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Jennifer Lawrence Teases More Of Her New Miss Piggy Movie

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Jennifer Lawrence is opening up more about the new film she’s producing based on screen icon, Miss Piggy.

Earlier this week, the Die, My Love star teased during an interview on the podcast Las Culturistas that she and fellow Oscar winner Emma Stone were co-producing a new film centred around the legendary Muppets character, which Tony recipient Cole Escola would write.

Naturally, this news was met with a lot of buzz, with Jimmy Fallon grilling her about it further when she stopped by The Tonight Show on Wednesday.

During the interview, Jen hailed Piggy as a “feminist icon”, and explained that the germ of the idea for the new movie came during lockdown, at a time when so-called “cancel culture” was being debated extensively, and a friend suggested: “It would be so funny if Miss Piggy got cancelled.”

“Now, that is not the plot [of the film], necessarily,” the former Hunger Games actor was quick to clarify. “But it got the wheels turning. [We realised], ’wait, there hasn’t actually been, like, a feminist Miss Piggy starring [role]. So I started producing it.”

She revealed she then turned to Emma Stone for help with co-producing as she considers herself more of an “ideas guy”, while the Poor Things star is both a “Muppets-head” and a “shark”.

“I went to her to be like, ‘what do we do?’,” Jennifer added. “So now, Cole is writing it, and they are perfect. And yeah!”

Asked if she’ll also star in the project, she replied: “I think so. I mean, I have to be. I mean, I want to be.”

Miss Piggy first shot to fame in the 1970s, when she was introduced as the resident diva on The Muppet Show.

In the decades since, she’s become one of the franchise’s most cherished stand-out characters, most recently appearing in 2021’s Muppets Haunted Mansion.

Next year, she’s set to share the screen with Sabrina Carpenter in a one-off special revival of The Muppet Show, commemorating 50 years since the first episode aired, which will be written by Emmy winner Seth Rogen.

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Robert Pattinson Thought He Met Jennifer Lawrence, Actually Just Watched Hunger Games

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Robert Pattinson has discovered that his memory of first meeting Jennifer Lawrence was wrong all along.

The pair star opposite each other in upcoming dark comedy-drama Die, My Love, and have been busy promoting the movie with appearances at the likes of Cannes and London Film Festival.

In a new interview with MUBI, the pair were recollecting when they first met, with Robert musing: “I think I met you at a Comic Con, at the Hard Rock Hotel.”

Cue, a confused looking Jennifer.

Turns out, Robert’s memory had deceived him, mixing up meeting the star in person with watching her on-screen persona, Katniss Everdeen.

“No, now I remember what it was,” he corrected himself. “That was when I was watching Hunger Games… I was watching it in a hotel room,” with Jennifer quipping, “By that measure a lot of people have met me!”

The actor starred as protagonist Katniss Everdeen in the dystopian film franchise for one of her breakout roles, with the character famously volunteering “as tribute” to save her sister from entering into the deadly game.

In Die, My Love, Jennifer stars as Grace, a woman who falls into postpartum psychosis while holed up in a remote house as her husband Jackson (Robert) goes off to work.

In an earlier press conference, reported by the Guardian, Jennifer spoke about drawing on her own experiences as a mother to help her in her role, also expressing the struggle of separating her own actions with her character Grace’s.

“There’s not really anything like postpartum,” she said. “It’s extremely isolating. The truth is extreme anxiety and extreme depression is isolating no matter where you are. You feel like an alien.”

The movie is directed by Scottish filmmaker Lynne Ramsay, who also picked apart unconventional threads of motherhood in acclaimed 2011 psychological drama We Need To Talk About Kevin, which starred Tilda Swinton.

Die, My Love is in cinemas on Friday 7 November.

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Jennifer Lawrence Reveals Which Popular Movie She Was ‘Immediately’ Rejected From

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Jennifer Lawrence rose to fame as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games film franchise, but her career could have taken a different path had she landed one big audition.

The Oscar winner recently revealed during an appearance on Spotify’s The Rewatchables”= podcast that she had auditioned for a role in Twilight.

“I auditioned for Twilight,” she said in the interview earlier this month. “They turned me down immediately. I didn’t even get a callback. But my life would’ve been totally different. I got Hunger Games, I think, like, a year later.”

But Lawrence said she almost didn’t accept the offer to play Katniss after witnessing the level of “fandom” surrounding the Twilight movies and its stars Kristen Stewart, Robert Pattinson and Taylor Lautner.

The first Twilight film premiered in 2008, and the final installment, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn — Part 2, was released in 2012. The first Hunger Games movie premiered in 2012.

“I almost didn’t do Hunger Games because Twilight had come out and that fandom had happened,” she said, adding that she was concerned that Hunger Games would bring a similar “level of fame.”

“I just assumed it was going to be like Twilight— the Twilight level of fame, and that was just never something I had in mind,” she said. “I wanted to do indies, I wanted to do good films, but I didn’t want to be the most famous person on the planet. That’s a very different life than what I pictured for myself.”

Lawrence added that she would have been “miserable” had she endured the media frenzy and tabloid fodder the Twilight actors dealt with while making the vampire film saga.

Jennifer Lawrence at the Los Angeles premiere of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.
Jennifer Lawrence at the Los Angeles premiere of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” on Monday, Nov. 18, 2013.

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Clearly, Lawrence’s casting in The Hunger Games film franchise was meant to be.

The No Hard Feelings actor told Variety in an article published earlier this month that she would “totally” return to the film franchise if given an opportunity.

“If Katniss ever could ever come back into my life, 100 percent,” she said.

Lawrence starred in all four Hunger Games installments from 2012 to 2015. She will not appear in an upcoming sequel for the franchise, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.

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Jennifer Lawrence Admits She Was An ‘Accidental Bully’ In High School

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Jennifer Lawrence admitted she was an “accidental bully” to someone in school and still keeps track of the person.

“I was an accidental bully because I pantsed this kid named Tyler,” the star said in an interview with E! News last week while promoting her new movie, No Hard Feelings.

“We were, like, pantsing people at a football game and I accidentally grabbed his underwear and he got really embarrassed,” Lawrence explained.

“I feel really bad, I like sometimes Google him,” she continued. “Just to be like, ‘You all right?’”

No hard feelings, Tyler? We’ll have to see.

The Hunger Games actor also said she was bullied herself by one girl, who she named with no remorse.

“This one girl named Meredith handed me a stack of invitations to her birthday party, but I was not invited,” she said, as her co-star Andrew Feldman gasped and exclaimed, “Oh my god!”

“She asked me to hand them out. Isn’t that so mean?” Lawrence said, adding: “It’s fine, I spit on them and threw them in the trash.”

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While Lawrence may or may not be drawing on her past school experiences for her new movie, she told Vogue last year “so many of my films in the past have been about my mother, my childhood”.

And now that she’s a new mom, she told the outlet, she wonders “what will happen now that I’ll be witnessing somebody else’s childhood”.

“And I wonder what he’s going to be talking about with his therapist,” she said. “She wouldn’t put me down. She kisses me on the mouth. She asked me not to go to college.”

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