Jennifer Lawrence returns to indie roots with post-hiatus ‘Causeway’

LONDON, Oct 8 (Reuters) – Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence performs a soldier combating PTSD and previous trauma in “Causeway”, an indie drama which additionally marks the Hollywood star’s debut as a producer.

The movie sees Lawrence’s character, Lynsey, coming back from Afghanistan with a debilitating mind damage sustained in an assault. Reluctantly returning to her hometown and her mom’s home to get well, she befriends an area automobile mechanic (performed by Brian Tyree Henry) and finds consolation and treatment within the unlikely friendship.

Directed by Lila Neugebauer, the film was shot earlier than the COVID-19 pandemic and put an finish to Lawrence’s transient break from appearing.

“I like Marvel films or superhero films as a lot as the following individual, however there was simply one thing that was so refreshing. I simply hadn’t seen one thing like that actually since ‘Winter’s Bone,'” she stated, referring to the 2010 film that gained Lawrence her first Oscar nomination.

“So I felt adamant that I actually, actually need to make this. I did not know when as a result of I used to be nonetheless, you already know, on my hiatus. After which after getting dinner with Lila, I simply knew that she was the individual, after which we had been capturing three months later,” Lawrence instructed Reuters on the movie’s London Movie Competition premiere on Saturday.

The pandemic allowed the movie crew to wonderful tune and sit with the film. Like her character, Lawrence, who grew to become a mom earlier this 12 months, stated she went by way of a metamorphosis.

“I began the movie after I was engaged. I got here again married and pregnant. And, you already know, I personally had such a special notion of staying, of house,” Lawrence stated, including that she was “completely” keen to supply extra films sooner or later.

“Causeway” begins streaming on Apple TV+ (AAPL.O) on Nov. 4.

Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Modifying by Leslie Adler

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