Bradley Cooper Reveals His Mom Was a Consultant on “Joy”
“I just said yes right away!” he exclaims. The only ones who have her back are her ex and her childhood friend Jackie (Dascha Polanco from “Orange Is the New Black”).
But she may face stiff competition from Lawrence in her role as Joy Mangano, whose real-life story is told by the film.
Lawrence, 25, looks genuinely surprised when complimented about how unchanged she seems from our earlier interviews before the fame and Oscars.
She said: “It should be Brie Larson’s year. People react in amusing ways to my job, but at the end of the day, that’s all it is”.
The film stars several of Hollywood’s biggest actors, including Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro and Jennifer Lawrence, who plays Mangano. That has a lot to do with Lawrence’s portrayal (every performer is bound to pale in comparison to her bright performance), which in the film’s second half means showing Joy’s growth as a businessperson, and an equally deft and badass one at that (what with her misdemeanour crimes and skills at negotiating with and destroying the competition).
“I’ve always thought Jennifer has an old soul”, the quirky director says.
“It’s a amusing thing because from the moment we met, within a very short period of time, we were finishing each other’s sentences”, she said of Lawrence.
It’s hard to say what is most compelling-the story itself, the way it’s told onscreen or the performances of the star-studded cast.
Millionaire… Inventor Joy Mangano attends the world premiere of “Joy” at the Ziegfeld Theatre on Sunday, Dec. 13, 2015, in NY.
She also watched many hours of Mangano pitching her products on U.S. television. All three films co-star Bradley Cooper. Speaking with NPR, Lawrence said, “I did mop, but I didn’t have a Miracle Mop”.
That’s not a mop, it’s a gun.
The Venezuelan-born actor plays wannabe singer Tony Miranne and Lawrence’s ex, Fox News Latino reports. Joy’s mother (an nearly unrecognizable Virginia Madsen), long since divorced from Rudy, spends her days in bed watching soap operas (affectionately pastiched by Russell using such daytime-TV legends as Susan Lucci and Laura Wright). In a scene that’s one of the film’s highlights, Joy overcomes her terror of appearing on live TV and, addressing the audience as the regular-gal homemaker she is, proudly demonstrates the various convenient features of her humble invention.
But the director of “American Hustle” and “Silver Linings Playbook” presents this potentially arcane information in such a fast-paced and clever way, you never feel your eyes glaze over. I am happy to explore things the way she wants to do them, and she also will trust what I want to do. And so I would practice it, you know, practice, like, technique and then – and just kind of getting used to it. Russell, in fact, has made a tradition this time of year of delivering films about the foibles of flawed but endearingly quirky humans, including the spry and goofy “American Hustle” in 2013 and the sweet-and-sour romantic dramedy “Silver Linings Playbook” in 2012. “She suggested letting her demonstrate it herself, and the channel agreed”.