Articles about Jennifer Lawrence
Influences | Jennifer Lawrence, actress
Article originally appeared at: http://www.courier-journal.com/...
June 6th, 2010
I know this is going to sound weird, but when I was little I'd watch "Lizzie McGuire," the Hilary Duff show. I'd watch her do everything and then act it out around my house. I'd do a line like her and then say, "'Dad, what do you think?"
If anyone sees Jodie Foster in "Taxi Driver," you know that she's not human. She's such an incredible actress -- there's really not words. And then when I met her [working on "The Beaver"], I found that she's also brilliant. She's the most down-to-earth person I've met since I became an actress -- it's like someone forgot to tell her she's famous.
When I read "Crime and Punishment," it was the first time I imagined myself as a character. I try to read that book every year, when I need to cry.
I was this hyper 16-year-old, bouncing off the walls. But here's Charlize Theron, and she's the exact same way. She's running around talking to everybody -- but as soon as they call "action," she's dropping to her knees and sobbing. I was like, "Okay, I can do that."
P.T. Anderson is one of the best directors who ever lived. "Boogie Nights" was his second movie and it's a classic -- one of the best ... that's ever been made.
Gary Oldman was in "True Romance," where he played this crazy Jamaican pimp. Then he was in "The Dark Knight" as the police detective with a mustache. He's the definition of a chameleon. That's my dream, not to be held back by a genre -- having to be funny, and then having to be dramatic. I don't ever want to be held back by anything.
Louisvillian Jennifer Lawrence will bring her new movie "Winter's Bone," to the Flyover film festival next Sunday.
