Chastain is no stranger to action. We've seen her tough side as the tenacious CIA operative who tracked down Bin Laden in Zero Dark Thirty, and she honed her skills as a villain playing one of the main adversaries in the upcoming X-Men: Dark Phoenix. Most recently, she's starring as the determined artist who captures portraits of Sitting Bull in Woman Walks Ahead, and she's joined the cast of hot property It: Chapter Two, where she'll play Beverly Marsh, the female member of the Losers Club.
This well-rounded résumé, dotted with big-budget popcorn flicks, has us thinking Chastain has both the talent and the face recognition to headline the kind of Summer blockbuster that made Dr. Jones a household name.