Jessica Chastain recently shared a glimpse of her honorary doctorate ceremony held at her alma mater, The Juilliard School, People reported.
The Oscar winner attended Juilliard from 1999 to 2003 and graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts.
The “Zero Dark Thirty” actress received her honorary doctorate from the Juilliard School for her “outstanding contributions” to the fields of film and theater, the university said in a statement.
In the video, she shared a glimpse of the entire ceremony, from receiving her official ceremony ticket to putting on her cap and gown.
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Although he joked, his head was too big for the doctoral tam. “He’s too tight,” the Oscar winner could be seen telling staff members helping her prepare for her honor. “I have a huge head. It’s shocking… I think it’s long.”
After her tam was cut to make it larger, Chastain posed for photos with the rest of the honorees before marching into the auditorium for the ceremony, saying goodbye and blowing a kiss to the camera before receiving her hood and honorary degree.
“Dr. Chastain sounds great,” she wrote in the caption of the post. “Thank you @juilliardschool for this honor and the custom hat, congratulations to the class of 2024!”
In addition to being an honorary doctor, the Eyes of Tammy Faye actress graduated from Juilliard and earned her BFA in 2003. In a 2012 interview with The New York Times, she talked about going to NY from his small Northern California community for the first time in 1999, when he started school.
“It was difficult,” he told the Times. “I had never spent much time in a city like this. But everything I longed for was here. I had never seen a foreign film and Lincoln Center was across the street. One day I was sitting in the cafeteria and Baryshnikov was in my room. table. It was everything I had dreamed of since I was a child.”
Chastain also said that Juilliard was notoriously competitive at the time and that students could be cut at any time if they were not doing well.
“I was worried all the time about getting cut. It was unfounded, because my sophomore year I got a scholarship,” Chastain said in the interview, recalling how she barely hung out with friends because she studied so hard during her college years. . “…There was a bar here called Malachy’s, where everyone went to hang out, and I think I only went twice in four years. I’m just obsessive. I was reading or watching movies. My “All my life I wanted to be here, and when I was, I wanted to absorb it all.
She also had several well-known classmates at school, including Oscar Isaac, her Scenes from a Marriage co-star.
Some of Chastain’s other famous friends chimed in below her video to send her congratulations on her huge academic achievement. Julianne Hough wished her lots of “congratulations,” and Tatum O’Neal left plenty of heart and hand emojis of praise in her comments.
Among the others awarded honorary degrees Thursday were dancer Carolyn Adams, members of the Emerson String Quartet and composer and conductor Tania Leon, People reported.
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