Tag: Jennifer Lawrence
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This Weekend at the Box Office: Critical Darlings and a Raunchy Comedy Must Answer Some Key Questions
Last weekend was a critical test of the summer box office, with results more negative than positive. This weekend has the opportunity to change that course.This late June weekend is normally a high point. The last five years pre-pandemic, it saw an average gross of around $200 million (and at lower ticket prices). This year…
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Jennifer Lawrence Says Method Actors Make Her ‘Nervous,’ Prefers Christian Bale’s Technique of Getting Ready ‘10 Seconds to Action’
Jennifer Lawrence sobbed in hot sauce-related pain during an interview on “Hot Ones,” in which she also expressed nerves over working with a Method actor. Lawrence has worked with such acting heavyweights as Leonardo DiCaprio (“Don’t Look Up”) and Christian Bale (“American Hustle”) throughout her career, but no one has gone full Method to the…
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Jennifer Lawrence Is ‘Scared’ to Work with a Method Actor: ‘I Would Have No Idea How to Talk to Them’
Jennifer Lawrence is coming clean about an on-set fear: Dealing with Method actors.The Oscar winner revealed during YouTube series “Hot Ones” that she would be “nervous” to work with a Method actor.“I would be scared to work with somebody who’s Method because I would have no idea how to talk to them. Like, do I…
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Jennifer Lawrence Is “Totally Open” To The Possibility Of A TV Series In The Future
Jennifer Lawrence is at the place in her career where she can do, basically, whatever project she wants. Whether it’s an indie drama that she produces, such as “Causeway,” or a raunch R-rated comedy like “No Hard Feelings,” Lawrence is really able to flex whatever acting muscles she wants. And apparently, that’s not limited to…
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Box Office: Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘No Hard Feelings’ Aims for $12 Million Debut, ‘The Flash’ Braces for 60% Drop
Can an R-rated comedy that draws big laughs still bring in outsized ticket sales at the box office?Jennifer Lawrence’s “No Hard Feelings” will put that question to the test as the raunchy funny film opens over the weekend in 3,000 North American theaters, where it’s expected to earn a tepid $12 million in its debut.That’s…
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‘No Hard Feelings’ Review: Jennifer Lawrence’s Limp Teen Sex Comedy Falls Flat
If anyone could have saved the studio comedy, it might have been Jennifer Lawrence. But if the uneven sex comedy “No Hard Feelings” is Hollywood’s best effort, it’s not looking good for either one. Starring Lawrence as a broadly sketched caricature of an emotionally stunted, sexually liberated thirtysomething struggling to stay afloat, “No Hard Feelings”…
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No Hard Feelings review – Jennifer Lawrence comedy plays sex work for laughs
This age-gap story – Lawrence has to seduce a teenage virgin boy to get a free car – refuses to make bought sex anything resembling an issueComedy, like sex work, is real work and both can have a tough time gaining acceptance in the respectable world, so it’s a pleasure to find a comedy about…
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Actor Natalie Morales on the end of Roe: ‘I don’t want to sow divisiveness any more’
Comedy queen and director of Plan B talks about contraception, last year’s Dobbs decision and the importance of connectionIt’s not yet noon in Portland when Natalie Morales repairs to a modest Airbnb and plops on to a couch next to a deep-slumbering lap hound named Taco, a very good dog. Morales is filming a feature…