Jennifer Lawrence Says Comedy Should ‘Offend’ Audiences: ‘You’re Welcome’

Jennifer Lawrence has no hard feelings over offending audiences.The Oscar winner and “No Hard Feelings” actress-producer told Sky News that the hallmark of a great comedy film is making viewers uncomfortable.“I think it’s time for a good old-fashioned laugh,” Lawrence said, “and it really is hard to make a comedy where you’re not offending people.

Everybody in some sense will be offended by this film — you’re welcome.”The “Silver Linings Playbook” actress continued, “Something we learned from the old-time comedies is mean comedy is not really funny, making somebody feel bad about themselves – other than me making fun of me.

But the way that we did it is fine, we figured it out.”Lawrence’s “No Hard Feelings” co-star Andrew Barth Feldman echoed her sentiments about the Gene Stupnitsky-helmed film that follows a failed Uber driver (Lawrence) in her quest to get a new car……

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