Jennifer Lawrence Reveals That She’s ‘Starstruck’ by Jessica Simpson & How She Would Freak If They Met

“To me, the biggest celebrities successful the satellite are, like, Pete Davidson,” Jennifer Lawrence says erstwhile speaking to W Magazine for its 2023 Best Performances issue. Jennifer, 32, heads into the awards amusement play with rave reviews implicit her relation successful Causeway, but to the Academy Award-winner, and erstwhile W asked if she was ever “starstruck,” Jennifer named the 1 prima that would permission her speechless. “When Ariana Grande was successful my past film, Don’t Look Up, I was photographed with her, and I afloat look similar a vigor contention winner. I would beryllium starstruck if I saw Jessica Simpson. That would sound maine over.”

“She made a video for my day 1 time,” said Jennifer, with a gleam of pride. This benignant of position has endeared Jennifer to her fans. She besides told W magazine that 1991’s Father of The Bride (starring Steve Martin, Diane Keaton, and Kimberly Williams) ever makes her cry. “Not erstwhile they get married, but erstwhile helium sees her arsenic a small girl, and she’s sitting astatine the table, and she’s like, ‘Mommy, Daddy, I met a antheral successful Rome, and we’re getting married.’ But I’m truthful delicate present that I tin hardly ticker thing with children oregon animals.”

Jessica Simpson (Shutterstock)

Jennifer got a accidental to amusement that sensitivity successful her caller film, Causeway. In the A24/Apple Original Films feature, she plays Lynsey, “a subject technologist who has returned to the U.S. from Afghanistan with a debilitating encephalon wounded aft an IED explosion,” per Deadline. “When she returns location to New Orleans, she has to look memories adjacent much aching and formative than those she had successful service: a reckoning with her childhood. She yet connects with James (Brian Tyree Henry), and dilatory they commencement to trust connected each different for institution and solace. James, it turns out, is besides suppressing his ain past trauma. Together, they larn astir coming to presumption and moving forward.”

Jamie Hawkesworth

Part of preparing for this relation progressive Jennifer and the feline connecting with existent veterans to get their perspectives, frankincense amended forming the characters connected screen. “It was immensely adjuvant to conscionable unthinkable heroes who are successful akin circumstances,” she said during a sheet during Deadline’s Contenders Film: Los Angeles event successful December 2022. “And we had assistance with carnal therapists who were successful the movie and helped maine connected however to move. It was highly informative, and astir of all, we wanted to correspond [soldiers] correctly.”

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