What a great role for Jennifer Lawrence in David O. Russell’s American Hustle. She’s such a sassy broad, always prettified and tamed for most films. How great to see her unhinged:
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What a great role for Jennifer Lawrence in David O. Russell’s American Hustle. She’s such a sassy broad, always prettified and tamed for most films. How great to see her unhinged:
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“Still, the prospect of J-Law getting in on the Oscar race yet again, this time in a supporting part, is what’s getting the bulk of the attention. “She is simply dazzling as Bale’s wife, a total knockout scene-stealer throughout,” Hammond wrote. “If she hadn’t already won last year as Best Actress for Russell’s Silver Linings Playbook, there is no doubt she might be unbeatable here.” Even still, Hammond contends she might be a front-runner anyway, which goes along with what Tom O’Neill at Gold Derby noted: “She could easily pull off an Oscars heist next and do what no other star has ever done: win in a supporting race one year after prevailing in lead.” Steve Pond at The Wrap added: “If there was any kind of unanimous verdict, it was that Jennifer Lawrence steals the show.”
Case in point.
It’s ok if you think the Fighter and SLP are bad movies or if you think she’s not a good actress. Just like it’s ok to have crappy taste in movies and not know what you’re talking about.
I love how everyone critiquing Lawrence in the comments follows up with “I haven’t seen the movie” …yea clearly! She steals the show and is AMAZING in this movie and that’s the general consensus among everyone I know who’s seen it and all the critical reviews I read.
Do yourselves a favor and watch the movie before you reach conclusions, she (and really the whole cast) just dominate their roles
She seems like a fish out of water here, IMO. She’s not at all convincing. She won’t get another nomination for a while.
Comparing Jennifer Lawrence to Meryl Streep & Katherine Hepburn… and saying Lawrence is superior. Wow, JLaw bots are really insufferable.
I wish they were really married. Then they could have magical acting babies who would play all the parts in all the future movies and then the planets would align and peace forever. *sigh*
Bale looks great in this clip – and he didn’t even have to talk much.
“All the characters in every David O Russell movie lose their tempers. All of them always. It’s nonstop yelling.” – AMEN!
I have seen 3 of his films, and by 3 I mean I started 4 and stopped two half way through. So 2 films (Three Kings, and The Fighter) and 2 halves (I Heart Huckabees and SLP). I liked Three Kings. Don’t remember IHH other than I didn’t finish it. Hated The Fighter and the first half of SLP. With the last two, I kept saying to myself these are people I don’t ever want to be around let alone follow their story of perpetual arguing.
Going into SLP I adored JLaw. Now, meh. That film was so bad that I got turned off to her. Hunger Games next week will rectify that.
Oof. I’m not sure she should have went for the accent since she couldn’t sustain it through a scene. She should have just used a lower register and went with that.
Plus, this spunkiness is a redux of her Oscar winning role.
I hope she does well and continues to get better and I hope this scene isn’t indicative of the entire movie.
In my opinion Charlize and Kidman are way more than “Miss Right Now.” Kidman has spent her career as an auteur’s darling and couldn’t care less about establishing herself as someone with a franchise. We’ll see if, in 20 years, Lawrence has taken on the type of projects that equal Kidman’s daring or if she has directors equal to Werner Herzog, Chan-Wook Park or Philip Kaufman interested in working with her at 45. As for Charlize, she gave one of the greatest Best Actress-winning performances of the last 20 or so years, grabbing pretty much every award in sight. I haven’t heard many people say that she didn’t deserve it or doubt her talent. Lawrence’s performance was fun, but she had plenty of detractors.
Agreed with you 100% Richard B. I like J.Law as much as the next guy but she seems like she bit off more than she could chew with this one. The accent is painfully slipping in and out. She seems very amateurish in this clip. Will be hard to hold her own against pros like Bale and Adams.
I love J-Law, but I don’t see any scene stealing here. That accent slips through every other moment and that wig is awful.
AMPAS might feel that they want to show that they were right last time (by giving it to her instead of Riva) and nominate her again.
They do that a lot. They like justifying old wins by nominating those winners again, lest they wind up with another Mira Sorvino.
He only detracted minimally from the insightful comments by Steve McQueen, Alfonso Quaron et al.
Not to make an unfair comparison, but Audrey Hepburn also repeated in 1954 after winning in 1953. And like that Miss Hepburn, Miss Lawrence is Miss Right Now. The interesting thing is that she has enough personality, likability, acting chops, and castability to be Miss Right Now for a Couple Years, unlike, say, Gwyneth or even Halle, Charlize, Kidman, etc. But that’s no surprise since she has what none of those women have ever had, which is a prolific franchise.
So who else repeated, now that I’ve opened the can of worms?
Julie Andrews – 1965 (probably the strongest contender for a repeat win except for the only two actual repeaters)
Ingrid Bergman – 1945
Greer Garson – 1943 (note: she won in 1942 and was nominated again, always in Lead, in 1943, 1944, and 1945!)
Bette Davis – 1939 (this following her second win in Lead; cf. Meryl; note: she won in 1938 and was nominated again, always in Lead, in 1939, 1940, 1941, and 1942!)
Luise Rainer – 1937 (repeat winner)
Marie Dressler – 1931/32
Norma Shearer – 1930/31, yes, she had her moment, propelled by studio connections
It’s interesting that, other than Audrey Hepburn, really (and she WAS talented), most of the repeat nominees were not simply Miss Right Now, but likable enough actresses who were crosses between character actors and leading lady types. I’d wager Jennifer Lawrence is versatile enough to meet a similar description.
You’re right. Let’s just talk shit about Stiller, that’s what the interview is all about, right?
Koleś, Okay, I’ll talk about it. Who let Ben Stiller into that room? Shouldn’t he be parking the cars? And I liked “Cable Guy”, but really now…
How come nobody is talking about this – http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=12NgGhFPiik
Thanks Koleś
Times have changed. NOW you need to be very young when you start your film career, it seems. That… if you’re a woman. Back then you had no problem starting out in the theater first.
Natalie Portman was already a veteran actress when she won.
Katherine Hepburn and Meryl Streep had 0 nominations by the age of 25. Jen has 1 win and 2 nominations, and we’re all musing about her possible 3rd. I guess she’s doing okay.
AMPAS might feel that they want to show that they were right last time (by giving it to her instead of Riva) and nominate her again. Maybe she’ll get nominated for “that other film” as long as they make those Hunger Games films.
Still, I’m not adding her up for my predictions yet.
Zach, I’ll go back further. How about Norma Shearer in 1931/32.
The field seems weak enough and this performance has seemed scene-stealing ever since the trailer. Plus she gets to do an accent. So she’s probably in, and I wouldn’t count out anyone from that stellar cast.
Interesting note: if Jennifer Lawrence is nominated this year, she’ll be the first Best Lead Actress winner to earn a nomination the following year (Lead or Supporting) since Emma Thompson in 1993 (double hitter!). Before Emma, it was Meryl in 1983, naturally. Before her, Jane Fonda in 1979, and before that, Katharine Hepburn in 1968 (two consecutive wins). And that’s as far back as I want to go.
My goodness, she is such a TERRIBLE actress, at least in this scene. Oscar spoke way too soon for her. Not so great when its obvious you are faking an accent when you go back and forth with your regular voice and this purported accent.
Ryan Adams, True. I don’t thing anything in Jennifer’s presence is “dangling”. Perhaps, once her “Hunger Games” duties are fulfilled, she will really turn up the heat. Stay tuned…
Serena director Susanne Bier’s (whose ‘In a Better World’ won the Best Foreign Language Oscar a few years ago) new project was announced a few weeks ago and there was a crucial hidden tidbit about Serena in it : apparently it is planned to get a US release in April, 2014, which would make it a prime candidate for a Berlinale slot.
Loved the source material so I hope it will turn out to be a great film, but all these delays and nonexistent buzz, not to mention the fact Darren Aronofsky AND Angelina Jolie left the project, suggests there may have been script problems or something. We’ll see!
I love JLaw like the next guy doesn’t.
Please no. Not yet.
Paddy Mulholland, thanks for the “Serena” update. One wonders why the film hasn’t gotten into major festivals. Certainly Jennifer and Bradley’s names could make this film bankable, unless it is just a very poor movie. One wonders.
Serena is currently, tentatively, scheduled for a rollout across some (though only some) European territories in the new year. A Berlin screening could be a possibility. But all signs are that it’s gonna get buried. The Jennifer Lawrence / Bradley Cooper pairing looks like the only thing keeping it in anybody’s minds, as otherwise it’s a purely independent European production with no major names whatsoever. Its distributors don’t have a whole lot of heft, and it doesn’t even have a US one yet.
I don’t disagree with any of that, Mr. Adams. I envision many more blow-up kitchen appliances in this talented young woman’s very bright future.
I guess this makes me a really bad person, but at some point I would like to see the dangling carrot of Jennifer Lawrence’ sexuality actually manifest itself as something remotely sexual onscreen.
“dangling carrot of sexuality” is probably not the best metaphor I ever came up with.
I apologize for my poor choice of synonyms. Semantics aside, I still would not characterize Ms. Lawrence’s characters or performances as tame or prettified.
I think some of us are just glad to see Jennifer Lawrence unleash the full range of her fiery personality in ways I’ve never seen before. Winter’s Bone was fantastic. Huge fan of that performance. But I feel she’s been constricted by formulaic expectations and happy-ending narrative obligations in every other movie she’s ever done.
At least we can agree that she looks fabulous here.
Serena has the potential on the page to provide her with another worthy opportunity. But we don’t know what happened to that movie. Can they have bungled it that badly in filming?
OT: Matthew McConaughey (Dallas Buyers Club) and Scarlett Johansson (Her) won Best Actor and Best Actress respectively at the Rome Film Fest. I think Johansson should be seriously considered for a supporting actress slot. She has a killer narrative (a bombshell impressing audiences without a second of screentime), it is a prestige pic from a big studio and for someone still only in her twenties, she has already delivered several memorable performances (Lost in Translation in particular) without ever receiving an Oscar nod.
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I wonder what Charles and Camilla would say.
Ms. Stone, where are these prettified, tame Jennifer Lawrence roles of which you speak? Was she a glamour-puss in “Winter’s Bone”? Was she demure in “Hunger Games” or Silver Linings Playbook?” It is true that being a non-lead, as in “American Hustle”, Jen can go off the rails a bit more; that’s called being a character actor. Prettified and tame? In what?
“Glamour-puss” is not a synonyms for prettified. “Demure” is not the same as tame.
She was prettified and tame in Sliver Linings Playbook. She was a standard-issue Dance-With-Me! Let-Me-Sit-In-Your-Lap! snuggle-bunny manhunter.
An enormous part The Hunger Games is nothing but a Cinderella story where the poverty-kid is plucked out of oblivion and prettified to become a gaudy media starlet.
House cats might hiss and scratch when they get mad. They’re still tame.
Tame does not mean emotionless. All the characters in every David O Russell movie lose their tempers. All of them always. It’s nonstop yelling.
But the standard obligatory getting pissed and yelling in every David O Russell film is nothing like the sizzle from Jennifer Lawrence I see in this clip.
That. wig…
phantom, I wasn´t referring especially to you. However, have we both seen the same clip?! I mean yeah she looks so much fun to be with, right? And maybe he´s looking for something different and realized he made a huge mistake marrying her…or maybe we haven´t even seen the movie…
Not one cheating on the young hot chick with someone almost two decades her senior. You missed my point entirely.
Like we´ve never seen a fat old ugly guy married to a young hot chick.
Promising though the casting does seem….well…inspired ? In what universe is it believable that an out of shape guy in his forties cheats on a 22 year old blonde bombshell like Lawrence with a 39 year old Amy Adams ? Don’t get me wrong, I find Amy Adams beautiful, it just feels to me that these two switched roles on a dare or something. Adams could have been more believable as the hot, sassy, neurotic first wife and Lawrence as the dangerous young seductress. Then again I didn’t get how she got Tiffany, either. Still a great actress, just don’t understand why she gets roles that are supposed to be for considerably older actresses.
I love Jennifer lawrence but to me she does seem a bit young to be playing this part. I might also change my mind after I see the film but I feel that this would have been a great opportunity for an older actress. id love to see her play someone close to her age, we need her kind of talent portraying realistic young women other than katniss (which she does a great job at doing btw)
Apologies from a longtime J Law fan but this clip starts out a ten and ends a 2. She seems to really break character halfway thru not to mention a change in accent.
Is Hollywoods new way of aging out women 30+ by giving all of their parts to 22 year olds? She’s beautiful and foxy and more here but looks like a sorority girl wearing her mothers clothes to Halloween party. Hope there is more to come and it’s better. I was letdown.
I mean, at this point I wouldn’t object to Jennifer Lawrence playing every role in every movie ever made from here on out….
Your comment is ridiculous JESS
another movie in which JLaw plays JLaw. Groundbreaking.
The editing of this clip is terrible!!!!
Not a good clip. Looks like a MTV pilot.
Winter’s Bone, Silver Linings, Hunger Games…prettified and tamed aren’t really the words that come to mind when I think of Lawrence and her body of work thus far. She looks dynamite in this film as always. She is really proving to be an incredibly dynamic young actress.
If this movie takes off (like I think it will), then I call Bale as stealing Hanks’s spot, especially if Hanks is considered a certain nom for Saving Mr. Banks.
Same statement could be made for DiCaprio.
Those two could grab the Hanks, Dern noms if they’re as firey and interesting as they look.
I like Jennifer Lawrence, I really do, and as much as I liked her in this clip playing the sassy girl, I can’t shake the feeling that she seems too young to play this part…I’ll wait until I see the movie of course, but It looks like someone 10 years older would be a better fit..somebody else got the same vibe?
I thought we don’t like Jennifer Lawrence on here? Lol
I mean she’s absolutely getting a nomination for this film