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  • Shot in secrecy, Afghan film “Bread & Roses” on horrors faced by women gets Cannes premiere

    By PTI

    CANNES: Documentarian Sahra Mani’s “Bread & Roses”, produced by Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver, has brought to the Croisette the horrors that are being heaped upon women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

    “Bread & Roses”, which premiered in the Special Screenings section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, pieces together stories of Afghan women fighting for freedom, education and employment at grave risk to their lives.

    “Bread & Roses” is composed of footage and videos shot in secrecy in Afghanistan, often by women themselves.

    “The primary purpose of my film,” says Mani, “is to amplify the voice of women activists in Afghanistan…We want to tell the world about their situation.”

    “As we set out to make the film, we searched for women who were happy to be in it. Many volunteered,” Mani recounts. “They are surviving against the odds. Life is tough but these women are incredibly brave,” she adds.

    The focus of “Bread & Roses” is on three women – two activists in Kabul, and one in a safe house in Pakistan.”They are now all out of Afghanistan but even those that have escaped to safety have someone or the other left behind in the country,” says Mani.

    ALSO READ: Martin Scorsese debuts ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ in Cannes to thunderous applause

    Mani had been filming in Kabul since 2012.

    In 2021, she was at the Venice Film Festival to pitch a film titled “Kabul Melody”, about Afghanistan’s only music school where boys and girls studied together. While she was there, Kabul fell to the Taliban and she could not return home.

    “My film cannot show even a fraction of what is going on in Afghanistan. I could capture only a small part of the reality,” she says, adding that it isn’t empathy that the women of Kabul are looking for.

    “I want the world to be in solidarity with them.”

    Lawrence was on the stage to present the film along with Mani and Dr Zahra Mohammadi, who features prominently in “Bread & Roses”.

    “Zahra represents all educated and gifted Afghan women, doctors and professionals who have been stopped from working and forced by a totalitarian regime to stay confined within their homes,” says Mani.

    Lawrence had seen Mani’s 2019 documentary, “A Thousand Girls Like Me”, at HotDocs Toronto. It was about a young Afghan woman seeking justice after having been sexually abused by her father for years. Impressed by the film, Lawrence came on board to produce “Bread & Roses” with Mani’s company, Afghan Doc Film House.

    The film was completed just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival.

    “We sent the link to the festival at the very last minute and explained why we were late. I was really happy when I learnt that the film had been accepted,” says Mani.

    CANNES: Documentarian Sahra Mani’s “Bread & Roses”, produced by Jennifer Lawrence’s Excellent Cadaver, has brought to the Croisette the horrors that are being heaped upon women in Taliban-ruled Afghanistan.

    “Bread & Roses”, which premiered in the Special Screenings section of the 76th Cannes Film Festival, pieces together stories of Afghan women fighting for freedom, education and employment at grave risk to their lives.

    “Bread & Roses” is composed of footage and videos shot in secrecy in Afghanistan, often by women themselves.googletag.cmd.push(function() {googletag.display(‘div-gpt-ad-8052921-2’); });

    “The primary purpose of my film,” says Mani, “is to amplify the voice of women activists in Afghanistan…We want to tell the world about their situation.”

    “As we set out to make the film, we searched for women who were happy to be in it. Many volunteered,” Mani recounts. “They are surviving against the odds. Life is tough but these women are incredibly brave,” she adds.

    The focus of “Bread & Roses” is on three women – two activists in Kabul, and one in a safe house in Pakistan.”They are now all out of Afghanistan but even those that have escaped to safety have someone or the other left behind in the country,” says Mani.

    ALSO READ: Martin Scorsese debuts ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ in Cannes to thunderous applause

    Mani had been filming in Kabul since 2012.

    In 2021, she was at the Venice Film Festival to pitch a film titled “Kabul Melody”, about Afghanistan’s only music school where boys and girls studied together. While she was there, Kabul fell to the Taliban and she could not return home.

    “My film cannot show even a fraction of what is going on in Afghanistan. I could capture only a small part of the reality,” she says, adding that it isn’t empathy that the women of Kabul are looking for.

    “I want the world to be in solidarity with them.”

    Lawrence was on the stage to present the film along with Mani and Dr Zahra Mohammadi, who features prominently in “Bread & Roses”.

    “Zahra represents all educated and gifted Afghan women, doctors and professionals who have been stopped from working and forced by a totalitarian regime to stay confined within their homes,” says Mani.

    Lawrence had seen Mani’s 2019 documentary, “A Thousand Girls Like Me”, at HotDocs Toronto. It was about a young Afghan woman seeking justice after having been sexually abused by her father for years. Impressed by the film, Lawrence came on board to produce “Bread & Roses” with Mani’s company, Afghan Doc Film House.

    The film was completed just ahead of the Cannes Film Festival.

    “We sent the link to the festival at the very last minute and explained why we were late. I was really happy when I learnt that the film had been accepted,” says Mani.

  • There’s way less tolerance for disrespectful behaviour on sets, says Hugh Jackman

    By PTI

    LONDON: Australian star Hugh Jackman was relatively unknown when he was offered the chance to play Wolverine in the first “X-Men” in Hollywood and the actor says there is a lot to be proud about these movies despite the allegations surrounding its director and producer Bryan Singer’s misbehaviour.

    The singer has been accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

    Actors like Halle Berry and Jennifer Lawrence, who starred in the movies, have spoken about how difficult it was to work with the director on the franchise, consisting of 13 films.

    In an interview with The Guardian, the actor, who is currently promoting his latest film “The Son”, was asked whether the allegations had tainted the way he looked back at these movies.

    “You know, that’s a really, really complicated question.”

    “There’s a lot of things at stake there. ‘X-Men’ was the turning point, I believe, in terms of comic-book movies and I think there’s a lot to be proud of. And there are certainly questions to be asked and I think they should be asked. But I guess I don’t know how to elegantly answer that. I think it’s complex and ultimately I look back with pride at what we’ve achieved and what momentum that started,” Jackman said.

    Asked whether his experience was similar to what others faced at the time, the actor said he was relatively new to Hollywood but things have changed for the better in recent years.

    “This was my first movie in America, you gotta understand; it was all so new to me. I think it’s fair to say that… There are some stories, you know… I think there are some ways of being on set that would not happen now. And I think that things have changed for the better.

    “There’s way less tolerance for disrespectful, marginalising, bullying, any oppressive behaviour. There’s zero tolerance for it now and people will speak out, and I think that’s great,” he added.

    Jackman, 54, had decided to retire as Wolverine after 2017 classic hit “Logan”, where his character was killed off.

    But earlier this year, he announced that he would be returning to the role in “Deadpool 3”, starring his close friend Ryan Reynolds.

    Reynolds was quite persistent in convincing Jackman to revive the character.

    The Hollywood star said he was “OK” with letting go of his career-defining role.

    “I wasn’t tortured by it. When people would ask me (to reprise the role) including Ryan, every five seconds, I was like: I’m done.”

    The actor said he decided to reprise his role as he knew he would have fun doing a Deadpool movie.

    “I just wanted to do it and I felt it in my gut. Plus, I get to punch the s*** out of Ryan Reynolds every day,” he added.

    LONDON: Australian star Hugh Jackman was relatively unknown when he was offered the chance to play Wolverine in the first “X-Men” in Hollywood and the actor says there is a lot to be proud about these movies despite the allegations surrounding its director and producer Bryan Singer’s misbehaviour.

    The singer has been accused of sexual misconduct, which he has denied.

    Actors like Halle Berry and Jennifer Lawrence, who starred in the movies, have spoken about how difficult it was to work with the director on the franchise, consisting of 13 films.

    In an interview with The Guardian, the actor, who is currently promoting his latest film “The Son”, was asked whether the allegations had tainted the way he looked back at these movies.

    “You know, that’s a really, really complicated question.”

    “There’s a lot of things at stake there. ‘X-Men’ was the turning point, I believe, in terms of comic-book movies and I think there’s a lot to be proud of. And there are certainly questions to be asked and I think they should be asked. But I guess I don’t know how to elegantly answer that. I think it’s complex and ultimately I look back with pride at what we’ve achieved and what momentum that started,” Jackman said.

    Asked whether his experience was similar to what others faced at the time, the actor said he was relatively new to Hollywood but things have changed for the better in recent years.

    “This was my first movie in America, you gotta understand; it was all so new to me. I think it’s fair to say that… There are some stories, you know… I think there are some ways of being on set that would not happen now. And I think that things have changed for the better.

    “There’s way less tolerance for disrespectful, marginalising, bullying, any oppressive behaviour. There’s zero tolerance for it now and people will speak out, and I think that’s great,” he added.

    Jackman, 54, had decided to retire as Wolverine after 2017 classic hit “Logan”, where his character was killed off.

    But earlier this year, he announced that he would be returning to the role in “Deadpool 3”, starring his close friend Ryan Reynolds.

    Reynolds was quite persistent in convincing Jackman to revive the character.

    The Hollywood star said he was “OK” with letting go of his career-defining role.

    “I wasn’t tortured by it. When people would ask me (to reprise the role) including Ryan, every five seconds, I was like: I’m done.”

    The actor said he decided to reprise his role as he knew he would have fun doing a Deadpool movie.

    “I just wanted to do it and I felt it in my gut. Plus, I get to punch the s*** out of Ryan Reynolds every day,” he added.

  • Jennifer Lawrence backs out of playing controversial tech CEO Elizabeth Holmes

    By Express News Service

    Jennifer Lawrence has come out with a statement saying that she won’t be playing the infamous Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. It was earlier reported that she will be playing Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay’s upcoming film about the Theranos scandal. Lawrence had previously collaborated with McKay on the Oscar-nominated film Don’t Look Up.

    Lawrence feels that she cannot do justice to the character since the definitive version of the character has already been done by Amanda Seyfried. She played the scandalous CEO in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout. The film titled Bad Blood has Adam Mckay as the director while Apple Original Films is producing it.

    Talking about Seyfried’s acting, Jennifer Lawrence says, “I thought she was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.” Amanda Seyfried recently won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout.

    Elizabeth Holmes is an American entrepreneur and the founder of a health technology company known as Theranos. She was once considered the hope of health tech and was hailed as the next Steve Jobs by industry insiders. It was later revealed that her company faked the test results that her devices allegedly produced. She is currently convicted on four counts of fraud and could face up to 20 years in prison.

    (This story was originally published in Cinema Express)

    Jennifer Lawrence has come out with a statement saying that she won’t be playing the infamous Theranos CEO, Elizabeth Holmes. It was earlier reported that she will be playing Elizabeth Holmes in Adam McKay’s upcoming film about the Theranos scandal. Lawrence had previously collaborated with McKay on the Oscar-nominated film Don’t Look Up.

    Lawrence feels that she cannot do justice to the character since the definitive version of the character has already been done by Amanda Seyfried. She played the scandalous CEO in Hulu’s limited series The Dropout. The film titled Bad Blood has Adam Mckay as the director while Apple Original Films is producing it.

    Talking about Seyfried’s acting, Jennifer Lawrence says, “I thought she was terrific. I was like, ‘Yeah, we don’t need to redo that.’ She did it.” Amanda Seyfried recently won an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Elizabeth Holmes in The Dropout.

    Elizabeth Holmes is an American entrepreneur and the founder of a health technology company known as Theranos. She was once considered the hope of health tech and was hailed as the next Steve Jobs by industry insiders. It was later revealed that her company faked the test results that her devices allegedly produced. She is currently convicted on four counts of fraud and could face up to 20 years in prison.

    (This story was originally published in Cinema Express)

  • Jennifer Lawrence to star in Martin Scorsese’s production ‘Die, My Love’

    By Express News Service

    Actor Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in the upcoming film Die, My Love, which will be borrowing the story from Ariana Harwicz’s book by the same name. The upcoming film will have Martin Scorsese as the producer.

    “It reads like Sylvia Plath, especially because it’s about a woman suffering from postpartum and cycling into madness,” Jennifer was quoted as saying in a Collider report.

    If the film is to adapt the book without any detours, then Die, My Love will be set against the backdrop of the French countryside and will follow a woman who has her own share of darkness within her but is still supported by her family.

    It is yet to be made known who all will be part of the cast apart from Jennifer. The release date and others part of the film, is yet to be announced by the makers.

    Meanwhile, after Don’t Look Up, Jennifer starred in the American psychological thriller Causeway. The film was released in the US in October and is set to stream on Apple TV+ from Friday.

    The actor also has No Hard Feelings, an upcoming coming of an age comedy-drama, directed by Gene Stupnitsky. Besides starring in the film, Jennifer will also back the project under the banner Excellent Cadaver.

    (This story originally appeared on Cinema Express)

    Actor Jennifer Lawrence is set to star in the upcoming film Die, My Love, which will be borrowing the story from Ariana Harwicz’s book by the same name. The upcoming film will have Martin Scorsese as the producer.

    “It reads like Sylvia Plath, especially because it’s about a woman suffering from postpartum and cycling into madness,” Jennifer was quoted as saying in a Collider report.

    If the film is to adapt the book without any detours, then Die, My Love will be set against the backdrop of the French countryside and will follow a woman who has her own share of darkness within her but is still supported by her family.

    It is yet to be made known who all will be part of the cast apart from Jennifer. The release date and others part of the film, is yet to be announced by the makers.

    Meanwhile, after Don’t Look Up, Jennifer starred in the American psychological thriller Causeway. The film was released in the US in October and is set to stream on Apple TV+ from Friday.

    The actor also has No Hard Feelings, an upcoming coming of an age comedy-drama, directed by Gene Stupnitsky. Besides starring in the film, Jennifer will also back the project under the banner Excellent Cadaver.

    (This story originally appeared on Cinema Express)

  • ‘It came from the gut’: New mother Jennifer Lawrence returns with ‘Causeway’

    By AFP

    Toronto (Canada): When Jennifer Lawrence was offered a script about a wounded US Army engineer who returns from Afghanistan to a strained relationship with her mother, she was on a sabbatical from acting and not yet a parent.

    The Oscar-winning “Silver Linings Playbook” star, 32, whose fame had rocketed ever since the wildly popular “The Hunger Games” movies, had been a near-ubiquitous presence with a prolific run of movies, before announcing a pause because “everybody had gotten sick of me.”

    But when she read a script for “Causeway” — then entitled “Red, White, and Water” — something changed.

    “It was really just something that came from the gut, just like this urgency,” she told AFP at the Toronto film festival.

    “I was very clear that I didn’t want to work, and then somehow it landed on my desk, and I just had this sense of urgency, like ‘let’s make it, let’s do this.’”

    The subtle, character-driven indie movie — which also became the first project for Lawrence’s fledgling production company — follows military engineer Lynsey’s return to her mother’s home in New Orleans.

    A debilitating brain injury following an IED explosion in Afghanistan is not the only trauma she must overcome, as issues from her childhood and family life flood to the surface.

    Lawrence chose the film in part to showcase “what these heroes go through to keep us safe.”

    “It was wonderful to be able to talk to the amazing men and women who have served, to try to get some more information and background,” she said on the red carpet of the film’s world premiere Saturday.

    Motherhood

    But she also partly drew on her own childhood for the role in “Causeway,” in which Lynsey has a fractious relationship with her unreliable mother.

    “I have complications in my childhood just like everybody else does — so it was more kind of working that out,” she said of the film, which began shooting in 2019 before it was interrupted by the pandemic and eventually resumed in 2021.

    During that delay Lawrence also filmed and promoted doomsday comedy “Don’t Look Up.”

    And she has since become a mother herself, giving birth earlier this year to her son Cy.

    “Oh God, everything changes after you become a mom!” she told AFP.

    “How am I complicating his life? I don’t know yet,” she joked.

    The film sees Lynsey build an unlikely friendship with James, played by Brian Tyree Henry, an auto repair worker who fixes her truck when it breaks down.

    While both grew up in New Orleans, their backgrounds are very different.

    But he too has a family trauma buried deeply in his past, which the two bond over, in a relationship which soon forms the emotional anchor of the film.

    ‘Invisible injury’

    “This film is an excavation of how we begin to process, how we manage, how we actually change, how we start to connect again,” said director Lila Neugebauer, making her film debut after success on Broadway.

    “Both Jen and Brian connect so deeply with their characters on this film, as actors and as human beings.”

    For Lawrence, there was “something about this woman who has been through so much, and is suffering from this invisible injury, and trying to rebuild her home and where she belongs.”

    “There was something that deeply connected with me,” she said.

    “Causeway” will be released November 4 in select theaters and on Apple TV+. The Toronto International Film Festival runs through September 18.

    Toronto (Canada): When Jennifer Lawrence was offered a script about a wounded US Army engineer who returns from Afghanistan to a strained relationship with her mother, she was on a sabbatical from acting and not yet a parent.

    The Oscar-winning “Silver Linings Playbook” star, 32, whose fame had rocketed ever since the wildly popular “The Hunger Games” movies, had been a near-ubiquitous presence with a prolific run of movies, before announcing a pause because “everybody had gotten sick of me.”

    But when she read a script for “Causeway” — then entitled “Red, White, and Water” — something changed.

    “It was really just something that came from the gut, just like this urgency,” she told AFP at the Toronto film festival.

    “I was very clear that I didn’t want to work, and then somehow it landed on my desk, and I just had this sense of urgency, like ‘let’s make it, let’s do this.’”

    The subtle, character-driven indie movie — which also became the first project for Lawrence’s fledgling production company — follows military engineer Lynsey’s return to her mother’s home in New Orleans.

    A debilitating brain injury following an IED explosion in Afghanistan is not the only trauma she must overcome, as issues from her childhood and family life flood to the surface.

    Lawrence chose the film in part to showcase “what these heroes go through to keep us safe.”

    “It was wonderful to be able to talk to the amazing men and women who have served, to try to get some more information and background,” she said on the red carpet of the film’s world premiere Saturday.

    Motherhood

    But she also partly drew on her own childhood for the role in “Causeway,” in which Lynsey has a fractious relationship with her unreliable mother.

    “I have complications in my childhood just like everybody else does — so it was more kind of working that out,” she said of the film, which began shooting in 2019 before it was interrupted by the pandemic and eventually resumed in 2021.

    During that delay Lawrence also filmed and promoted doomsday comedy “Don’t Look Up.”

    And she has since become a mother herself, giving birth earlier this year to her son Cy.

    “Oh God, everything changes after you become a mom!” she told AFP.

    “How am I complicating his life? I don’t know yet,” she joked.

    The film sees Lynsey build an unlikely friendship with James, played by Brian Tyree Henry, an auto repair worker who fixes her truck when it breaks down.

    While both grew up in New Orleans, their backgrounds are very different.

    But he too has a family trauma buried deeply in his past, which the two bond over, in a relationship which soon forms the emotional anchor of the film.

    ‘Invisible injury’

    “This film is an excavation of how we begin to process, how we manage, how we actually change, how we start to connect again,” said director Lila Neugebauer, making her film debut after success on Broadway.

    “Both Jen and Brian connect so deeply with their characters on this film, as actors and as human beings.”

    For Lawrence, there was “something about this woman who has been through so much, and is suffering from this invisible injury, and trying to rebuild her home and where she belongs.”

    “There was something that deeply connected with me,” she said.

    “Causeway” will be released November 4 in select theaters and on Apple TV+. The Toronto International Film Festival runs through September 18.

  • Adam McKay, Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘Bad Blood’ movie lands at Apple

    By PTI

    LOS ANGELES: Filmmaker Adam McKay’s upcoming movie “Bad Blood”, starring Jennifer Lawrence, has been picked up by Apple Original Films.

    McKay will write, direct and produce the film, which will feature Lawrence as Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes.

    Theranos was once one of Silicon Valley’s most promising startups, with its multi-billion dollar valuation and promises of a blood testing system that claimed to be able to perform complex tests with just a drop of blood.

    The company, which was at one point worth USD 9 billion, lost trust with the public after an investigation by The Wall Street Journal poked holes in its claims about its new blood testing system.

    The movie is based on “Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley” from Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist John Carreyrou, who broke the initial story.

    “Bad Blood” will be produced by Apple Studios, in association with Legendary Pictures.

    McKay and Lawrence are currently getting praise for their first film together — “Don’t Look Up”.

    Also starring Leonardo DiCaprio, the movie follows two low-level astronomers who attempt to warn everyone about an approaching comet that will destroy Earth.

    The film also features Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett, Timothee Chalamet, Tyler Perry, Mark Rylance, Jonah Hill, Ariana Grande and others.

    It will debut on Netflix on December 24.

  • Leonardo DiCaprio’s ‘Don’t Look Up’ is about ‘climate crisis, politicisation of science’

    By PTI

    MUMBAI: Hollywood star Leonardo DiCaprio says he was drawn to his latest satirical sci-fi comedy “Don’t Look Up” as the film focuses on the urgency of climate crisis, a cause he has long wanted to highlight on screen.

    Directed by “The Big Short” helmer Adam McKay, the movie follows two low-level astronomers, played by DiCaprio and Jennifer Lawrence, who attempt to warn everyone about an approaching comet that will destroy Earth.

    DiCaprio, who has been an active part of the global climate change movement for many years, said McKay has cleverly used the plot of a comet wiping out the earth to throw light on the larger point about climate crisis.

    “Adam created this film, which was about the climate crisis but he created a sense of urgency with it by making it about a comet that’s going to hit Earth within eight months time and how science has become politicised, there’s alternative facts,” the Oscar-winning actor said during a global virtual press conference of the film.

    Asked what kind of change he is looking forward to in the public perception of science and people who practice it, the 47-year-old actor said he just wants climate scientists to be taken seriously.

    “I was just thankful to play a character who is solely based on so many of the people that I’ve met from the scientific community, in particular, climate scientists, who’ve been trying to communicate the urgency of this issue. And feeling like they’re subjected to the last page on the newspaper… There’s too many other things that we’re inundated with,” DiCaprio said.

    For the press conference, the actor was joined by Hollywood veteran Meryl Streep, good friend-frequent collaborator Jonah Hill, Tyler Perry, Lawrence and McKay.

    The film features DiCaprio as Dr Randall Mindy, who, along with Lawrence’s Dr Kate Dibiasky, goes on a giant media tour to warn mankind of the approaching comet.

    The actor, best known for his work in films like “Titanic”, “Shutter Island”, “Django Unchanged” and “The Revenant”, credited McKay for crafting two distinct characters of the low-level astronomers.

    “I love the way he portrayed these two different characters, one that is incredibly outspoken, like a Greta Thunberg type of character and mine that is trying to play within the system.

    But I also love the way he was just incredibly truthful about how we’re so immensely distracted from the truth nowadays.

    “And then, of course, COVID hit and there’s a whole new scientific argument going on there. It’s just such an important film to be a part of, at this particular time,” he added.

    “Don’t Look Up” will receive a limited theatrical release on December 10, followed by a Netflix premiere on December 24.

    DiCaprio, who runs a non-profit organisation devoted to promoting environmental awareness, said starring in the film was also a way to make sure he collaborates with other artistes in spreading the word about the danger mankind faces.

    “Adam really cracked the code with this narrative. There are so many comparisons that we can make about the climate crisis with this storyline. As a whole, it’s probably the most important issue all of us could be talking about on a regular basis and it takes artists like this to change the narrative, to create conversation. I’m honoured to be part of it,” he added.

    “Don Look Up”, produced by McKay and Kevin Messick, also features Hollywood star Cate Blanchett, Timothee Chalamet and pop star Ariana Grande among others.

  • Jennifer Lawrence to star in upcoming R-rated comedy titled No Hard Feelings

    By Express News Service

    Hollywood actor Jennifer Lawrence will team up with director Gene Stupnitsky for an upcoming R-rated comedy movie titled No Hard Feelings.

    Described as a coming-of-age dramedy, the film is set in Montauk, NY, a hamlet on the east end of Long Island. It is said to be in the same vein as Tom Cruise’s 1983 film Risky Business and Cameron Diaz-starrer Bad Teacher.

    Notably, Stupnitsky served as an executive producer and writer on Bad Teacher. No Hard Feelings has a script written by Stupnitsky along with Joan Phillips.

    The Sony Pictures film will be produced by Alex Saks, Marc Provissiero, Naomi Odenkirk, Lawrence and Justine Polsky. 

  • Pregnant Jennifer Lawrence attends rally for abortion justice

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Hollywood actor Jennifer Lawrence, who is currently expecting her first child with husband Cooke Maroney, recently attended a rally for abortion justice.

    On Saturday, comedian Amy Schumer took to her Instagram account and posted a photograph of her and Lawrence attending participating in the Women’s March protest.

    “I don’t have a uterus and she is pregnant but we out here @womensmarch @plannedparenthood #rallyforabortionjustice,” Schumer captioned the post.

    In the image, Lawrence can be seen holding a placard that read “Women can’t be free if they don’t control their bodies.”

    Fans lauded Lawrence and Schumer for lending their support to abortion rally.

    “Kudos,” a fan commented.

    “This picture really says it all! No one advocates abortion as an easy option or easy choice but it still needs to be exactly that, a women’s choice,” another social media user wrote.

    According to People, over 600 marches took place in the USA on Saturday as the U.S. Supreme Court prepares to consider another restrictive ban on abortion rights. 

  • Jennifer Lawrence expecting first child with husband Cooke Maroney

    By ANI

    WASHINGTON: Oscar-winning actor Jennifer Lawrence and husband Cooke Maroney will be welcoming a new member in their life as the duo is all set to embrace parenthood for the first time together.

    A representative for Jennifer confirmed the good news to People magazine on Wednesday.

    After parting her ways with director Darren Aronofsky in late 2017, the ‘Monk’ actor started dating the New York City-based art gallerist Cooke. The two got engaged in 2019 and married the same year at a Rhode Island wedding ceremony in October 2019.

    Meanwhile, on the work front, this news comes a few hours after the first trailer release of Jennifer’s star-studded new Adam McKay directorial film ‘Don’t Look Up’, also starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep in lead roles.