Jennifer Lawrence returns this month in the film “Causeway” available on Apple TV+ from November 4. During a recent interview given to the New York Times, she revealed the surprising reason that led her to withdraw from Adam McKay’s next film “Bad Blood”.
Jennifer Lawrence returns to the cinema
In recent years, Jennifer Lawrence has been rather discreet on the screens. Between 2017 and 2022, she only appeared in four feature films: Mother, Red Sparrow, X-Men: Dark Phoenix and Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial. It must be said that her private life has been busy since she became a mother in February 2022 of a little boy named Cy.
She returns at the end of the year in the film Causeway, available on Apple TV+ today, November 4. She interprets the role of Lynsey, an engineer in the army who finds herself injured by an explosive device during a mission in Afghanistan. suffering from brain damage, she returns to the United States. She then begins a painful healing to relearn how to walk and make her memory work. In her journey, she meets a man, also on the road to reconstruction.
Why She’s Saying No to Adam McKay’s New Movie
Before CausewayJennifer Lawrence had filmed under the direction of Adam McKay in the Netflix film Don’t Look Up alongside Leonardo DiCaprio. She was camping a doctoral student in astronomy which attempted to alert the world to the danger of a comet heading towards Earth.
Their collaboration proved fruitful since the director and the actress were to meet for the feature film Bad Blood. But she ultimately declined the offer.
Indeed, during an interview with journalist Kyle Buchanan of the New York Times, she revealed that she gave up the role for a surprising reason. He shared the information on Twitter:
Jennifer Lawrence was therefore supposed to interpret the role of Elizabeth Holmes, the founder of the American company Theranos. In January 2022, she was convicted of defrauding investors and was convicted of multiple frauds.
His story had already been addressed in the mini-series The Dropout (released this year on Disney+). And it was actress Amanda Seyfried who played her.
In front of the incredible performance of the latter (moreover rewarded with an Emmy Award), Jennifer Lawrence preferred to withdraw from the project. She said:
I thought she was amazing in it. I said to myself “no, we don’t need to do that again, she did it”.
A reaction that commands respect.
At this time, we don’t know which actress will replace her, or even if the film will be made without her.
