Jennifer Lawrence Lets Sex Jokes Fly in Raunchy ‘No Hard Feelings,’ Her First R-Rated Comedy
variety.comRebecca Rubin Film and Media Reporter Jennifer Lawrence brought her comedic chops to Las Vegas. The Oscar-winner attended CinemaCon to promote the raunchy R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings,” which played to huge laughs at the annual movie theater trade show that’s currently unfolding at Caesars Palace.
Director Gene Stupnitsky praised Lawrence as “a true comedy natural” in her first R-rated comedic role. He says the film is about two helicopter parents who hire a woman to “date” their introverted 19-year-old son so he doesn’t leave for college as a virgin. “And this is based on your life, right?” Lawrence jabbed at Stupnitsky, who retorted, “No, it’s actually based off a Craigslist ad.” She tried again. “But you were a virgin for, like, a crazy long time.
You were 26?” The filmmaker sighed before rolling an extended clip from the trailer. “Jennifer, you’re so hilarious. I wrote this part for you.” Lawrence stars in “No Hard Feelings” as an Uber driver named Maddie Barker, who is forced to resort to plan b after her car is repossessed.
So she accepts an unusual Craigslist posting, where her new employers are the wealthy parents of an academically gifted but socially clueless teenage boy named Percy.
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