It’s not easy to play in an apocalyptic film while keeping a certain lightness. This is the challenge that Jennifer Lawrence took up by accepting one of the main roles of the burlesque comedy Don’t Look Up: Cosmic Denial by Adam McKay, available on Netflix since December 24, 2021. And if there is one that has made it difficult for him, it is not Leonardo DiCaprio, Rob Morgan or Timothée Chalamet … or even Tomer Sisley , who joined the adventure. It was Jonah Hill, who plays the insufferable son of Meryl Streep onscreen, who gave him a hard time.
It was really really complicated for me
In an interview with the magazine Vanity Fair, Jennifer Lawrence actually explains that she had trouble keeping her seriousness in front of her funny colleague “It was really really complicated for me to shoot with Jonah, without ruining every scene by laughing, she remembered. We even gave him a whole day to improve his way of insulting me. It was unbelievable. Jonah and Meryl are the only people capable of this kind of improvisation. He is a great master of comedy. “
In Don’t Look Up, Jennifer Lawrence and Leonardo DiCaprio play two scientists who discover that an asteroid will destroy our planet, and embark on a gigantic media tour to warn everyone. At the time of the promotion of the film, the heroine was pregnant with her companion, art dealer, Cooke Maroney. But she is not the only one to have struggled during this time. Jonah Hill has also had his fair share of misunderstandings – karma, perhaps?
She’s so cool she wasn’t even upset
“In interviews, I kept saying that working with Meryl Streep, I realized that she was really ‘The GOAT’ [The Greatest of all time, la meilleure de tous les temps], he said in the Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show. And then today in a press conference she said, ‘You know Jonah is so comfortable with me that he kept calling me’ the goat ‘. [la chèvre] the whole week’. And she’s so cool that she wasn’t even offended by that nickname! She just thought I liked her and called her a goat.“There was indeed something to make her … well, you know the rest.