was like, ‘Oh, I’m going to Taylor’s concert,'” Chastain explained of the photo.

“This is my assistant Ali and she’s like, obsessed with Taylor Swift and it was like the best day of her life. And I met Taylor, she’s actually really sweet,” she added.

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Chastain can next be seen co-starring with Peter Sarsgaard in the upcoming film Memory, written and directed by Michel Franco. The film follows Sylvia (played by Chastain), a social worker whose life unravels when Saul (Sarsgaard) follows her home from their high school reunion, opening a door to the past.

“It was so much about this woman being calcified by life and just really moving through the world using trauma as a shield to keep anyone from getting close to her,” Chastain told IndieWire about the film in September.

The film has been nominated for the top honor of the Golden Lion at the 2023 Venice International Film Festival, and Sarsgaard, 52, also won the Volpi Cup for best actor for his work on the project.

Memory opens in theaters nationwide on December 22.

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