Jennifer Lawrence

After taking a break from acting for a few years because she felt she wasn’t “pumping out the quality” she should have (with X-Men: Dark Phoenix factoring into that belief), Jennifer Lawrence returned to cinematic territory last year with Don’t Look Up, which is streamable with a Netflix subscription. Nearly a year later, Apple TV+ subscribers will soon be able to watch Lawrence in the psychological drama Causeway, and that will be followed next year by No Hard Feelings. However, the upcoming movie Bad Blood is no longer on the horizon for the actress, and Lawrence explained why she dropped out of playing Elizabeth Holmes.

Back in 2016, it was announced that Jennifer McKay and writer/director Adam McKay were teaming together for Bad Blood, which is based on the same-named 2018 book about Elizabeth Holmes, the disgraced CEO of the health technology company Theranos. Since then, Hulu subscribers have seen Amanda Seyfried play Holmes in the limited series The Dropout, and Lawrence revealed that Seyfried’s performance is the reason why she’s no longer doing Bad Blood. As Lawrence put it:

I thought she was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.

So because Amanda Seyfried played Elizabeth Holmes so well in Jennifer Lawrence’s eyes (and many other people, considering she won an Emmy for that performance), the Hunger Games actress didn’t feel like it was worth her trying to put her own spin on Holmes. Lawrence added that she did try Holmes by trying on “a hundred outfits” involving black turtlenecks, but she ended up just looking like Seyfried or late Apple co-founder Steve Jobs. It’s ironic she mentioned the latter considering that Bad Blood was acquired by Apple Original Films in December 2021.

So after over half a decade of planning to play Elizabeth Holmes, Jennifer Lawrence has bid farewell to the role. What does this mean for Bad Blood? Presumably Adam McKay still intends to make the movie and will simply have to find another actress to replace Lawrence. Granted, it’s possible that McKay might feel the same way as Lawrence about tackling this project after seeing The Dropout, but I imagine Apple is still keen on getting Bad Blood off the ground.

Besides, there’s room for Bad Blood to expand beyond what was covered in the original book and The Dropout. In January 2022, Elizabeth Holmes was found guilty on four counts of defrauding investors, three of those concerning wire fraud, and the final one for conspiracy to commit wire fraud. She’ll be sentenced on November 18. If Adam McKay is willing to rework the Bad Blood script in the near future and Apple is willing to wait a little longer, that could provide enough material to improve its chances of standing out.

Jennifer Lawrence fans will be able to watch her in Causeway starting Friday, and No Hard Feelings is slated for June 16, 2023. Find out what other 2023 new movie releases are on the way and keep checking back with us for updates on Lawrence’s career.

Jennifer Lawerence says that she used to get stoned after ‘Hunger Games’ premieres

Jennifer Lawrence clearly isn’t a midnight toker. Last year, the Oscar-winning Silver Linings Playbook star raised eyebrows when she revealed that she got high for real while playing a Mary Jane fan in Adam McKay’s end-of-days comedy, Don’t Look Up. In a new interview with The New York Times, Lawerence said that she was under the influence as far back as the first Hunger Games blockbuster.

“The boys and I would always go back to our hotel and just drink whiskey and get stoned,” Lawrence revealed, referring to her co-stars in that franchise, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth. As she explained, that was the trio’s way of coping with the intense public spotlight that followed them during the making of that four-film franchise, and which shone especially brightly at the crowd-packed premieres.

But Lawrence insisted that she’s not falling back on old habits after walking the red carpets for her latest film Causeway, which debuts Nov. 4 on Apple TV+ following its Toronto International Film Festival premiere in September. “My mother-in-law’s going to love this,” she joked. “I don’t do it anymore, I’m a mom!” (Lawrence had her first child with husband, Cooke Maroney, in February.)

Lawrence says that Causeway marks the beginning of her career second act — an act where she’s more firmly in control over her choices. “I had let myself be hijacked,” she observed about her post-Hunger Games run of movies that included divisive films like Dark Phoenix and Red Sparrow.

“I was like, ‘Oh no, you guys are here because I’m here and I’m here because you’re here,’” she said of how her Hunger Games fans reacted to those movies. “‘Wait, who decided that this was a good movie?’”

One film in particular stands out as a mistake when Lawrence glances in her rearview: the 2016 sci-fi drama Passengers, which paired her with newly ascendent Marvel Studios star Chris Pratt. Although their combined star power pushed the movie to a $300 million worldwide gross, critics and audiences alike panned Passengers for its creepy storyline and controversial ending.

Reflecting on the film now, Lawrence revealed that a famous friend tried warning her away from making it. “Adele told me not to do it! She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to her.” Making movies like Passengers inevitably took its toll. “I felt like more of a celebrity than an actor,” she admitted. “Cut off from my creativity, my imagination.”

Fortunately, producing and starring in Causeway reignited that creative fire and — along with her new family — has helped her distance herself from her Hunger Games alter ego. “Jennifer Lawrence is Katniss Everdeen, I guess,” she said about her choice to change her legal name to Jennifer Maroney. “I was born with the name Jennifer Lawrence, but that got taken from me when I was 21 and I never got it back….That name already belongs to them.”

Meanwhile, the future of The Hunger Games belongs to West Side Story star, Rachel Zegler, who is starring in the upcoming prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, due in theaters on Nov. 17, 2023. “That makes me feel old as mold,” Lawerence said. “I remember being 21 and thinking, ‘My God, one day they’ll redo and remake them. But I’ll be so old by then! I’ll be dead!’”

Causeway premieres Friday, Nov. 4 on Apple TV+.

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