‘Silver Linings Playbook’ Execs Thought J. Law Outshined Bradley Cooper

A decade after profitable an Oscar, Jennifer Lawrence continues to be getting her flowers for her position in Silver Linings Playbook.

Bruce Cohen, a producer on the 2012 movie, recalled the particular second on set when solid and crew realized the magnitude of the younger star’s expertise. On the Wednesday, November 29, episode of the “Hollywood Gold” podcast, Cohen, 62, recalled filming a scene the place the 2 important characters, Tiffany and Pat, (performed by Lawrence and Bradley Cooper, respectively), get right into a heated argument.

“So Jen arrives, we’re doing that scene outside the house where they argue,” Cohen remembered. “At the end of the first take, [there was] this moment of realization on all of our parts that if anything she’s better than Bradley and better than [Robert De Niro]. What she did right out of the gate was so special and so exciting.”

After the take, Cohen mentioned that Cooper, now 48, “had this look on his face [of] ‘holy shit.’” Cohen added that De Niro, now 80, was equally impressed.

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Cohen additionally pointed to one of many movie’s most memorable scenes as additional proof of Lawrence’s apparent expertise. The scene — which the producer known as Lawrence’s “tour de force” second — happens when Tiffany will get into an argument with De Niro’s character, Pat Sr., and makes use of sports activities scores to show her level.

“[Writer and director] David [O. Russell] comes up to me in the morning and he hands me pages, and I say, ‘What are these?’” Cohen recalled. “He said, ‘These are a new scene I’ve written because I’ve seen what Jen can do and I understand now what we’re dealing with, who we have here and what her talent is.’”

Cohen added: “That scene was not in the script. David wrote that scene over the first weekend after watching Jennifer Lawrence do her thing.”

Now 33, Lawrence was simply 22 when she landed the position of younger widow Tiffany within the dramedy, which was nominated for eight Academy Awards. Lawrence gained the movie its solely Oscar, taking dwelling the trophy for finest actress in 2013. She was beforehand nominated in the identical class for 2010’s Winter’s Bone and went on to obtain nominations for her roles in 2013’s American Hustle and 2015’s Joy.

Most just lately, she shocked followers along with her position within the rom-com No Hard Feelings, which hit theaters in June. In the movie, Lawrence portrays Maddie, a lady who helps a pair of helicopter dad and mom carry their introverted son out of his shell earlier than he begins faculty.

“I had just had a baby, so I definitely wasn’t planning on working,” the actress informed Good Morning America in June, explaining that she modified her thoughts after studying the script for No Hard Feelings. “It was just too funny. It was the funniest thing I had ever read.”

Lawrence welcomed son Cy with husband Cooke Maroney in February 2022.