Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jennifer Lawrence may be an Oscar-winning actor, but she hasn’t let all that fame and fortune go to her head. “You immediately forget she’s a movie star when you meet her,” says Laura Benanti, who appears opposite Lawrence in the new R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings.” “She’s so down to earth.” Lawrence stars in “No Hard Feelings” as an Uber driver who agrees to date a wealthy couple’s (Benanti and Matthew Broderick) socially awkward 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) in exchange for a car. “Sure, at first I was nervous because it’s like, ‘How are you so beautiful?’” Benanti said of Lawrence. “But then I was immediately laughing with her. She’s so funny, silly and a hard worker. She’s not a princess. She is comfortable being uncomfortable.”
Jennifer Lawrence was keen to 'push the envelope' with No Hard Feelings
17.06.2023 - 08:57 / msn.com
Jennifer Lawrence was attracted to her new film No Hard Feelings because it pushes the envelope. While speaking with Entertainment Tonight, the 32-year-old actress discussed Gene Stupnitsky's latest comedy, in which she plays Maddie, who agrees to become a nerdy 19-year-old's girlfriend in exchange for a car. The Hunger Games star stated that a big reason for choosing the film was being able to "push the envelope" in terms of risky comedy.
"I mean, I think it is as funny as it is because it's really pushing the envelope, and really inappropriate and raunchy. I've known Gene for years, and he's the funniest person I've ever met in my life. So, when I read it, I mean, I was dying.
And when you're on set, making something like this, you're like, it's hilarious," she told the outlet. During the film, both Jennifer and her younger co-star Andrew Barth Feldman strip off, but neither of them thought of the nudity as "a big deal". "The two of us were still able to like make light of it and like, joke around about what a kind of ridiculous situation that we were in," Andrew explained.
"But it's just so funny, and much like all the comedy in the movie, it never feels gratuitous. It always feels like it's there for a reason. And these characters have actually been led to these moments.
And so there was never a second-guessing game. "The film, also starring Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti, will premiere in cinemas on 23 June.
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‘No Hard Feelings’ cast slams film’s backlash: ‘It’s a cautionary tale’
full-frontal nudity.The premise revolves around 32-year-old Maddie (Lawrence), who is hired by 19-year-old Percy’s (Andrew Barth Feldman) parents to date him. The stars of the flick clapped back at the recent backlash to the movie’s plot and rated-R raunchiness.Percy’s overprotective (and wealthy) parents are played by Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick.“It’s a cautionary tale,” Benanti, 43, explained to the Hollywood Reporter about the hate.“If you are a helicopter parent who puts your child in such a bubble, they do not know how to exist outside of that bubble, you are going to make the exact opposite and insane choice, which is what they are doing here.“I feel like it is a very satirical look at what can happen if you do not give your children a longer leash to figure things out for themselves,” the “Nashville” star continued.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains descriptions of specific scenes in “No Hard Feelings,” in theaters now. In “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a 32-year-old Uber driver in the Hamptons whose car has been repossessed because she failed to pay her property taxes. She ends up answering a Craigslist ad posted by a wealthy couple (Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick), offering a car in return for a woman to date their socially awkward 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) to prepare him for college life. The movie is a raunchy R-rated comedy that sees Lawrence’s character, Maddie, fully naked on a beach.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director In the upcoming comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a down-on-her-luck Uber driver who accepts a job trying to seduce a 19-year-old whose helicopter parents don’t want him heading off to college as a virgin. The task of playing the Oscar winner’s male lead in a raunchy R-rated comedy fell to Andrew Barth Feldman, best known until now for his stint on Broadway in “Dear Evan Hanson.” Feldman was already a student at Harvard University when the offer to join Lawrence in “No Hard Feelings” was made. “I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, ‘That’s our — that’s Percy,”” Lawrence recently told Entertainment Tonight. “Then they were like there’s one complication, he’s supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, ‘Is that a joke?’ He was fully the character, so I called him and said, ‘Andrew, I have really bad news you’re not gonna be able to finish your semester at Harvard.’ He’s gonna have to defer, or whatever college school words are.”
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