THE RUNDOWN
- Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t at this evening’s Critics Choice Awards.
- She was not nominated for her performance in Die My Love. The film itself did not receive any Critics Choice nods.
- Lawrence is up for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama at next Sunday’s Golden Globes.
Jennifer Lawrence is up for a Golden Globe next Sunday, but for this evening’s Critics Choice Awards, the Die My Love star was absent from the red carpet. Neither Lawrence nor Die My Love has any nominations, giving the star no pressing reason to attend the Santa Monica, California ceremony.
Lawrence, who has a Golden Globe nomination for Best Performance by a Female Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, recently sat down with Leonardo DiCaprio for Variety’s Actors on Actors. DiCaprio asked her what drew her to the project, in which Lawrence plays a new mother struggling with postpartum depression.
The recommendation came from a legend in the industry, Lawrence told DiCaprio: “Martin Scorsese had read the book in his book club and he was like, ‘You should make this into a movie and star in it.’ And then when I was reading it, I really couldn’t understand how it would be a movie. I felt like the author, Ariana Harwicz, was able to describe the indescribable grave depression of an identity crisis, but really poetically being lost in a forest and these visuals and metaphors. I couldn’t crack how to make it a movie, and I didn’t want to go back to Marty and be like, ‘I don’t get it, try someone else.’ I think I realized that it’s poetry, it’s not a literal story. Then it clicked that Lynne Ramsey would be the only [director for this]. I think she’s a poet.
She added, “Lynne changed a lot. She made the lead couple be new to town, which they’re not in the book. That adds a huge element to my character’s depression. She’s pacing like a tiger in a cage, and that added a lot more of the isolation that I think a lot of new parents have. Like, what is my life now?”
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