After that came Red Sparrow, and however underrated or not you might find the movie, the simple truth is that it was not a picture that meshed with the tastes of the day. The real surprise is that Paramount backed it at all. A movie almost designed to be divisive though, it should be no surprise that it would misfire at the box office. That gave us mother! In my opinion a maximalist masterpiece in which she delivers one of her very best performances to date. Russell, which nearly became a franchise all their own, before opting for a few wild choices in the latter stages, in an obvious attempt to exert her own will, and angle back towards the darker choices that marked out her indie period. Franchise work is the order of the current era in Hollywood, but she manages to fold in repeated collaborations with David O. Nonetheless, she forges a farily impressive career for herself, even in ignorance. I mean, she's twenty-something, she doesn't know the rules, or what the pressures might be. At that point, as with many actors when they first hit proper movie-stardom, she becomes subject to inertia, and industry appetites. Obviously, there's the phase before she hits it big, when she was known as something of an indie darling, but The Hunger Games changed all that, and her career veered into directions she hadn't exactly planned on, despite being aware of the movie's obvious potential. Clearly, the intention is that that be the A24 flick.īut, lets talk about that earlier phase. All of which is to say, that Dark Phoenix is a holdover from an older phase of her career, and not useful as her "comeback" film. Then, just recently, as I think has already been discussed, Lawrence signed on with A24 for the Scott Rudin produced debut film of hot shot theatre director Lila Neugebauer, which starts shooting this month I think. A few months later she established her own production company, and shortly thereafter inked a first look deal with upstart indie studio Makeready, the passion project of former New Regency President, Brad Weston. In that time she parted ways with her agents at CAA, and signed exclusively with Rick Yorn at LBI. Lawrence hasn't shot a movie in nearly two years, and a year ago she made that "break" official, following the release of Red Sparrow. In truth, her role amounts to little more than an extended cameo, and it seems quite evident that her PR and management teams don't want to make much more out of it than that. Any musing about why there hasn't been much talk about Lawrence in that movie relates to her having done virtually no press for it, and it not really being considered her movie. I'll just start by dispensing with Dark Phoenix. Meant to comment on this yesterday, but only just found the time.
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