‘No Hard Feelings’ Actor Laura Benanti Gushes Over ‘Funny’ and ‘Silly’ Jennifer Lawrence: ‘She’s Not a Princess’
variety.comMarc 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.” In one much-buzzed-about scene, Lawrence is completely naked during an epic fight on the beach. “She’s hilarious and she’s a Dior model who is like a full dummy in the best possible way,” Benanti says. “During a break, she’d be like, ‘I’m going to get grilled cheese.
You want one?’ I was like, ‘If that’s how you look by eating grilled cheese, yes, I’ll some, please.’” While the film is R-rated, Benanti’s character doesn’t take part in the movie’s raunchy moments.
Even so, the Tony-winner said, “My parents absolutely are not allowed to see it. I would die immediately. I would crumble to dust.” Benanti spoke with Variety just a couple of weeks after an exclusive report that she and Sterling K.
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