No Hard Feelings director Gene Stupnitsky wrote the 🐻roඣle of Maddie specifically for Jennifer Lawrence.
"I didn’t know she would do it, but I wrote it for her," Stupnitsky tells for its new issue – which is out on newsstands on May 25. "We thought it was interesting to make the character ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚangry. There’s a rage in her that I don’t think she’s fully aware of, and the mask drops when she’s with Percy."
The comedy-drama follows a hard-up delivery driver as she answers a bizarre Craigslist post by two parents, looking to hire a girlfriend for their socially awkward son, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman),ꦡ before he heads to college.
"The characters came from the circumstances," explai♓ns Stupnitsky. "Who is the woman who answers this ad? How desperate is she?"
Maddie is an Uber driver on the br𝔉ink of losing her home and car, so it's safe to say she's pretty desperate. Percy's parents offer her a Buick Regal if she agrees to "date his brains out" and help him get out of his shell.
The cast includes Matthew Broderick as Percy's father, Lauren Benanti a🐲s Percy's mother, Natalie Morales, Scott MacArthur, Hasan Minha, Kyle Mooney, and Ebon Moss-Bachrach.
Check out our ᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚexclusive look at Lawrence in the new movie above, alongside Moss-Bachrach's character.
Stupnitsky previously told that the idea stemmed from a real Craigslist sent to him by producers Marc♉ Provissiero and Naomi Odenkirk. "I read it, and I thought, 'This is wild. Who is the woman that answers this ad?' And I thought, 'Oh, that'll be a great role for my friend Jennifer Lawrence."
No Hard Feelings is out in cinemas on June 23, 202♑3. This is just a snippet of our interview in the♍ new issue of , which features Christopher Nolan's epic Oppenheimer on the cover. The magazine hits shelves this Thursday, May 25. Check out the covers below:
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