Jennifer Lawrence and David O. Russell are working together in Boston on their third collaboration, Joy (the Miracle Mop biopic). JLaw’s been spotted walking her dog in the snow, and she flipped off the paparazzi. We talked on Friday about the reported screaming match between JLaw and Russell, who also kicked Harvey Weinstein off the set. I referenced a NSFW video of Russell screaming at Lily Tomlin. The video was filmed on the I Heart Huckabees (2004) set. Russell was blacklisted for years after that disturbing tirade but came back with The Fighter (2010). George Clooney, who worked with Russell on Three Kings (1999), went on record saying the director pushed and humiliated people on the regular.
Page Six had a different take on the situation, which their source described as a “meltdown” on JLaw’s behalf: “He was screaming at her. She was screaming at him. It was loud.” A studio publicist said, “There was no fight. David is very passionate.” The scene in question was heavy, and JLaw was holding a crying baby. Assuming this wasn’t a fake baby scenario, a young child was subjected to this mess. Jennifer got wind of these stories and defended Russell on Facebook. Several aspects of this note feels “off” to me, so let’s discuss:
Hey guys!
It’s Jen! I know I don’t go on here a lot because I can barely work email but there’s been a terrible rumor going around the last 24 hours so I wanted to clear it up.
David O. Russell is one of my closest friends and we have an amazing collaborative working relationship. I adore this man and he does not deserve this tabloid malarkey. This movie is going great and I’m having a blast making it!
[From Jennifer Lawrence on Facebook]
Here are my issues: (1) This statement doesn’t deny anything about the screaming match. It only raves about Russell. (2) This doesn’t read like anything that would come out of Jennifer’s mouth. It sounds like a PR person (a fan of Joe Biden) trying to sound like JLaw, who has probably never used the word “malarkey“; (3) The statement comes from Jennifer’s official Facebook page, but JLaw has previously gone on record to say, “If you ever see a Facebook, Instagram or Twitter that says it’s me, it most certainly is not“; (4) “Jennifer” claims not to understand email, but she enjoys it enough to craft “peanutbutt” as her handle (as revealed in the Sony hack).
JLaw has a big enough career that we can assume she chose to work with Russell again. Perhaps she feels like she owes him after winning an Oscar for one of his films. Maybe she’s wary of speaking against a rage monster, who was welcomed back into Hollywood despite his bad behavior. George Clooney got away with telling the truth about Russell, but could an actress do the same without being seen as “difficult”? That’s an actual question.
Another bit of JLaw news. This week’s issue of Star has a little blurb about her waning friendship with Bradley Cooper. BCoop will also appear in Joy, but he and JLaw are acting “quite frosty” towards each other, and “nobody knows exactly why.”
Here’s some photos of JLaw on set as Joy Mangano. This movie comes out on Christmas, which means it’s Oscar bait.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Fame/Flynet & WENN
Whoa, someone is seriously upset behind the scenes. This statement was a stupid idea! The story was almost gone (Russell is awful, that’s not news) and now we are all curious again. Where there is smoke there is fire. Did she actually write that? Doubt it. But whose idea was it? All very interesting.
She clearly screwing him
So is Leo screwing Scorsese, Johnny Depp screwing Tim burton, Bill Murray and Wes Anderson?etc…or is that accusation just saved for actresses.
I agree. She was screwing him and perhaps stopped and he went wild.
Because she had a reported conflict with him but tried to smooth things over for public relations purposes? By that standard, Jamie Dornan and Dakota Johnson are having a mad love affair and Charile Hunnam and E.L. James are on the verge of announcing their engagement.
No,you confuse Hunnam and James wil be Ana and Grey in Grey’s sequels
Russell doesn’t like women. He likes to use them, especially when they’ll get his overrated movies more attention. Ask his transgendered niece how much he loves women.
There’s no way J Law is sleeping with him. He doesn’t f*ck women. Just f*cks them over.
When will Hollywood finally blacklist this d!ck once and for all???
Ugh, yup it looks like it.
Because they had a fight?
They had an argument on set
This misogynist douche throws items and temper tantrums at women. No one should be treated that way. No excuses.
True but he’s a thousand times more powerful than she is, so she’d better watch her step. Her 15 minutes have been glorious but age 30 looms large and it’s powerful men like him who decide if she’s the next Meryl Streep or the next Karen Allen.
Oh please. He is not that powerful.
Powerful enough to churn out mediocre films and get Oscar noms and wins for his leads!
@BETTYROSE: I would argue that it’s Jennifer Lawrence that is more powerful than Russell at this point (also that it is a working relationship that is valuable to both).
I also believe that both Lawrence and Russell are very passionate people, had an argument about the scene they were working on, but that the whole thing was blown waaay out of proportion, hence the FB post.
Jules – Anything is possible, but young starlets are mere commodities in Hollywood – valuable only as long as they hold down “it girl” status. JLaw has a solid fan base right now and that gives her power, but everyone knows her power is much more fleeting than that of established producer/directors, who ultimately are the ones to make and break careers. The fact is that even if JLaw plays her cards exactly right, her career could still very much fade away in a few years, going from leading lady to supporting roles to cameos to relative obscurity (a la Karen Allen, who was a household name in the early 80s and now. . . )
She has more power than David will ever have in Hollywood. She makes them $$; he doesn’t.
i agree with Luce and Jules, Jennifer is more powerful. we had the same discussion with Stewart and Sanders. by now it should be clear that Kristen was the more powerful one and her career is better than ever, it was the man who was blacklisted for his infidelity.
As far as Lawrence’s relationship with Cooper is concerned, Gossip Cop already debunked it. Besides, Cooper only arrived on set Tuesday (left Wednesday morning)…when did Star have the time to notice a change in their relationship?. It is also worth mentioning that lots of people were tweeting that Lawrence and Cooper were having lunch together at a local High School…sitting together.
As for the Russell rumors…I have a feeling they argued but that the whole thing is being blown out of proportion. Eonline also quoted a rep for Weinstein who says that Harvey was not ordered off set, that he did meet with Lawrence to talk business with her and left after about an hour.
Joy will be a messy filming like American Hustle’s filming was.
At AH’s release,Some journalists ( Tapley and Thompson) said Lawrence and Bale didn’t want to work with DOR anymore because of his lunatic behavior on set and it was why they ( more or less) dropped the promotion.
He’s trash. He got into a screaming match with Lily Tomlin, on video, Bale had to defend Amy Adams because he was being a douche, he complained about J-Laws contract for THG comparing it to slavery! Oh and then there’s Clooney almost strangling him when working with him. Yup, he’s a POS.
DOR doesn’t want his prize pet to leave but he isn’t charming the way he goes about it because he knows she’s young and he basically made her career. Besides THG, DOR’s films are the few ones she does that are successful and get her Oscar credit.
You best believe the story is true, it might have been even worse given his awful reputation and past actions. What is happening now is classic damage control. As if Weinstein is going to admit there are issues and J-Law is not going to go against the man who uses her for every project and gets Oscar attention. She is thinking about her career.
Weinstein no doubt leaked the story to begin with.
@LUCE: Oh, I totally believe that Weinstein leaked this story. I guess Weinstein is nervous about the competition for next year’s Oscar race.
@Jules — yep, and/or wanting to show David who has the upper hand and/or wanting to mark his territory with JLaw and the film world in general.
Probably all of the above. HW is awful in so many ways, but this is amusing to me because it’s an awful person slapping down a more awful person.
Are there stories about HW being awful to people? Or are you refering to the Casting Couch-rumors?
Tired of the Oscar baiting films. And Oscar baiting actors.
That said, He is a dick. They are trying to sugarcoat what happened but I bet she will be singing a different tune when the video/audio leaks
@Jaana: Well, that’s the thing…there is no audio/video, just a “source” and yeah, because of Russell’s previous blowout with Lily Tomlin, it would be easy to just throw this story out there, get people to believe it without actual audio/video proof. I really think it’s been blown out of proportion.
First, we’re talking about 3 separate incidents here (J Law, Harvey, and the studio exec he berated) none of which were really denied.
Second, the Lily Tomlin incident wasn’t isolated to that only instance. Russel has a history of screaming at people on his movies and treating him like dirt. He made everyone so miserable on the set of I Heart Huckabee’s that no one would work with him (see the eventual folding of his attempted feature after that) and the only reason why he got a shot with The Fighter was because he was friends with Marky Mark and they were desperate fo a director. Supposedly Russell cleaned up his act for a couple of movies (though he booted Marky Mark from SLP – way to burn the guy that brought you back from career purgatory) but he has a long, long history of being abusive to the people he works with, and he was reportedly back to his old self with American Hustle.
there is not always audio/video proof of things.. and if that is the measure that has to be met for something to be true; well it would be a different world wouldn’t it.
I note that no one else is coming forward to actually deny this happened.. just that it was not a big deal.
He should be the one releasing a statement, not her. And that facebook message does sound fake as hell. I too am wondering why she is working with him again, does he have some dirt on her or something?
You do know her work with him earned her an Oscar for SLP and another nomination for AH and she got great reviews and other awards so its just a smart career move to work with him.
@SAM: Agreed.
I know she got a lot of accolades working with him, but since she already received an Oscar from working with him (which seems to be the ultimate goal) why not move on to other directors? I just can’t wrap my head around someone that has the opportunity to work with anyone would stick to working with an abusive git. It’s not like she needs him to be taken seriously as an actress.
This. She’s protecting her career. The Sony hack revealed as much that women’s positions are very fragile no matter what their status is.
Re: her working with him again – my guess is she’s not unused to people being difficult on set; Hollywood does have a lot of delicate egos.
Why are the tabs trying to make her and B Coop happen? Every chance they get they publish something about them.
And I think they’re working together again just simply because their projects get attenntion and accolades.They have to make it look like a unified front though, hence the stupid Facebook statement.
Yes, that’s def. her PR team writing on her behalf. Lupita and Kerry have teams who do the same.
It was quite interesting reading comments from women making excuses for his behavior..
He is talented.. He puts actors in roles that get them Awards recognition. He has had many hits. He doesn’t make them work for him.
On and on and on.
But if this was a woman she would get flayed and the same people so supportive of him would be all over her. I never ever understand this mentality with women. Why is it so fine for a successful man when he is abusive and abrasive. And notice that some of these women he has done this too are all OH we are friends.. its fine”..
I have never had a friend treat me that way. I guess I demand a higher level of respect from the people I call “friend or whom I love and that love me.
His movies are boring, how is this man talented really? It’s mindboggling that the Academy loves him that much because if there is a minimally talented spoiled brat in Hollywood, it’s definitely this douche. He can’t even keep it together during awards (when he loses, he has so much attitude!).
+100
OMFG, yes! Quite honestly, I could only get through two of his movies–American Hustle and The Fighter. And I got confused halfway into American Hustle, so I don’t count that as a win for his directing abilities. I think his direction is just BORING. And I get bored easily during movies……
+1000
To be honest, I have very little sympathy for those that choose to continue to work with him and employ him. At this point it should be a surprise when a man that his a long record of behaving badly behaves badly, but I also don’t think that J Law is asking for sympathy here.
Ultimately, Russell will only have a job for as long as his movies are runaway successes. One slip up and he’s out, because he’s going to reap what he sows.
This completely. She’s old enough now that she doesn’t need others to intervene on her behalf, if she’s decided the abuse is worth it then it’s her choice but I’m no longer concerned then.
Ugh. I am sorry I just don’t get that their collaboration is so amazing and Oscar worthy. I thought that both AH and ST were sooo overrated. I just don’t get it or her appeal. And why is she playing a 30-40 year old? Damn, Chastain and Adams (or the numerous other talented 30 something actresses) unavailable? And I for one will not he running to the theater to see a movie about the Mangeno. It sounds like a lifetime movie for goodness sakes.
I think she has fallen into a pattern. Problem is casting people are thinking of her as an OLDER actress. It would be great for her to play a character her own age or close to it. By the time she is actually 30 I think she won’t be considered for the parts anymore. It is a hole she should crawl out of. Be her age and play some fun parts that showcase her that way.
Honestly I think he casts her in roles meant for older actresses because he can control her in a way he couldn’t with most actresses a bit older.
I’m so glad you pointed this out. I liked her in SLP but it was weird to me that a strikingly beautiful 20 year old with a banging body (that’s what she looked like) was a widow who had held a real job for years. She looked like a cute college age girl but I think the character was supposed to be like 30, so it was just so weird lol. And then in AH I’m still not sure what to think about that performance. She was very noticeable and memorable, but I’m not sure if the performance itself was good. She looked like a teen mom and her accent was kind of bad. Like, I feel like she should have been played by someone like the lady who was Leo’s first wife in the Wolf of Wall Street. Not a 20 year old blonde bombshell. These casting choices are kind of baffling. :/
That being said, love her in the Hunger Games movies. I don’t care what anyone says. Her performances in those movies provide a strong emotional core and is a big part of what sets those movies apart from other YA films. So I do think she can act, just not as a 35 year old.
The lady who played Leo’s first wife is margot robbie and she is the same age as Jennifer but she does look older. I don’t understand how a lot of people Don’t get that Jennifer was supposed to be playing a young trophy wife in AH and even christian bale character kept saying how young she is, he married her cause she was pregnant and lost.
@ Sam: Actually, the woman who played Leo’s first wife in WOWS was Cristin Miliot (the mother in How I met Your Mother). Christin is 29 years old (would have been 27 during filming), so I do agree with bjesgirl that casting someone like Christin would have been better for American Hustle.
@Hiddlesgirl85 oops sorry I didn’t remember her and I found margot much more memorable and would’ve worked in AH because she was a trophy wife as well in WOWS.
This drives me crazy. He keeps casting a baby-faced 20-something in roles for women at least 10 years older. There are so many talented actresses in their 30s that he could use. OR he could pick an interesting story about a 20-something to cast J-Law in. I think her acting is fantastic; but it is distracting that she is soooo much younger than the roles demand. Seriously, she’s playing a single mum with 3 kids in her late 30s in this movie! So ridiculous.
The pixie blonde look doesn’t suit her. I like her better with dark hair. Yes I know she’s a natural blonde but we haven’t seen her natural color in years and I’d bet it has darkened with age – and IMO her maturing features are better suited to a darker color and longer styling.
” And why is she playing a 30-40 year old? Damn, Chastain and Adams (or the numerous other talented 30 something actresses) unavailable? ”
Agreed!
I can’t understand their recurrent need to keep casting Lawrence for way older characters (apart from Hunger Games, the only age appropriate character she’s played in years!)
She doesn’t look like she’s in her 30s, I mean WTF
Or is she just more subservient and mellow than more experienced veteran actresses who wouldn’t take this crap
Jennifer’s and Bradley next film Serena is going to Video on demand and VOD.. no one is making a big deal about that being the case. We all know that we could name many actors/actresses that have had this happen or if it happened it would be on every gossip site as a sign of failure or their career downfall.
You have 2 Oscar nominated actors and this is how they are rolling out the film before it’s US release. It has not done well overseas so I guess they are trying to get some money behind it.
I actually like her, but people can be very hypocritical in how they assess others.
Agree on the Selma thing. Why is that being swept under the rug? Where are all the pundits saying how it’ll effect their careers? Are they that profitable that a huge failure like that is dismissed and covered up by the higher ups? I find that hard to believe. There was a lot of commentary about Eddie Red. and the utter crap that was Jupiter Ascending and he can’t even claim that he was good in it. Critics panned his performance and especially that awful “accent”. No one has a problem criticizing Oscar winners/contenders. Why are these 2 immune?
It’s a small independent movie which has been on shell for a few years now, not an expensive studio flop so there obviously not similar significance of losing few millions than losing over $100 million.
The whole movie is reportedly quite a mess but the director Susanne Bier has gone on record saying that the suddenly rise of JLaw and BCoop made the producers try to turn a non-commercial dark and slow movie about unlikelable people trying to kill others due to their greed into some kind of epic love story to get the Silver Linings Playbook. She claims the producers took a movie away from her and edited it themselves and she doesn’t even recognize the final product.
Most of the indie movies never get wide theatrical release anymore, the only reason why Serena not getting one is thanks to the fame of its leads. But I’m glad the media has mainly left the failure alone. It’s hard enough for female directors in Hollywood that they don’t have to be tearing down Susanne Bier further.
@CICI: Agreed. I was just about to write the same thing and you beat me to it…bravo!.
That’s a shame with “Serena” if that’s really what went down. The movie had a lot of potential to be a great character piece.
Actually that film has been talked about in a negative light. It was pushed from its original release date to a February date which is never good.
A film’s success or failure tends to be judged against its budget. This is a mid-budget film that cost $25-30 million. It will almost certainly lose money, but it’s not the kind of studio-crippling loss that something like a Lone Ranger or a Jupiter Ascending is.
And, like Jupiter Ascending, it sounds like the primary problem with the movie is something besides the actors’ performances. Redmayne’s work was discussed, but no one seemed to think that performance would sink his career. No one predicted doom for Mila Kunis or Channing Tatum, either.
I love the book Serena- but she was woefully miscast. Every still and in the trailer she looks like a young girl playing dress up. I am sorry to read about the director’s experiences. Great source material, tho.
I’ve seen Serena – probably one of the few people who have. The script is very poor, the overall tone of the film is all over the place, and its obviously been chopped to pieces in the editing room. In general, it’s a forgettable film – and I suspect some blame must attach to Susanne Bier as director. However, the acting is decent – and Lawrence is extremely good (as noted by Variety in their review).
So glad they cast a 24-year-old to play a woman in her thirties.
No offense to Jennifer Lawrence, but I saw American Hustle and she was ridiculous in it. The inappropriateness of her casting was distracting and took away from my ability to ‘get lost’ in the film. She looked like a little girl wearing one of her mother’s dresses, reciting lines in a “Noo Yawk” accent while trying not to dislodge the towering wig perched on top of her head.
But hey – what can you do, right? The director’s and producers’ hands are tied – obviously there are absolutely zero talented actresses in their thirties currently working in film who could have been cast in that role. And now we have it again…yeah, I think I’ll be taking a pass on seeing this film.
Koodos for the sarcasm. I felt the whole movie was ridiculous. I only really liked Renner in it, but I must admit bias there. Everyone else acting so hard it showed. Like they took every textbook example out of How To Act For Dummies and copy and pasted it into their performances. I couldn’t see the characters for the acting. Oscar bait to the max and nothing redeemable about it to make up for it.
I saw all of that in the trailers. And the biggest issue I had and why I did t see it is because of DOR and her being miscast.
I lost my faith in critics and film industry in general after I’ve read so many reviews praising her acting in AH and after she got so many awards for this… Her crappy acting was beyond ridiculous.
In my opinion, Jennifer Lawrence gave a terrific performance…when she wasn’t onscreen, the film tended to drag a little.
I totally agree–the critics seem to mistake charisma with great acting when it comes to her. Is she charismatic? Yes. And Christian Bale pretty much said that’s her personality. But riding on your personality is not acting. Both het characters in Silver Linings and American Hustle were exactly the same–drama queen/over-acting. The only differences were the hair color and bad accents. I thought both movies were so mediocre and she stood out because of her personality.
I think Harvey Weinstein did a lot of campaigns to get her an Oscar. When she thanked Harvey, she said, thanks for killing whoever you had to kill in order for me to get here. That’s probably not too far off. Looks like Harvey is meeting her on set. Maybe already planning her next Oscar run?
This is the most accurate post I’ve ever read about Jennifer, in my opinion. I completely agree with everything you said. She gas the best PR team in the business.
I think its ridiculous that you judged her acting on just these two movies, even tho I don’t think these two characters had much resemble to each other and she played them quite well . You should see her other work in THG or winters’s bone or even the burning plain where she won Venice award for her work in it. the poker house is also one of her first movies and she was amazing in it. You can just say you don’t enjoy her acting instead of acting like those who do find her talented are wrong or at least do better research about how Oscar campaigns work, btw Harvey campaigned just as hard this year for The imitation game. She also got nominated for AH without Harvey and without campaigning that year.
Wow, you’re taking someone’s opinion personally. Not everyone is a fan, okay. And, I saw all her other work. “PEETA!!! PEETA!!!”-in awful screechy voice. Yes, that was great acting. How did I miss that? 🙂 I find her to be adequate so far. I can’t say any more than that. Time will tell if she’s got range or if she will skate by on personality, imo.
I didn’t really take it personally and I know that not everyone is a fan, I just thought to recommend her other work if you didn’t see it cause you just mentioned slp and AH. If you seen all her movies and don’t find her good then maybe she is just not for you, there is no need to claim that people are mistaken charisma with good acting.
@SAM: Plus one million…regarding everything you have written here today!.
J-Law has tremendous acting skills, just watch Winter’s Bone and the HG movies if you weren’t impressed with her in SLP and AH. Personally, I agree her casting was a little questionable in those two films – but her performance was the best thing about them both, and managed imo to elevate very mediocre material into something better. It seems to be that her success is bringing backlash, which I can understand, but her ability is obvious.
I am puzzled that even successful actresses accept abuse (verbal abuse is still abuse) in order to keep receiving opportunities. This director should be the one giving a statement, not the victim of his abuse. Unless, she went overboard too, there is footage and she is trying to keep things underwrapped.
Here’s the real story: the media creates false dramas and then stars are forced to ignore or address these lies created by the media which never gets anything right. Look at the recent Scarlett Johansson /John Travolta mistepresentation in the news. The media claims his kiss on her cheek was I welcomed and creepy and then Johansson set the record straight saying 100% the opposite
An actress or an actor wouldn’t get away with calling Russell out, but JLaw would.
JLaw is not any actress, just like George Clooney is not just an actor, these are well-respected people, recognized for their talent by an entire industry. So, if JLaw is covering for him, it’s her business, but please don’t make this a sex discrimnation issue.
You really don’t get it.
J.Law depends on directors and producers. Guys like Russel and Weinstein can make or break her career. No woman in Hollywood can go against them that’s why whenever there’s talk about inappropriate behaviour from men in the industry towards actresses they come out to defend those men because they don’t want to be blacklisted as difficult.
Jessica Chestain is already on their shit list with her comments about racism and sexism, calling out Russell Crow on his stupid sexist/ageist comment while Meryl Streep was defending him.
No one dares to speak against Polanski or Allen.
@als, when George confronted Russell he had nowhere near the power and influence he does now, or that JLaw has at this point in her career. He was still a TV actor trying to break into film. That he spoke up at all did jeopardize his career for a time.
I’m not surprised by her statement and I believe she wrote it to. Working with him gets JL nominated so she going to but up with his crap and do or say anything to keep him happy. That’s why she making the statement and not him like it should be.
Jen is like some other celebrities and this is why David O. Russell, Woody Allen, Uncle Terry, Scott Rudin, Roman Polanski and so on still work in the business. .
Lol at Star for publishing that story before Cooper even reported to the set. They could have at least done a little research. It wasn’t a secret he was still on Broadway up until the Oscars.
@Rachel: Ha!. Exactly, I thought of that fact as well regarding Lawrence/Cooper and Star’s fake story.
I will be fun to watch how they handle this story when they promote the movie, which by the way sounds so boring.
Does this qualify her as a “studio punk’, according to Sean Penn?
Maybe she really is in her 30’s. Or 70’s because I don’t know any 20-something’s ignorant enough to “barely know how to work email”, because who calls it “work email” unless you are trying to convincingly act (oh, she’s good!) as if you don’t know that statement makes you appear ignorant, and because you went out on a limb to convince the public you are vulnerable so what you say just has to be the truth. In any case, the comments are interesting because in spite of Hollywood telling us what’s good and what isn’t, we consumers are correctly identifying ridiculous casting and bad movies for what they are, while wondering why relevant films get pushed aside. Silly us. In any case, it makes sense that even in jobs where you get paid millions you still have to kiss the hind ends of abusive, ego-maniacal, horrible bosses and pretend like you like it and it isn’t what it is. Bad news, you can’t lie to us about that, anyone who has ever been in the working world has been there at least once. Abuse of power is found in all pay levels. Exposure and then honesty are what will bring about change. Historically that doesn’t happen and there will be no trail-blazing here.
I assume she was speaking hyperbolically. She probably can use computers well enough, she just chooses to avoid engaging in social networks. I’m 28 and have no idea how to work Twitter and other major networking sites simply because I don’t use them.
Thank you! She’s 24 years old (or however old she is) and claims to not know email and isn’t tech savvy? Probably explains why all her photos were hacked then.
What a non-story. Until she says she hates him, who cares?
Definitely a PR move. The thing is, I don’t know why? At this point, everyone knows Russell’s reputation. Nobody is surprised. It’s not like this is going to hurt him in the long run.
Fincher had a huge hiatus in his movie career ( between Panic Room and Benjamin Button) because of his difficult reputation with the studio.DOR had a long hiatus before The Figther because of his behavior.Norton almost stopped to work because of his reputation
It could hurt him
oh come on.
Everyone good relationship has screaming matches.
Why bother giving this story legs?!?! PR fail.
I can’t believe how much traction this non-story is getting. A flare-up on big budget movie being made by a director with a big ego and temper control issues is not news – it probably happens every day of the week. Nor is David O Russell necessarily the biggest offender in the business. Inarritu is also famously difficult – he’s probably yelling at DiCaprio on the set of Revenant as I type this.
And yes, J-Law needs to keep big name directors on her side, or her career will suffer a down-turn – they have the power, actresses can always be replaced. Furthermore, she should do her utmost to avoid being trapped playing characters in their early-mid 20s. There are very few good roles for female actors in that age range who don’t want to play ‘blonde girlfriend No 2’. In fact, Lawrence deserves great credit for her success in building a career that so far hasn’t involved her making a film where she has been stuck playing a blonde prop to the leading man.
Gill B: This!…plus one zillion. It’s a total nonstory that the gossip rags are trying (and actually, are ultimately failing) to make a big deal out of the whole thing. I also agree that Jennifer Lawrence deserves a lot of credit for the way that she has built her very successful career…Amen to that!!.