'The Help's' Jessica Chastain: 'Torture' Attaining 15 Pounds for Film

Jessica Chastain had some trouble attaining weight to experience Lana Turner-esque Celia in "The Assistance.InchInchI needed to be soft and curvy, and so i ate lots of soy," Chastain -- who's a vegan -- informs "E! News.""Soy can help you become curvy since it has oestrogen inside it. What exactly I'd doand this is actually grossis buy cartons of soy ice scream, microwave it and drink it. It had been disgusting [But] wait until the thing is my breasts within the movie," she joked.Chastain added about 15 pounds to her frame."It had been like a kind of torture because you put onto all of this weight after which you are within the South where it is hot and muggy and you are wearing girdles to suck you in," she stated from the Jackson, Miss.-based movie, which opened up to $5.5 million on Wednesday.But she rapidly dropped it after filming wrapped on DreamWorks' adaptation of Kathryn Stockett's best-selling novel."I perform a large amount of yoga," she states. "I am also vegan, to ensure that helps. I slim down really quick." The Hollywood Reporter