Jennifer Lawrence returns to indie roots with Causeway

Oscar-winner Jennifer Lawrence performs a soldier battling PTSD and previous trauma in Causeway, an indie drama which additionally marks the Hollywood star’s debut as a producer.

The movie sees Lawrence’s character, Lynsey, getting back from Afghanistan with a debilitating mind damage sustained in an assault. Reluctantly returning to her hometown and her mom’s home to get better, she befriends an area automotive mechanic (performed by Brian Tyree Henry) and finds consolation and remedy within the unlikely friendship.

Directed by Lila Neugebauer, the film was shot earlier than the Covid-19 pandemic and put an finish to Jennifer Lawrence’s transient break from performing.

“I love Marvel movies or superhero movies as much as the next person, but there was just something that was so refreshing. I just hadn’t seen something like that really since Winter’s Bone,” she mentioned, referring to the 2010 film that gained Lawrence her first Oscar nomination.

“So I felt adamant that I really, really want to make this. I didn’t know when because I was still, you know, on my hiatus. And then after getting dinner with Lila, I just knew that she was the person, and then we were shooting three months later,” the actor advised Reuters on the movie’s London Film Festival premiere on Saturday.

The pandemic allowed the movie group to tremendous tune and sit with the film. Like her character, Jennifer Lawrence, who grew to become a mom earlier this yr, mentioned she went by a metamorphosis.

“I started the film when I was engaged. I came back married and pregnant. And, you know, I personally had such a different perception of staying, of home,” Lawrence mentioned, including that she was “absolutely” keen to supply extra motion pictures sooner or later.

Causeway begins streaming on Apple TV+ on November 4.