She’s stumbled into a new career path.
Dramatic actress Jennifer Lawrence was “born to do hard R comedies,” Cameron Diaz assures her in the latest issue of Interview Magazine. “It might be your sweet spot.”
Lawrence, the mag’s summer cover star, gets down and dirty with the “Bad Teacher” actress as they lament the lack of “laugh-out-loud funny” flicks ahead of the Friday release of Lawrence’s raunchy comedy “No Hard Feelings.”
“We just need the laugh right now, because we’re living in a nightmare,” Lawrence, 32, admits in the interview.
In “No Hard Feelings,” Lawrence plays a financially struggling Uber driver who “dates” an awkward teenager at the behest of his parents, who offer her a Buick Regal.
“Whatever I was feeling while making that movie, if that’s my sweet spot, then I don’t ever want to do anything else,” the Oscar winner told Diaz, who could be considered a raunchy comedy icon herself with a resume that includes “Sex Tape” and “There’s Something About Mary.”
Lawrence, on the other hand, is historically a heroine. Her credits include Katniss Everdeen in “The Hunger Games,” Mystique in the “X-Men” films, and the leading lady of several other dramas.
Aside from her hysterical role in 2021’s “Don’t Look Up,” Lawrence is a bit of a comedy novice, but hopes to fill a space within the genre.
“I’ve always wanted to do comedy, and I’ve been asked a million times,” she said. “I was never against it, but you’ve seen the movies that come out. I don’t want to name anything specifically, but there hasn’t been anything that funny.”
Lawrence revealed she would be “open” to dipping her toes into the world of television, but said she has also considered “dipping out” of the industry entirely since giving birth last year to her first child, Cy, with husband Cooke Maroney.
“I think about dipping out a lot when I’m working. I’m like, ‘I’m not going to be doing this forever. I’m tired. This is hard,’” she explained, but then she reads a can’t-miss script that ropes her back in.
“Of course, I’ve contemplated having a child that’s being born into a lifestyle that’s different from his friends. But kids have advantages and disadvantages when they’re born, all of them,” she added.
With the limelight comes the paparazzi and their nonstop shutters, but Lawrence and Diaz admit their movie star reputations don’t prevent them from going about their lives as if they’re anonymous.
“I do this Jedi mind-trick on people, where I make them feel weird for thinking it’s weird to see a movie star. I’m like, ‘Yeah, what?’” the “Silver Linings Playbook” star joked.
“I’m at your Starbucks. Who cares?” Diaz chimed in.
But, Lawrence confessed, “it would be nice not to have to think so much about what I’m wearing” — even unflattering slip-on shoes would be considered a fashion statement in a media frenzy.
“I’m like, I’m not making a statement. I’m wearing flats,” scoffed the actress, whose most recent fashion gaffe was wearing flip flops at the Cannes Film Festival last month.
The “No Hard Feelings” star is still learning not to care what others think of her style, assured by Diaz that the attitude “comes with age.”
“So many great things are coming with age,” Lawrence said. “I don’t know what I was so scared of.”