2013 Dec 09

Life’s a ‘Hustle’ for Jennifer Lawrence

The Oscar winner is earning raves again for playing a demented housewife.

EW YORK — Work can be your salvation, your port in a mad, mad celebrity storm. Just ask Jennifer Lawrence, who finds solace and consistency on movie sets, surrounded by people who don’t care about her latest sultry Dior ads, or whether her new haircut is too extreme.

“Nobody treats you any differently. They see celebrities all the time. Especially on The Hunger Games, people have known each other for years. I feel like myself,” she says.

Her first day back on set, one day after winning an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence earned a standing ovation from her Hunger Games: Catching Fire cast and crew.

“And then, nothing changed. We shot two more weeks in the mud. When she messes up her lines, she gets teased by Woody (Harrelson) that she’s going to have to give her award back,” says Fire director Francis Lawrence (no relation). “She’s smart and goofy and silly and talented and endearing. It’s all of those things. There isn’t an actress around like her right now. She has an intuitive talent for acting, but also a soul and gravitas that most girls her age don’t have. She captures the loneliness of Katniss.”

And the blowsy appeal of Rosalyn Rosenfeld, the lonely, yet certifiable housewife she plays in American Hustle. When filmmaker David O. Russell, who directed Lawrence to her Oscar for playing a disturbed, acid-tongued, yet vulnerable widow in Silver Linings, called her about Hustle, she had planned to take a break. But the script, about a ’70s scammer (Christian Bale), his pushy spouse (Lawrence), his manipulative mistress (Amy Adams) and the memorably coiffed, deeply ambitious FBI agent trying to get a career break (Bradley Cooper), proved irresistible.

“(Rosalyn’s) always screaming and drinking and you don’t know why. The first step was making her young, making her religious and making her someone I could forgive. She’s dumb as a fox. She doesn’t know any better. She doesn’t understand the repercussions of her actions,” says Lawrence. “She chooses when to be blind to something and I know women like that. You know those women who find themselves in very dramatic situations and don’t understand why.”

And for Russell, seeing Lawrence embody someone so comically, almost defiantly, deviant was a revelation.

“We’ve never seen her do a character like this. It was alive and freeing and fun, and she brought amazing energy to it. Her peculiar madness is her genius,” Russell says. “Jennifer and I share a process on the set where we laugh and we stay loose. But when she goes in, it’s on. It’s deceptive to everyone around. She looks like she’s goofing around and not paying attention. But she goes there. Magic happens.”
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2013 Dec 09

Jennifer Lawrence hungers for normalcy

Franchises and awards aside, the 23-year-old actress craves a life away from the red carpet.

NEW YORK — Behind the clever banter and disarming repartee, beyond the glamorous red-carpet Dior gowns, in a private dining room on the second floor of a downtown hotel, her loafer-clad feet kicked up behind her, sits the real Jennifer Lawrence.

And all this actress wants, right now, is a Corona. Or an Amstel Light. But the only brews available are of the artisanal variety, so Lawrence looks flummoxed. “I’m a Budweiser person. So I don’t really understand,” she says, as the waitress goes to great lengths to explain the intricate differences between the pale ales on offer.

Away from the awards-season hubbub, which again envelopes her for her role as a foxy yet foolish wife in American Hustle, Lawrence is a self-aware woman trying to have some version of a regular existence. “I’ve built my career. I need to build my human life. I need to get a house and connect to the people around me and not work for a little while,” she says.

Topping her to-do list: buying a home when she wraps the two-part Hunger Games franchise finale, Mockingjay, which shoots until June.

But for now, she does her best to retain some sense of routine in an existence that’s mostly lived in hotels, fueled by room service. Her on-again boyfriend, Nicholas Hoult, helps keep her sane, away from prying eyes. “We’re really good at it,” she says of maintaining their under-the-radar romance.

She’s infatuated with her two young nephews, whom she FaceTimes every night. She decompresses by watching reality TV, in particular Keeping Up with the Kardashians. And she keeps her best-actress Oscar, won for last year’s Silver Linings Playbook, at her mom’s house to avoid any weirdness when friends come over, to try to nip in the bud the possibility of people standing at attention around her.

“I just get allergic to that kind of thing. People treating you differently when you don’t feel any differently is really alienating. You can see, the way they look at you. I can see if that was who I surrounded myself with, that’s why you change,” she says. “I find people who don’t change. That’s where I get my reality.”

And her ability to say exactly the right thing at the right time? It’s a gift. “She’s an amazing study of people. She really understands the teeniest differences in people. She can read people in a second,” says The Hunger Games: Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence. “She can figure you out in an instant. She does it with such ease, from the gut.”

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2013 Dec 08

Palm Springs Film Fest: ‘American Hustle’ to Receive Ensemble Performance Award

The film’s star-studded cast includes Oscar winners Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar nominees Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner.

The star-studded cast of David O. Russell’s dramedy American Hustle — which includes Oscar winners Christian Bale and Jennifer Lawrence and Oscar nominees Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner — will receive the Ensemble Performance Award at the Palm Springs International Film Festival, it was announced Friday.

The award will be presented on Jan. 4 at the Palm Springs Convention Center as part of the festival’s 25th edition, which runs from Jan. 3-13.

“Russell has created a viscerally powerful film,” said festival chairman Harold Matzner. “American Hustle grabs you from the start and is populated by a group of eminently believable characters as brought to life by this brilliant cast. The Palm Springs International Film Festival is proud to present the entire cast of American Hustle with our 2014 Ensemble Performance Award.”
Past recipients of the award include last year’s eventual best picture Oscar winner Argo, as well as Babel (2006) and The Social Network (2012) before that.

The fest previously announced that it will honor 12 Years a Slave’s helmer Steve McQueen with its Director of the Year Award; Dallas Buyers Club’s Matthew McConaughey with its Desert Palm Award, Actor; Gravity’s Sandra Bullock with its Desert Palm Award, Actress; August: Osage County’s supporting actress Julia Roberts with its Spotlight Award; and Nebraska’s Bruce Dern with its Career Achievement Award. Additional announcements are expected shortly.

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2013 Dec 08

American Hustle New York Photocall

Jennifer attended a Press Conference and Photocall earlier today in New York to promote American Hustle, here are pictures, thanks to Luciana from AmyAdamsFan.com:


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2013 Dec 08

The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences – American Hustle Screening Pictures

Jennifer attended a screening of American Hustle for the members of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts And Sciences, here are pictures:

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2013 Dec 06

Gallery Updates: Magazines

Good evening, everyone! I’m updating the gallery with some older magazines. Credits go Lilly, Luciana, Holly, Claudia, FSR and Marica:


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2013 Dec 05

Jennifer covers January 2014 Australian Marie Claire

Jennifer is on the cover of the January 2014 issue of Australian Marie Claire.

2013 Dec 05

Two New American Hustle Stills

Hey everyone, yet 2 more American Hustle stills are up!

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2013 Dec 04

2 new American Hustle Stills and Behind Scenes Photos

2 new stills from American Hustle are up in the gallery (thanks jenlawfans.blogspot.com), and 2 new Behind Scenes photos.

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2013 Dec 04

W Magazine December Scan

Jennifer is feature on a behind scenes of American Hustle feature on the December 2013 issue of W magazine, scan via FSR

2013 Dec 04

Jennifer Lawrence on David Letterman skit Ken Burns’ “The Statement” by Rob Ford (Video)

This is from last week and I missed posting it.

2013 Dec 03

Jennifer wins Best Supporting Actress at NY Film Critics Awards

Jennifer Lawrence has won the Best Supporting Actress Awards for her role in American Hustle at the 2013 New York Film Critics Awards.

American Hustle has also won the award for Best Picture and Screenplay!

Congratulations!

2013 Dec 03

Jennifer nominated for Best Supporting Actress for Satellite Awards

Jennifer Lawrence has been nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Award for her role in American Hustle. The movie is not even out out yet and it’s already scoring nominations!

Co-stars Amy Adams, Christian Bale and Bradley Copper have also been nominated for Best Actress, Best Actor and Best Support Actors, respectively.

American Hustle has also been nominated for Best Movie, while David O. Russell has been nominated for Best Director and Original Screenplay.

The awards are set to be presented on March 9th, 2014.

2013 Dec 03

Jennifer Lawrence is one of Barbara Walter’s Most Fascinating People Of 2013

Jennifer Lawrence has been chosen as one of 2013 Most Fascinating People by Barbara Walters.

The interview airs on December 18th, 2013.

2013 Nov 30

Box Office: ‘Catching Fire’ Surges Friday for $482.3 Million Global Total

The “Hunger Games” sequel and animated family film “Frozen” — coming in No. 2 — are turning in the best Thanksgiving performances of all time.

Holiday moviegoers remained ravenous for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Friday, putting the sequel on course to score one of the best second weekends in the history of the film business, not accounting for inflation.

The Lionsgate pic grossed $31.3 million from 4,163 theaters for a domestic total of $253.3 million and stunning global haul of $482.3 million. If traffic holds at these levels, Catching Fire is poised to gross $110 million-plus for the five-day Thanksgiving stretch (Wednesday-Sunday) and $75 million-plus for the weekend itself in North America.

Costing $130 million to produce, Catching Fire could edge out Avatar ($75.6 million) and The Dark Knight ($75.2 million) to boast the top second weekend (three-day) on record after The Avengers ($103.1 million).

Disney’s 3D animated entry Frozen, opening Wednesday, also continued to soar, grossing $26.9 million from 3,742 locations for a three-day domestic total of $53.5 million and projected five-day debut in the $93 million range.

Loosely based on Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairy tale The Snow Queen, Frozen — earning a coveted A+ CinemaScore — tells the story of a fearless princess (Kristen Bell) who sets off on an epic journey to find her sister, whose icy powers have caused an eternal winter. Last weekend, the 3D pic, costing $150 million to make, did big business when it played exclusively at Disney’s El Capitan Theatre in Hollywood.

Between them, Frozen and Catching Fire are serving up a record-breaking Thanksgiving. Frozen is poised to score the top holiday debut of all time, eclipsing the $80.1 million five-day debut of Pixar’s Toy Story 2 in 1999. It’s also destined to score the top opening for a Disney Animation Studios title, besting the $68.7 million debut of Tangled over Thanksgiving in 2010.

Catching Fire, now in its second weekend, will mark the top-grossing Thanksgiving film of any movie, topping previous record-holder Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone ($82.4 million). It also nabbed the best gross ever for Thanksgiving day — $14.9 million from 4,163 theaters — besting the $13.1 million earned by Toy Story 2.

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