Exclusive: Jes_Chastain and Michael Shannon assume the roles of country music royalty in ‘George & Tammy,’ a six-part miniseries debuting later this year.
didn’t know much about Tammy Wynette—other than the fact that she sang the iconic 1968 hit “Stand by Your Man”—when the script for a biopic based on the country star first came across her desk.
But after doing some research, she was intrigued by both Wynette’s professional accomplishments and her tumultuous love life. “It was fascinating to me that someone like Tammy Wynette, who sang all these songs like ‘Stand by Your Man,’ also was married five times,” she tells“I was excited about this woman who was married and divorced multiple times and struggling in Nashville and really made a name for herself on her own. She charted multiple times before she met George Jones.
The relationship with fellow country icon Jones—the pair married in 1969; it was both of their third marriages—is at the center of Paramount Network’s new miniseriesAs seen in these exclusive first-look images, the series follows the musicians as they write some of their greatest hits, but also navigate the highs and lows of their volatile relationship.
“I was really moved by the love story between them—I started to listen to the music and understood that they were always singing to each other,” Chastain says. “They were both a huge part of each other’s lives.”Chastain signed onto the project back in 2011, when it was conceived by creatoras a film. More recently, the project changed directions to become a limited series, and Chastain, who is also a producer through her production company, Freckle Films, recruited Shannon to play Jones.
Though he’s a musician himself, Shannon was still intimidated by the live singing that would be required of him on the show. “George Jones is, to my ear, one of the finest singers I’ve ever heard in my life,” he says. “It’s obviously a fool’s errand to try to completely emulate that—that’s one of the reasons he’s legendary, is that there will never be another one like him.”Steve Zahn, Kelly McCormack, Katy Mixon,for several months, rehearsing many of Jones and Wynette’s biggest hits.
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