When David O. Russell likes an actor, he keeps him or her close. Before their relationship reportedly fell apart, his go-to star seemed to be Mark Wahlberg, who led Three Kings, I Heart Huckabees and The Fighter for the director. Now it looks as though the director has turned to his starring duo of Silver Linings Playbook.
The multiple Oscar-nominated film will likely pick up a few awards come the end of the month, but O. Russell is already putting the finishing touches on the ensemble for his next film and we’ve now got another addition. Alongside Christian Bale, Amy Adam, Jeremy Renner, Louis C.K. and Bradley Cooper, Deadline reports that Playbook‘s Jennifer Lawrence has joined the ensemble.
Set in the 1970s and following an FBI sting operation, Lawrence has taken the role of Bale’s wife in the project. O. Russell has a knack for finding the perfect combination of actors and this one is shaping up to be his finest line-up yet. Read this synopsis, coming from Eric Warren Singer‘s script, below:
The Untitled David O. Russell Project is based on the true story of a notorious financial con artist (Bale) and his mistress/partner in crime (Adams), who were forced to work with an out of control federal agent (Cooper) to turn the tables on other con artists, mobsters, and politicians. At the epicenter of the entire tale, is the passionate and volatile leader of the New Jersey state assembly (Renner) who is also the local hero and mayor of impoverished Camden.
Expect a late 2013 release for what will likely be another major awards contender for Russell.
Jennifer Lawrence to present at the Oscars
Jennifer is set to present an award at the Oscars on February 24th. Jennifer is also nominated for Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.
EE British Academy Film Awards 2013 – Pictures
Jen attended the EE British Academy Film Awards last sunday, here are pictures:
Gallery Updates: 2013 Events
Jennifer has been busy this year with so many nominations and awards shows. Here are the events from 2013:
Previews:
New Owner, New Layout & Updates
Hello everyone! My name is Annie and I’m the new owner of Jennifer Lawrence Network. I’m currently updating the site and launching a brand new gallery.
We have a new Twitter: @JenLawrenceNetw and a new Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/JenniferLawrenceNetwork
Gallery has been almost fully updated, many older lower quality have been replace with high quality. Many magazines and new photoshoots also. Enjoy!
Jennifer Lawrence: The Nonconformist
n the Monday before Thanksgiving, Jennifer Lawrence was standing nearly naked in a hotel room in Beverly Hills. “I have no modesty left,” she said as she decided what to wear for an appearance on The Ellen DeGeneres Show, followed by a taping of The Tonight Show, and in the evening, the Los Angeles premiere of her latest film, Silver Linings Playbook. She had already been to two photo shoots that day, and on one of them, a hairstylist wove dreadlocks into her long, naturally blonde hair, which had been dyed brown for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, the second installment of the grimly futuristic trilogy.
The first Hunger Games, which came out in 2012, grossed almost $700 million worldwide and made Lawrence, who plays the intrepid teenage warrior Katniss Everdeen, an international star. Between chapters 1 and 2, she filmed Silver Linings, a dark romantic comedy. “I like that my character knows that she’s crazy—and accepts it,” Lawrence told me. “She says, ‘Keep being weird! Just be proud of it.’ ”
Although she’s not remotely cuckoo, Lawrence, 22, is stubbornly, wonderfully true to herself, and that self is not constrained by Hollywood’s usual rules of conformity. For instance, while she is a newly named face of Christian Dior, Lawrence loves to eat and is, as she bluntly puts it, “fat, by Hollywood’s standards.” And even though her fame has escalated rapidly, Lawrence still lives in the modest condo in Santa Monica she moved into in 2006, when she was 16 and playing the rebellious teenage daughter on the TBS series The Bill Engvall Show. Despite an Oscar nomination for 2010’s very serious Winter’s Bone, Lawrence can still quote Dumb and Dumber from beginning to end. She speaks her mind and is not guarded or conventional. When I asked her what superpower she would want to have, Lawrence said, “It would be horrible to read people’s thoughts. I always know when I’m being lied to, and that drives me nuts.”
Perhaps that’s the key to Lawrence’s honesty: She doesn’t want to betray her own need for the truth. “I don’t think I’m particularly brave or bold or different from anyone else,” Lawrence insisted. “I just think this is an easier way to be.” Usually, this outsize a personality is hard to subsume into a role, but Lawrence disappears into her characters. In Silver Linings, she plays a widow who has Goth tendencies, with no shred of the actress’s real-life bounding friendliness. “I am like the movie in one way: I’m superstitious,” she said, slipping into a fitted black and white tweed Dior dress. “Whenever it’s 11:11, I make all of the people around me wish that my boyfriend [the actor Nicholas Hoult] not get killed in a motorbike accident. He just bought a motorbike, and I think my ritual will keep him alive. The other night, at 11:11 p.m., I told an entire bar to say, ‘Nick will not die in a motorbike accident.’ And they did it.” I asked her if she repeated this ritual at 11:11 a.m. too. “I don’t wake up for it!” Lawrence exclaimed. “God, I hardly ever wake up before 11. I’m an artist! I need at least 18 hours a night, with catnaps.” Lawrence laughed and picked up her bag to leave for Ellen. “I’m not that crazy,” she said, half-joking. “But I am an artist.”
Some actors wilt under the pressures of Oscar season, a months-long slog that forces them to give daily interviews about the same movie over and over again. Fortunately, Jennifer Lawrence is not one of them. The Silver Linings Playbook actress and Best Actress front-runner has been hitting the social circuit hard over the past week (perhaps she’s making up for lost time, since an overlong X-Men: First Class shoot prevented Lawrence from doing much press in 2011 for her Winter’s Bone nomination), and whether she’s promoting Silver Linings on Conan, attending the annual Oscar nominees luncheon, or receiving an award at the Santa Barbara Film Festival, she’s dropping quotable bon mots right and left. Here are eight things we’ve learned about Lawrence over the past week:
She’s obsessed with Conan O’Brien:
“I’ve been watching the show for fifteen years, and I’m 22 years old,” Lawrence said to the talk-show host at the top of her Conan appearance. “I’m such a [fan]. Oh my God. The producer said to me, ‘Andy Richter’s going to hug you,’ and I started tearing up. You coming in [to my dressing room] put me at a 10, emotionally, and then her telling me that put me at a 15, and I couldn’t handle it.”She loves John Stamos:
“He was at a party, and I turned into a perverted guy,” Lawrence told O’Brien. “I was following him into rooms and staring at his ass. I lost my mind. And I got so upset — I didn’t want to meet him, because when I meet people, it’s never good, and I was avoiding him — but then my friends brought him over because my friends are jerks, and I started really freaking out, and he asked me if I was on mushrooms, and I said, ‘No, I’m dead sober. This is just me.'”She had a short-lived Abercrombie & Fitch modeling career in her teens:
“There’s this one picture where this girl’s just about to catch this football,” Lawrence said to O’Brien, “and behind her, I’m, like, flared nostrils, red face, my hair’s crazy and I’m midair, RAAAHH! … I thought that overnight I had just gotten really good at football, then I realized they were model footballing, and I was really playing football.”She’s going for a high-fashion moment at the Oscars this year:
“I’m going to wear sweatpants,” Lawrence initially joked at the Oscar nominees luncheon, before adding, “Last time, [I dressed for] comfort. This year, I’m like, ‘Suck it up, wear a corset.’ I am going to go for fashion this time.” Is it difficult to pick an Oscar dress after months of wearing pretty frocks to premieres and awards shows? “That’s the problem with the Oscars: They’re always at the end where you are just exhausted from dressing up, so I never care,” said Lawrence. “Now, I will. Fashion.”Spanx is her friend:
“Eating normally calms me down,” continued Lawrence at the Oscar luncheon. “I remember, before the [2011] Oscars, I was wearing that skintight dress, and I ate a Philly cheesesteak and fries. I was like, ‘This is definitely going to help,’ which it didn’t, ’cause I had to double Spanx it.”The highlight of the Oscar luncheon was …
” … Sally Field asking me to carpool to some cocktail party,” said Lawrence. “And I just invited Jacki Weaver, and I’m trying to get [Naomi] Watts. Carpooling with Sally Field. Make my dreams come true.” J-Law added that all the actresses should rent a van together for awards-circuit purposes. “And all of us just unload: [Anne] Hathaway, Watts, [Jessica] Chastain, me! Like a clown car. It’ll be a lot more fun that way, and more intense.”She doesn’t do a whole lot of preparation for her roles:
“I never actually read my lines until I show up,” Lawrence confessed at the Santa Barbara Film Festival. “It started out as a lazy thing. And then my friend was over, and she was like, ‘What scene are you doing tomorrow?’ and I was like, ‘I don’t know. Is that bad? Is there a point in my career where I should start learning my lines for work?’ And she was like, ‘Well, if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.’ So, that’s that. I don’t have a way of doing anything, so I like to just mold to whatever the director likes. And I find that a lot easier to do when I don’t already have something set in my mind and I can just show up.”What kind of movie would Lawrence like to direct, when the time comes?
“It would be like Step Brothers,” Lawrence told the SBIFF audience. “I’m serious! I saw Step Brothers and I was like, ‘Why didn’t I direct that?'”
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Photos)
I have added pictures of Jennifer in The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. She looks stunning
x 026 – Taping – The Tonight Show with Jay Leno (Nov 19, 2012)
“Silver Linings Playbook” SAG Screening (Photos)
Hey! Jennifer attended the “Silver Linings Playbook” SAG Screening yesterday in Los Angeles. I’ve added over 60 pics of this event to the gallery. Enjoy!
x 063 – “Silver Linings Playbook” SAG Screening (Nov 18, 2012)
At Lax Airport (Nov 18, 2012)
I’ve added some new candids of Jennifer at the LAX Airport yesterday . She looks great!
x 031 – At Lax Airport (Nov 18)
Jennifer Lawrence, Woody Harrelson and Elizabeth Banks take time out from filming “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” to visit the Georgia Aquarium. I have added 1 picture of Jen in our gallery :
Jennifer attended the Silver Linings Playbook Screening yesterday in NY. I have added 93 pictures of this event to the gallery :
x 093 – “Silver Linings Playbook” New York Screening – Nov 11, 2012
Jennifer was spotted on the set of her film : The Hunger Games – Catching Fire, in Atlanta yesterday . I’ve added 9 HQS to our gallery :
Jennifer Lawrence named Dior’s new muse
VOGUE cover girl Jennifer Lawrence is the new face of Christian Dior. The Hunger Games actress has been hired to front the label’s Miss Dior handbag campaign, to be unveiled in magazines early spring next year, WWD reports.
The collaboration marks the first time the 22 year old has worked with a luxury fashion house, although she attended Raf Simons’ Dior couture debut in July earlier this year.
“Like everyone else, I first discovered Jennifer Lawrence in the roles she played in action movies,” said Dior creative director Raf Simons. “I was, of course, struck by her incredible on-screen presence in these blockbuster films, but also impressed by her powerful interpretations of subtler more rounded characters. Her youth and her classic beauty, but also her force of character and the complexity she’s capable of embodying at such a young age, are, for me, both unique and very moving.”
Previous Dior ambassadors have included Marion Cotillard, Mila Kunis, Natalie Portman and Charlize Theron.
“I’m very excited at the idea of working with Dior and wearing Raf Simons’ new creations,” said Lawrence. “His debut ready-to-wear and haute couture have distilled all the glamour of Dior into the modern era.”
New (old) photoshoot from 2011
Hello Guys! I have added some new outtakes (untagged) of Jennifer for Flare Magazine . She looks stunning as usual .
