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| | Jennifer Lawrence: 'I had such a feminist meltdown about changing my name' | | Added 744 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Jennifer Lawrence is currently promoting Causeway, which streams on AppleTV. She produced the film and shot half of it before the pandemic and half of it during the pandemic. She was also pregnant during the second part of filming. She plays a veteran dealing with a traumatic brain injury. She?s incredibly proud of the film, and she hopes this marks a new era of her career, where she?s doing smaller, more character-driven films. To promote Causeway, she chatted with the New York Times about the shift she?s made in the past three years. She stepped away from the limelight, met Cooke Maroney, married him and gave birth to their son Cy Maroney. She?s spent a lot of time just? existing as a normal person without all of the celebrity rigmarole. Some highlights from the NYT:
Why she left CAA: Some of her representatives had steered her away from smaller material like ?Causeway,? warning that her audience wouldn?t understand. ?I found out that a lot of filmmakers that I really loved and admired had scripts that weren?t even reaching me,? she said? in August 2018, as she wrapped reshoots for the ?X-Men? film ?Dark Phoenix,? she left CAA, the agency that represented her for 10 years. ?I had let myself be hijacked,? she said.
The film that changed her career in a negative way: ??Passengers,? I guess. 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.?
Some celebrities grow so isolated by their celebrity that you can no longer detect anything real in their screen performances. ?That can happen. And that was going to happen to me.?
On Causeway: ?I obviously cannot relate to risking my life for my country but I can understand, reading ?Causeway,? why I?m getting so emotional about somebody who doesn?t feel like they belong anywhere unless they?re on a schedule.?
Fear of commitment: ?When you don?t fully know yourself, you have no idea where to put yourself. And then I met my husband, and he was like, ?Put yourself here.? I was like, ?That feels right, but what if it?s not??? In retrospect, Lawrence realized she was having commitment anxiety, ?and it was coming out of my performance in all these different creative ways, but I wasn?t conscious of it. Then I went back, and when I?m home with my husband making this family, I?m so happy I stayed. I?m so happy I didn?t freak out and cancel the wedding and run away and go, ?I?ll never be taken down!??
Changing her name to ?Jenna Maroney? (like the 30 Rock character): ?I thought I was the only one who noticed that! God, I had such a feminist meltdown about changing my name because it?s my identity, it?s the first thing I?m given. I was born with the name Jennifer Lawrence, but that got taken from me when I was 21 and I never got it back. So it didn?t feel like I was giving up anything. That name already belongs to them.?
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| | Lauren Graham on her breakup: 'I?m in a better place, but it's still just a shame' | | Added 744 days ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Lauren Graham?s fourth book, Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Don?t Want to Forget to Remember, is coming out later this month. She wrote it during the pandemic to stave off the dread of the virus and lack of work. It also helped her get over her breakup with Peter Krause. Lauren and Peter were together for almost 12 years before they spilt in the summer of 2021. Lauren worked hard not to let the breakup up ?flatten? her, so she focused on the good things she had going in her life and writing the book. Now that she?s had a little time to process it, she realizes she?s in ?a better place,? but she?s still sad about it ending.
Lauren Graham definitely has more to say.
The actress, producer and writer ? whose charm and quick wit have resulted in three New York Times bestsellers ? is releasing another collection of essays about her life and career, Have I Told You This Already? Stories I Dont Want to Forget to Remember, available Nov. 15.
Writing also became a good distraction for Graham when her almost 12-year relationship with actor Peter Krause, whom she began datingafter the two costarred as siblings on Parenthood, ended during the summer of 2021.
I knew I was resilient because I just always have been, she says. You take your knocks and dont complain. Thats how I was always raised.
Somewhere in that is a year like this where I just was not going to let [the breakup] flatten me, she continues. I was like, Okay, well, look at all the good stuff I have, and look at all the good times, and Im going to write this book. Thank goodness I have these outlets and these stories to tell.
Though they lived together and Graham helped raise the actors now-20-year-old son Roman from a previous relationship, the two preferred to keep the romance out of the spotlight.
I think part of all the positives of having known each other for a really long time were there, she says. And one of the negatives of that is we almost came into a relationship as people in their 40s without asking any of the questions people in their 40s should be asking. We had such a good time together that I didnt maybe ask some fundamental questions about What are your values and what do you envision? and those more grown-up things. And then they just caught up with us.
After the split, Graham rented a beach home and then returned to L.A. to focus on her work.
Im less on the run, says the actress, acknowledging that the passing of time has been the greatest gift. Any pain still really has its moments. I was a contributor in the life of his child, and so were connected. And yes, Im in a better place, but its still just a shame. Its just sad to me.
[From People]
I hate to say this but now the gossip in me is awakened. Like, what were the fundamental questions Lauren forgot to ask? I was bummed when Lauren and Peter broke up because I like both of them very much and they seemed well suited for each other. I loved their low-key vibe to the relationship everyone knew they were together, but they kept it quiet. But prior, I just assumed they were a pandemic causality, especially when Peter got used to living without Lauren when she was stuck in Canada filming during Covid. And maybe they were, maybe that?s when they finally thought to ask these questions they?d ignored for so long. I can see what Lauren?s saying about people in their 40s or older just assuming they are all on the same page and forgetting they still have decades to consider how their partner factors in. And I agree, it is a shame. But I?m glad Lauren?s in a better place and can see that.
Lauren talked about what she?s looking for in her next relationship. She acknowledges she has everything she wants in life so she?s just looking for a good time, someone who is funny and kind. She must be in a better place if she?s open to what might be next. And if no guy comes along, it?s not an issue because Lauren?s already working on her fifth book, ?a Bridget Jones-y thing set in Los Angeles.? I don?t mean to be a jerk, but I kind of hope the love of Lauren?s life takes his time because I want to read the LA B. Jones story.
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