This weekend, Jennifer Lawrence goes into spy mode with “Red Sparrow,” marking her second straight blockbuster genre effort (the previous being the sci-fi misfire “Passengers“). However, the actress might be returning to the world of prestige pictures with another movie from director David O. Russell whom she worked with on “Silver Linings Playbook,” “American Hustle” and “Joy.”
Doing the rounds for “Red Sparrow,” Lawrence rolled by “WTF With Marc Maron” and spilled that she could be in front of cameras very soon in a new project by Russell, saying, “I think maybe in the fall.”
“I don’t know where the ideas come from, I just normally get a middle of the night phone call,” she added. “His latest idea now that we might do in the fall, he was trying to pitch it to me, and it took like six hours, and I was like ‘What?‘ And then his latest pitch I was like, ‘Fuck, yeah, okay!’ He tightened it up.”
What the exact story might be is under wraps, but Russell and Lawrence have been batting around ideas for a while now. Back in 2015, the actress teased the following about something they were working on: “David is making something right now and the plan, so far, is for me to play Bob De Niro’s mother … I think that the more people give him crap about me being too young for his parts, he’s like, ‘Oh yeah, watch this’ — so we’ll see.” To be clear, this wasn’t in jest, and presumably it would be something where Lawrence would appear in flashbacks.
As for the director, he once talked about a 600-page family opus he was developing. Or maybe he’s found a way to repurpose his scrapped Amazon series.
At any rate, Lawrence is no stranger to working with idiosyncratic, visionary directors, as evidenced by last year’s “mother!” She praises her relationship with Darren Aronofsky (noting they had “sexual tension” right from the start), and makes it clear that while “mother!” might be about the dangers of working with obsessive creatives (among other things), Aronofsky himself, in her experience, was nothing like Javier Bardem‘s egomaniacal poet. However, there’s one auteur whose latest film she doesn’t get and/or doesn’t really have time for: Paul Thomas Anderson‘s “Phantom Thread.”
“I got through about three minutes of it. I put in a good solid three. I’m sorry to anybody who loved that movie,” Lawrence said.
Maron tries to explain that “Phantom Thread” needs a bit more of an investment to settle into its grooves, but the actress wasn’t really having it.
“I couldn’t give that kind of time. It was three minutes and I was just [oof],” she said.
“….Is it just about clothes? Is [Reynolds Woodcock] kind of like a narcissistic sociopath and he’s an artist so every girl falls in love him because he makes her feel bad about herself and that’s the love story? I haven’t seen it, so I don’t know. I’ve been down that road, I know what what’s like, I don’t need to watch that movie [laughs],” Lawrence added.
Of course, “Phantom Thread” isn’t like that at all, and is far more complex, but the actress does clarify that when it comes to narcissistic sociopaths, she’s not referring to Aronofsky. Listen to her full conversation with Maron below.
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Philistine! 😉
Phantom Thread was perfect.
it’s says a person who acted in a shitty and pretentious movie like Mother!…hilarious.
Mother sucked. Phantom Thread was almost a masterpiece. If anything deserved to be turned off, it was Mother. Boring, poorly made AND cheap looking, pretentious and really unnecessary.
I get that you didn’t like it, but how was mother! poorly made? And cheap looking? What?
I mean JOY is just about some lady making a mop.
Respect her as an actress but some of things coming out of her mouth lately are pretty dumb. Making a verdict on something you spent 3 minutes on? For someone who wants to dip her toes in politics that kind of reactionary thinking is why we are in this mess to begin with.
She just understand movies for 14 year old. Movies like Phantom Thread or Silence are waaaay too much for her.
Very strange comments about Phantom Thread indeed. Speaking her mind or simply rude? Presumably in Holywood, once you can command a certain wage level, you can dismiss and denegrade other movies and artists without consideration of consequence. My estimation of Jennifer Lawrence the person has fallen.
interesting to read the support for “phantom thread”, which i suspect lawrence spent a bit more time with than she admits. aside from daniel day lewis’ performance, which as always is terrific, i thought the movie was just “good”, until the last half of the third act–where it lost me. or i lost it. honestly, people, if this were a different director, with a different lead (but everything else the same, especially the script), would your enthusiasm be the same? in terms of david o. russell, his films usually are great for the first two acts and then a bit too “loosely edited” in the third act. he should try understatement on occasion. but i watch them.
I watched her (Lawrence) in something once. A few minutes in & “I was just [oof],”
Now 4, 5 & 6 minutes with a flick, that’s just too much to expect. Really now. If the movie isn’t 82 5 % plain as day by the 2cnd or 3rd minute well … ” [oof] ” “I’m very very busy. I just wouldn’t have any time for it. Like Ya No” ?
@JLaw
You’re right not wanting to see picture that you’ve experienced yourself.
It’s entertainment.
I don’t and no matter how rude you are to me,
I refuse to waste my time only to prove that either you have no life experience or are one bad character yourself.
Ever heard of ‘preference’ ?
I do see dramas sometimes and some are quite good, most are horrendous over-praised soaps to prove how intellectual, refined they are but they don’t see greatness in anything they view as less intellectual. AKA ‘living in your head’.
A confined mind seeking ready to go meals, no wonder our elite are stagnating.