Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor Jennifer Lawrence may be an Oscar-winning actor, but she hasn’t let all that fame and fortune go to her head. “You immediately forget she’s a movie star when you meet her,” says Laura Benanti, who appears opposite Lawrence in the new R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings.” “She’s so down to earth.” Lawrence stars in “No Hard Feelings” as an Uber driver who agrees to date a wealthy couple’s (Benanti and Matthew Broderick) socially awkward 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) in exchange for a car. “Sure, at first I was nervous because it’s like, ‘How are you so beautiful?’” Benanti said of Lawrence. “But then I was immediately laughing with her. She’s so funny, silly and a hard worker. She’s not a princess. She is comfortable being uncomfortable.”
Jennifer Lawrence And ‘No Hard Feelings’ Co-Star Andrew Barth Feldman On Preparing For ‘Weird’ Nude Scenes
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Jennifer Lawrence is keeping it real while addressing that “No Hard Feelings” nude scene with her 21-year-old co-star.
The 32-year-old actress, portraying a woman who responds to a Craigslist ad to date a shy teenager, told People that she “took a deep breath and then I disrobed” before appearing nude on camera in the upcoming raunchy rom-com.
“[It’s] definitely a weird and uncomfortable thing to do for any human being on the planet Earth,” Lawrence’s co-star, Andrew Barth Feldman, agreed about bracing himself for the nudity.
“But it was so incredibly safe,” he noted. “Everyone was so kind, constantly checking in that we were okay.”
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In the film, Lawrence stars as Maddie, a struggling Uber driver who desperately responds to an unusual Craigslist ad from two “wealthy helicopter parents looking for someone to ‘date’ their introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he leaves for college,” as per the synopsis. “To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers the awkward Percy is no sure thing.”
The stripped-down scene unfolds when Maddie takes Percy skinny-dipping at night, later discovering that other beachgoers have stolen their clothes.
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“I never second guessed it,” Feldman told People of the scene, in which his character ends up clinging to the hood of a car nude. “Much like everything in this movie, you just have to do it, and then it will be done.”
“Because you’re being forced to,” Lawrence joked.
“No Hard Feelings” hits theatres on June 23.
‘No Hard Feelings’ cast slams film’s backlash: ‘It’s a cautionary tale’
full-frontal nudity.The premise revolves around 32-year-old Maddie (Lawrence), who is hired by 19-year-old Percy’s (Andrew Barth Feldman) parents to date him. The stars of the flick clapped back at the recent backlash to the movie’s plot and rated-R raunchiness.Percy’s overprotective (and wealthy) parents are played by Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick.“It’s a cautionary tale,” Benanti, 43, explained to the Hollywood Reporter about the hate.“If you are a helicopter parent who puts your child in such a bubble, they do not know how to exist outside of that bubble, you are going to make the exact opposite and insane choice, which is what they are doing here.“I feel like it is a very satirical look at what can happen if you do not give your children a longer leash to figure things out for themselves,” the “Nashville” star continued.
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Marc Malkin Senior Film Awards, Events & Lifestyle Editor SPOILER ALERT: This story contains descriptions of specific scenes in “No Hard Feelings,” in theaters now. In “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a 32-year-old Uber driver in the Hamptons whose car has been repossessed because she failed to pay her property taxes. She ends up answering a Craigslist ad posted by a wealthy couple (Laura Benanti and Matthew Broderick), offering a car in return for a woman to date their socially awkward 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) to prepare him for college life. The movie is a raunchy R-rated comedy that sees Lawrence’s character, Maddie, fully naked on a beach.
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Zack Sharf Digital News Director In the upcoming comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Jennifer Lawrence plays a down-on-her-luck Uber driver who accepts a job trying to seduce a 19-year-old whose helicopter parents don’t want him heading off to college as a virgin. The task of playing the Oscar winner’s male lead in a raunchy R-rated comedy fell to Andrew Barth Feldman, best known until now for his stint on Broadway in “Dear Evan Hanson.” Feldman was already a student at Harvard University when the offer to join Lawrence in “No Hard Feelings” was made. “I mean, when Andrew left his audition, the door closed and we all looked at each other and we were like, ‘That’s our — that’s Percy,”” Lawrence recently told Entertainment Tonight. “Then they were like there’s one complication, he’s supposed to go to Harvard, and we were like, ‘Is that a joke?’ He was fully the character, so I called him and said, ‘Andrew, I have really bad news you’re not gonna be able to finish your semester at Harvard.’ He’s gonna have to defer, or whatever college school words are.”
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