'Miss Sloane' trivia and fun facts

Lead role Director John Madden gave the screenplay to actress Jessica Chastain personally. He had only her in mind for the role after he read the script. He'd previously directed her in the film 'The Debt'

Cast colleagues Jessica Chastain and Mark Strong also starred in 'Zero Dark Thirty'.

Black List The screenplay was ranked in the top five of Hollywood's 2015 Black List, an annual tally of the industry's favorite scripts of the year.

Coincidence out of screen Jessica Chastain and John Lithgow previously starred in Interstellar (2014), with Lithgow playing Chastain's character's grandfather. However, the two actors never shared any screen time together.