Adele advised Jennifer Lawrence not to do ‘Passengers’: “I should have listened to her”

Do you know a filmography, by any actor or actress, that is absolutely flawless? There will be some, although it will probably be very short, but it won’t be Jennifer Lawrence’s. The actress, who achieved world fame with “The Hunger Games” and “X-Men: First Generation” despite being previously nominated for an Oscar for “Winter’s Bone”, worked under Darren’s orders (among others). Aronofsky, Adam McKay, Francis Lawrence, Drake Doremus and he’s a regular in David O. Russell’s films, but there is one title in his career that has come out so regularly that it has made him rethink his professional decisions.

This is’ Passengers’, the space love story in which he starred alongside Chris Pratt and directed Morten Tyldum (“The Imitation Game (Deciphering Enigma)”) in 2016. ‘Passengers’ is the story of a’ spaceship carrying thousands of people from Earth to a new colony. The journey takes 120 years, so the entire crew is in a state of hibernation, until two of them wake up. “For error” 90 years from arrival at destination, condemned to die there without ever reaching the planet Homestead II.

In Rotten Tomatoes the film has a 30% of critical reviews, even if it did not do badly at the box office, raising just over $ 303 million on a budget of $ 110 million. In an interview with the New York Times, Lawrence explained that her friend Adele had also advised her not to: “He said to me, ‘I think space movies are the new vampire movies. I should have listened to her. ”

a break

As early as 2021, the actress explained to Vanity Fair that this failure led her to step away from the spotlight and take a break. And it is that since 2011 she has not stopped, publishing between 2 and 3 titles a year: “I think everyone has had enough of me. I had had enough of myself. He had gotten to a point where he wasn’t doing any good. If he walked on a red carpet, people would say, “Why didn’t he run away?”

“I think I want to satisfy people for most of my life”Lorenzo continued, “Working made me feel like no one could be mad at me: ‘OK, I say yes, we do, no one gets mad. And then I felt like I got to the point where no one was happy with my mere existence. So that put me off from the idea that your job or your career can bring some kind of peace to your soul. ” After a hiatus as an actress, Lawrence is back on the big screen with “Don’t Look Up” and will soon premiere “Causeway” on Apple TV +.