This Friday, June 23, it hits theaters. ‘Without bad rolls’, an adult comedy starring Jennifer Lawrence. The actress, who also produces the film, returns to the big screen after a couple of years away from the industry in which she has been her mother. A retirement that she, she confesses, she did not plan to leave so soon… but the script of this fun and hooligan film made her change her mind.
“I never thought of retiring permanently from Hollywood. I had planned to return at some point, but it just wasn’t going to work anytime soon. I was going to be out of work for at least another year. But then, when I read the script… I think we were on the set four months later,” recalls Lawrence in an interview with CulturaOcio.com during his visit to Madrid to promote the film.
In addition to her return to theaters, ‘No bad vibes’ marks the debut of an Oscar-winning actress in 2012 for ‘The good side of things’ in a pure and hard comedy. A challenge for which she felt very supported by a “magnificent” script and, above all, by the director and co-writer of the film Gene Stupnitsky, her personal friend who is full of praise for the actress.
“Jennifer is amazing in this movie. She’s so funny and of course I’m biased, but I honestly think it’s one of her best performances. You know comedies don’t get a lot of shots at awards, but I think she should win every the awards. It’s great both emotionally and comically,” says the director of ‘Good Guys’
In ‘No bad vibes’ Jennifer Lawrence plays Maddie, a thirty-something woman with a precarious employment situation who, when she is about to lose her childhood home, discovers a curious job advertisement: some wealthy controlling parents are looking for someone to date. her introverted 19-year-old son, Percy, before he goes off to college. To her surprise, Maddie soon discovers that Percy’s clumsiness isn’t so clear.
Thus, in a comedy key, the film puts on the table a problem “very real” as is the case of young people, and also the not so young, who live isolated within their technological bubble and have more and more difficulties to establish authentic “real” relationships beyond social networks, ‘apps’ and the virtual world .
“I think there’s a kind of phantom connection that we create with social media, where we have the appearance of being very connected through it, but we really can’t be further from each other,” says co-star Andrew Barth Feldman, who believes that the bubble of isolation and overprotection by his parents in which his character Percy is trapped “is also built around most of the young people of my generation, especially in the United States.”
And precisely derived from that isolation, another problem that the film addresses is how the first contact of young people with sex, their first notions of sexual education, come through porn and even get to the idea that they have seen it on their mobile phones. or computers is how real sex should be.
“Absolutely! Yes, it’s a big problem. You’re born with an iPhone in your hand and that’s scary,” says the actor, who denounces that on the internet “the impression given to young people is that sex has to be a certain way or even have a right to it. “And that can turn into something violent, scary or at least disappointing compared to what the real connection of two people must be,” he concludes.