Jennifer Lawrence, who is coming to screens these days in comedy No Hard Feelings, grew up in Kentucky, where she was not known for being a good student, suffered from anxiety and acting was never an option .
During these times in her childhood, her fears grew and her parents began taking her to therapy, Vogue magazine reported in 2013. “I was a freak,” she said.
“They didn’t mess with me or anything. And I wasn’t any smarter than the other kids, that wasn’t why I didn’t fit in. I’ve always had this strange fear. I hated breaks. I didn’t like hiking. Parties stressed me out. He had a very different sense of humor,” he told the Vogue interviewer.
On the same occasion, she confessed that she had never said it before because she didn’t want it to be misunderstood, but that since childhood she had always had a normal idea of what she wanted.
“I wanted to be a mother, I wanted to be a doctor, and I wanted to live in Kentucky. But I always knew I was going to be famous,” she said.
At the age of 14, he traveled to Manhattan to read his first handwriting, according to the IMDb page. On this trip, an agent noticed her, took her picture, and invited her to the studio for another audition.
Last summer, Lawrence spent this summer in the Big Apple. Before that, she left school at just 14 to pursue her dream of becoming an actress and moved to California when she was 16.
The role that marked a turning point in her career was as Ree in the 2010 film Winter’s Bone, for which she received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations.
Shortly thereafter, the sagas “The X-Men” and “The Hunger Games” followed. In 2012, she starred opposite Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, a title for which she won an Academy Award for Best Actress.
While picking up his Oscar in 2013, he tripped and fell in the air. “It was one of the most embarrassing moments of my entire life,” he told Vanity Fair in 2014.
“It took me a while to laugh about it. I cried,” he added. This stumbling block, however, reinforced the naturalness he displayed in front of the general public.
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Probably the most uncomfortable and unfair chapter he had to go through was the distribution of his private photos in 2014.
The photos were stored in the cloud, which was accessed by a cybercriminal and spread across the internet like wildfire. Lawrence wasn’t the only one affected, and other women also suffered the same attack.
“I was so scared,” he told the magazine. “I didn’t know how that would affect my career.”
On the subject, he elaborated: “I can’t even describe how it feels to have my naked body against my will anywhere in the world. It just makes me feel like I’m selling a piece of meat to make a profit.”
Lawrence expressed his outrage: “It’s my body and it should be my choice and the fact that it’s not is absolutely disgusting.”
In 2018, she took time off to focus on her role as an activist. Lawrence is involved in the organization Represent US, which denounces political corruption and does educational work among the youth of her country.
As for her personal life, she married gallerist Cooke Maroney in 2019 after a very discreet relationship.
In September 2021, it became known that the famous actress is expecting her first child, who was born on February 23, 2022.
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Lawrence, 32, will return to the big screen this summer of 2023. This time with a classic and raunchy adult comedy, No Hard Feelings, that was tailor-made for the Oscar-winning actress.
“I’ve always wanted to do a comedy. And I read a lot,” Lawrence told The Associated Press in an interview about the summer film season.
“I just didn’t read anything that was funny enough,” he added.
“No Hard Feelings” was inspired by an actual Craigslist ad posted by parents looking for a woman to “freak out” their son in the pre-college summer.
There’s debate over how real the “real ad” was, but the thought of the woman who might respond to such an ad was such a funny premise that it caught the attention of several producers and writer-director Gene Stupnitsky.
Jennifer Lawrence (left) and Andrew Barth Feldman pose upon arrival for the premiere of ‘No Hard Feelings’ in London June 12, 2023Vianney Le Caer/Invision/AP
Stupnitsky, As the Emmy-nominated The Office actor, who also directed and co-wrote the 2019 hit Good Boys, he knew exactly who to call. He pitched the idea to Lawrence one night at a dinner party with friends, where he estimated they’d had “eight or nine martinis” together.
The two met over a decade ago through a mutual friend at the Medieval Times dinner and show.
He recalled Lawrence wearing a full wizard costume. And soon they became true friends.
Stupnitsky even introduced Lawrence to the one who was to become her husband.
“I owed him one,” Lawrence said. “That’s why I made this film.”
Director Gene Stupnitsky, from left, Natalie Morales, Jennifer Lawrence and Ebon Moss-Bachrach at the premiere of ‘No Hard Feelings’ at AMC Lincoln Square Theater on June 20, 2023 in New York Evan Agostini/Invision/ PA
With Lawrence starring and producing, the film became a coveted commodity, with streaming services and studios vying for the production rights. In the end, the decision was made for Sony and a traditional theatrical release.
Jennifer Lawrence at the premiere of “No Hard Feelings” at the AMC Lincoln Square Theater on Tuesday, June 20, 2023 in New York. Evan Agostini/Invision/AP
In “No Hard Feelings” Lawrence’s character Maddie has money problems.
As an Uber driver without a car, she finds herself in a bind.
So when you see this ad with the promise of a Buick Regal as payment, go ahead.
Maddie first meets 19-year-old Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman) in a pink mini dress and heels, who is acting openly flirtatious and available.
“She’s dressed in what she believes to be a 19-year-old’s idea of a sexual fantasy. And she’s wrong,” Stupnitsky said. “He’s like the only guy she can’t seduce.”
The situation escalates from there as she tries to take him home. He thinks he’s being kidnapped, and as anyone who’s seen a preview of the film knows, she ends up being pepper sprayed. But the film also has a sweet core.