Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles welcomed a record 29 of the year’s buzziest movies from 14 studios and streamers live on stage Saturday at the DGA Theater. A crowd of key Academy and key guild voters took in the all-day affair, hearing from the stars and creatives behind the movies that are making noise this awards season. Now you can hear from them too.
‘Causeway’ Producer Justine Ciarrocchi On Why Jennifer Lawrence Sparked To Film’s War Veteran Lead – Contenders New York
05.11.2022 - 20:05 / deadline.com
Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver producing partner Justine Ciarrocchi said the Oscar-winning actress was “itching to do something small and intimate” after years of doing bigger studio movies when she signed on to make Lila Neugebauer’s Causeway.
“We were submitted the original draft of the [Causeway] script towards the end of Jen’s (three- year) acting hiatus,” said Ciarrocchi, who appeared via Zoom for a panel at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: New York award-season event. “So much of what we were reading at the time was super traditionally structured and predictable, and sort of checking all the right boxes. We were reading scripts that just didn’t feel particularly inspiring or relatable, but when we got this piece, it was the opposite of all of that. [Causeway] was a true character piece. We could feel the mood on the page. So, we reacted right away.”
In the A24 and Apple Original Films feature, Lawrence plays Lynsey, an Afghanistan war vet who is suffering from body and brain injuries. She forms an unlikely friendship with a mechanic named James (Brian Tyree Henry).
Causeway, which is Excellent Cadaver’s first project, also appealed to Lawrence on a personal level, Ciarrocchi said.
“Jen lives a glorious but strange life as most public figures do,” the producer said. “I think she’s always grappled with the idea of wondering where she belongs and where home is and has experienced, like all of us, isolation. She identified with Lynsey immediately.”
The film, which was filmed in New Orleans, was named after the city’s Causeway Bridge. “New Orleans is a central character in the film,” said Ciarrocchi. “It’s such a singular American city. The culture is resilient and vivacious and deeply soulful, and the people of
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20.11.2022 / 07:47
Jennifer Lawrence Learns But Doesn’t Believe ‘Yellowstone’ Creator Taylor Sheridan Was One Of Her Early Acting Coaches
Long before Jennifer Lawrence became an Oscar winner, she was an aspiring actress beginning to lay the groundwork for a Hollywood career.
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20.11.2022 / 04:33
Jennifer Lawrence, Brian Tyree Henry & ‘Causeway’ Filmmakers On Overcoming The Elements And The Pandemic During Production – Contenders L.A.
For Jennifer Lawrence, preparing to play a wounded veteran in Causeway took time and intense preparation. Part of that preparation included meeting with real veterans to form her character.
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16.11.2022 / 19:11
‘Causeway’: Lila Neugebauer Talks Jennifer Lawrence’s “Intuitive” Power, Losing Flashbacks & Living in “Present Tense” [Interview]
When Lila Neugebauer was first handed the original script for “Causeway,” the acclaimed New York theater director responded instantly to its intimate, psychological portrait of a military veteran struggling to readjust to life in New Orleans after returning home from Afghanistan with a traumatic brain injury. “It was a very personal work, and that script was characterized by a deeply felt lyricism and patience,” says Neugebauer, of the story that would become her feature debut.
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05.11.2022 / 23:29
‘The Good Nurse’ Director Tobias Lindholm And Producer Scott Franklin On Having Two Oscar Winners On Their Ward – Contenders New York
The Good Nurse director Tobias Lindholm and producer Scott Franklin joined Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York awards-season event to talk about their Netflix pic and especially the film’s two Oscar-winning stars: Jessica Chastain and Eddie Redmayne.
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05.11.2022 / 23:29
Noah Baumbach On Turning Don DeLillo’s Daunting Novel ‘White Noise’ Into Disaster Movie With An Inner Life – Contenders New York
In the depths of the Covid pandemic, stuck at home in an emptied-out New York City, filmmaker Noah Baumbach figured he and his life partner and creative collaborator Greta Gerwig had two choices for their next project.
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05.11.2022 / 23:29
Contenders New York Arrivals Gallery: Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Danielle Deadwyler, S. S. Rajamouli, Zoe Kazan & More
The stars and creatives of several buzzy films turned out November 5 for Contenders Film: New York, Deadline’s annual daylong awards-season kickoff event. Click through a photo gallery of arrivals above.
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05.11.2022 / 21:59
Zoe Kazan Describes Synching With Her Real-Life Character In ‘She Said’ – Contenders New York
Zoe Kazan recalls her research for playing New York Times journalist Jodi Kantor in the film She Said taking on a “mimetic quality” as the real-life similarities accumulated.
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05.11.2022 / 21:59
‘Nostalgia’ Duo Mario Martone And Ippolita Di Majo Peel Back Layers Of Italy’s Oscar Entry – Contenders New York
Italian director Mario Martone said that his latest film Nostalgia is very similar to his 1995 film L’amore molesto (Troubling Love).During a panel discussion at Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event, Martone explained the connection between adapting Elena Ferrante’s first novel L’amore molesto and Ermanno Rea’s book Nostalgia for the big screen. “In L’amore molesto we followed this woman,” Martone said. “We walk alongside her, and we enter into her past.
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05.11.2022 / 20:47
‘Braveheart’ Was “A Big Influence” For Indian Epic ‘RRR’, Director S.S. Rajamouli Says – Contenders New York
RRR filmmaker S.S. Rajamouli made his epic for an Indian audience, but he has been gobsmacked by the global resonance of the film, which has racked up more than $132 million worldwide while ranking as India’s third highest-grossing movie of all time. RRR has made more than $11M in the U.S. sinceopening to a huge $9.5M in March at 1,200 theaters via Variance Films.
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05.11.2022 / 20:47
Reginald Hudlin Says Hardest Part Of Making ‘Sidney’ Was “Mourning” Every Sidney Poitier Story He Couldn’t Fit In – Contenders New York
The challenge in making Sidney — about the pioneering Black actor, filmmaker and activist Sidney Poitier — was knowing where to stop, director Reginald Hudlin said during an appearance for Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event at The Times Center in Manhattan.
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05.11.2022 / 19:43
‘Till’ Stars Danielle Deadwyler And John Douglas Thompson, Director Chinonye Chukwu On Creating Film Set “Rooted In Community Care” – Contenders New York
Till stars Danielle Deadwyler and John Douglas Thompson and director Chinonye Chukwu kicked off Deadline’s Contenders Film: New York event with a discussion about the atmosphere they sought to cultivate on the film’s set.
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03.11.2022 / 19:13
New ‘Causeway’ Trailer: Jennifer Lawrence’s PTSD Soldier Drama Hits Apple TV+ Tomorrow On November 4
After its world premiere at TIFF in September, critics praised “Causeway” as a momentous return for actress Jennifer Lawrence. But did Lawrence ever really leave the limelight? Sure, she took a year or so off from acting after her engagement, but that lined up with when COVID-19 effectively shut down the movie business.