Showtime’s new six-part series George & Tammy stars Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain as Jones and Wynette in an unblinking portrait of the duo’s professional zeniths and personal depths.
,” and “We Loved It Away,” rivaling other popular twosomes like Johnny and June, Nancy and Lee, and Porter and Dolly. After the tempestuous, and sometimes very public, disintegration of their marriage, leading to divorce in 1975, they continued recording love songs inspired by each other—both separately and together—ultimately producing two of the most impressive catalogues in the history of the country genre.
Director John Hillcoat’s limited series stars Michael Shannon and Jessica Chastain as Jones and Wynette in an unblinking portrait of the duo’s professional zeniths and personal depths as they struggled with poverty, religion, fame, alcohol and drugs, and numerous failed marriages.
It would be difficult to imagine two better actors than Chastain and Shannon—who previously starred together in Jeff Nichols’s 2011 drama—to portray hardscrabble Nashville royalty. Despite their Hollywood-lead status, both possess the workman-like ethic of character actors, keeping up the startling pace of three to five films a year on average for the past decade. Shannon’s work has often spotlighted Middle American roughnecks or rakish outsiders like mob hitman.
For her part, Chastain, who also serves as an executive producer on the series, has built one of Hollywood’s most impressive resumes playing dramatic characters with markedly “un-Hollywood” pedigrees or regional backstories, from the, for which she won the Oscar.
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