Jennifer Lawrence, Amy Schumer Steve Granitz/FilmMagic/Getty Photographs;Kevin Mazur/Getty Photographs for Good+Basis
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer’s long-gestating onscreen collaboration has been placed on ice — no less than for now.
After Lawrence, 33, revealed that she and Schumer, 42, have been engaged on a script collectively again in 2015, the venture now seems to be formally useless.
“I don’t assume it should ever occur,” Schumer instructed Selection in a narrative revealed Tuesday, April 30. “It was simply, like, life stored going. My household was going by means of a tough time. I don’t wish to say any greater than that.”
Nonetheless, that doesn’t imply Schumer and Lawrence’s skilled paths gained’t doubtlessly cross additional down the road.
As Schumer insisted, “The best way we’re hoping our careers go, we would do one thing with extra grit and tooth.”
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Regardless, Lawrence stated the script’s subject material — which discovered the 2 actresses enjoying sisters — made just a little bit extra sense a decade in the past.
Amy Schumer and Jennifer Lawrence Paul Drinkwater/NBCUniversal by way of Getty Photographs
“Now that we’re older, a sister comedy won’t resonate as a lot,” Lawrence instructed Selection. “However we now have each intention of working collectively.”
Lawrence additionally used the chance to defend Schumer towards a few of the backlash she has acquired within the wake of her outspoken help of Israel within the midst of the Israel-Hamas battle.
“Amy’s selection to make use of her voice to talk for justice places her underneath immense hearth,” she stated of her good friend. “I wouldn’t say she navigates it a lot as she throws her center fingers up and walks away from detrimental feedback like a gasoline station hearth in a Michael Bay film.”
Whereas their script could by no means see the day, Lawrence instructed The New York Instances in 2015 that she and Schumer had virtually completed the whole factor.
“We’re virtually achieved writing,” the Oscar winner stated. “It simply flowed out of us. We’ve received about 100 pages proper now.”
Lawrence continued, “Amy and I have been creatively made for one another. We’ve got totally different flavors. It’s been essentially the most enjoyable expertise of my life. We begin the day without work on the cellphone, laughing. After which we ship one another pages.”
The 2 stars grew to become good mates when Lawrence contacted Schumer after seeing her star-making flip in 2015’s Trainwreck.
“I emailed her after I noticed Trainwreck and stated, ‘I don’t know the place to get began. I assume I ought to simply say it: I’m in love with you,’” Lawrence defined. “We began emailing, after which emailing turned to texting.”