Jennifer Lawrence on Raunchy Comedy ‘No Hard Feelings’: ‘Everybody Will Be Offended By This Film’
variety.comNaman Ramachandran Oscar-winning actor Jennifer Lawrence is gunning for the laughs in raunchy comedy “No Hard Feelings.” “I think it’s time for a good old-fashioned laugh and it really is hard to make a comedy where you’re not offending people,” Lawrence told Sky News on Wednesday. “Everybody in some sense will be offended by this film — you’re welcome.” In the film, which is rated R in the U.S.
and 15 in the U.K., Lawrence stars as a Montauk Uber driver facing bankruptcy who accepts a Craigslist ad to date and seduce an awkward 19-year-old (Andrew Barth Feldman) whose helicopter parents don’t want him leaving for college as a virgin. “We need to be able to engage with being offended.
There was and is like a big overcorrect because we realized there were so many things that we were joking about that we shouldn’t be,” Feldman told Sky News. “I think this movie does a really good job of continuing to push limits while still engaging with the conversation that the things that these people are doing are wrong and not a good idea.” Lawrence added: “Something we learned from the old-time comedies is mean comedy is not really funny … making somebody feel bad about themselves – other than me making fun of me.
But the way that we did it is fine, we figured it out.” Gene Stupnitsky directs “No Hard Feelings” from a script he wrote with John Phillips.
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