Long before Jennifer Lawrence became an Oscar winner, she was an aspiring actress beginning to lay the groundwork for a Hollywood career.
02.11.2022 - 22:13 / usmagazine.com
Runaway bride? Jennifer Lawrence confessed she felt uncertain about marrying Cooke Maroney before their 2019 wedding.
“When you don’t fully know yourself, you have no idea where to put yourself,” the Hunger Games actress, 32, told The New York Times in an interview published on Wednesday, November 2, explaining how she related to her character in her movie Causeway. “And then I met my husband, and he was like, ‘Put yourself here.’ I was like, ‘That feels right, but what if it’s not?'”
Lawrence admitted she wasn’t “conscious of” her relationship fears while she was filming Causeway in 2019. “When I’m home with my husband making this family, I’m so happy I stayed,” she gushed. “I’m so happy I didn’t freak out and cancel the wedding and run away and go, ‘I’ll never be taken down!'”
The Oscar winner and Maroney started dating in 2018 after being introduced by a mutual friend. Us Weekly confirmed one year later that the duo were engaged.
“He’s the greatest human being I’ve ever met. He really is, and he gets better,” the Silver Linings Playbook star raved during a June 2019 episode of “Naked with Catt Sadler,” adding that she initially wanted to take things slow with the art gallerist. “I don’t know, I started with the basics, you know, ‘How do I feel? Is he nice? Is he kind?’ … It’s just this is The One, I know that sounds really stupid but … We wanted to marry each other, we wanted to commit fully and he’s my best friend and so I want to legally bind him to me forever.”
Four months later, Us confirmed that the twosome exchanged vows in an intimate Rhode Island ceremony. News broke in September 2021 that Lawrence was pregnant with the pair’s first child, and she remained relatively private about her motherhood journey before
Long before Jennifer Lawrence became an Oscar winner, she was an aspiring actress beginning to lay the groundwork for a Hollywood career.
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.
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.
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.
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.
As “Causeway” hits Apple TV+ tomorrow, Jennifer Lawrence has made the press rounds to promote the film that many call her Hollywood comeback. Granted, that’s just a narrative to help with the film’s release.
Jennifer Lawrence saw Amanda Seyfried portray Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the Hulu limited series, The Dropout.
! Queen of taking breaks! Queen of quality over quantity! It's a lesson Jennifer Lawrence has learned, but not before making a movie that even she agrees is a bit of a stinker. And her friend warned her not to do it.Speaking to the New York Times about her career's ups and downs, the Oscar winner revealed that prior to making —I'll get to the plot in a sec—the singer tried to discourage her from taking the project. "She was like, 'I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies,' " Lawrence said, per .
Jennifer Lawrence is back. After stepping away for a while and seemingly taking a breath as her career went supernova, the actress has now returned with a renewed sense of purpose and intention.