Jennifer Lawrence will play Robert De Niro's mother in next David O. Russell movie
Lawrence says the director is sick that 'people give him crap about me being too young for his parts.'
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Your support makes all the difference.Jennifer Lawrence will play Robert De Niro's mother in David O. Russell's next film.
Speaking to Live! With Kelly and Michael on her starring role in O. Russell's Joy, Lawrence revealed, "David is making something right now and the plan, so far, is for me to play Bob De Niro’s mother ... I think that the more people give him crap about me being too young for his parts, he’s like, ‘Oh yeah, watch this’ – so we’ll see.”
It's difficult to set yourself against the incredible creative chemistry that exists between O. Russell and Lawrence, yet the actress has consistently appeared in his films playing roles that seem written for significantly older actresses. Her part in Silver Linings Playbook had been originally sought after by Angelina Jolie, the jaded housewife of American Hustle didn't fully sit right on Lawrence's 23-year-old shoulders, and she now spends much of Joy as a supposedly middle-aged woman. And considering it's reflective of wider Hollywood trends in which roles for older actresses become increasingly limited, there does exist an uncomfortable element to O. Russell's casting habits.
Lawrence is currently 25 years old, De Niro is 72; what kind of wondrous de-aging or aging processes will be needed to make this work? Considering the kind of harmonious cinematic family they've become, maybe this kind of special effects wizardry is exactly what's needed to keep their filmmaking fresh, considering Lawrence has stated she'd like to work with the director until he dies.
Lawrence didn't elaborate on what the project would consist of, though the intergenerational element would fit with O. Russell's earlier comments that he had been working on a 600-page 'family opus' for Lawrence previously to Joy.
Joy opens in UK theatres 1 January.
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