Jennifer Lawrence couldn't deal with Darren Aronofsky's obsession with Mother!: 'It's all he wanted to talk about'
'The last thing I wanted to think about was the movie'
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Your support makes all the difference.Jennifer Lawrence has commented on the clashes she faced with director Darren Aronofsky during the promotional tour for their recent film mother!.
Lawrence, who starred in the hugely divisive psychological horror film, was speaking to Adam Sandler as part of Variety's annual Actors on Actors interview series when the conversation fixed upon their hatred of talking about and reading reviews of their own films after a full day of promotion.
The Oscar-winner faced a particular struggle with mother!, however - according to Lawrence, all Aronofsky wanted to do was discuss the film.
“We’d be on the tour together, I’d come back to the hotel and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is the movie, and he comes back and that’s all he wants to talk about,” she told Sandler.
“I was doing double duty of trying to be a supportive partner while also being like, ‘Can I please, for the love of God, not think about mother! for one second?’”
Lawrence and Aronofsky dated during the production on the film and right through its promotional tour eventually calling time on their relationship earlier this month.
She insists she stands by mother!, saying: “It’s so bizarre because you’re so in the zone, you put your whole soul and body, you move to shoot a movie, and you then love it, obviously because you wouldn’t be there if you didn’t love it, and then people just destroy it.”
Sandler is no stranger to negative reviews despite his recent praise for Noah Baumbach film The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Elsewhere in the interview, Sandler commented on the mauling he received for cult 90s comedies Billy Madison and Happy Gilmore.
You can watch the full interview below.
Upon its release, mother! - which also starred Javier Bardem - became one of only a dozen or so movies to be branded with the dreaded F Cinemascore grade by US moviegoers, the most violently negative reaction any film can have - something which later caused Paramount Pictures to release a statement defending the film.
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