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Dec 02, 2022 1 min, 21 secs
SANTA MONICA, Calif.  – Jessica Chastain did all the heavy lifting in one weighty scene for Showtime's "George & Tammy." .

As country legend Tammy Wynette, Chastain literally carried her 6-foot-3 co-star Michael Shannon – playing Wynette's passed-out husband, fellow country music legend George Jones – up a flight of stairs.

"Aren't you impressed?" Chastain triumphantly asks Shannon, as both are seated on a couch at Hotel Casa Del Mar. "Aren't you like, 'Man, she's 5-foot-4 and she carried my 6-foot-whatever (butt) up those stairs?'".

Solo heroics aside, it took the combined powers of Oscar-winning Chastain, 45, and two-time Oscar nominee Shannon, 48, to tell all the dramatic highs and lows of the president and first lady of country music in the six-part "George & Tammy" series (premiering Sunday, 9 EST/PST on both Showtime and Paramount Network). .

As "George and Tammy" morphed over a decade and Josh Brolin dropped out of the Jones role, executive producer Chastain called up her "great collaborator" Shannon for an epic TV adventure – examining the famed couple with more than 30 No.

"But there's a reason why it's called 'George & Tammy.' We focused on what happened between these two, which is really like a Romeo and Juliet story.".

"Everyone looks at Tammy Wynette and goes, 'She's singing this anti-woman song with lyrics all about needing a man,'" says Chastain of the one-time beautician who pursued her impossible singing dreams.

"The singing didn't bother me too much," says Shannon, who performs in an alt-rock band

It was very emotional," says Chastain

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