Jennifer Lawrence, an Oscar-winning actress, and Hunger Games star has announced that she will not perform live, citing her voice and nerves as the reasons.
She admitted as much to Front Row on BBC Radio 4: “I think it would be terrible. I’m not connected to my voice, she admitted. “I’m terrified because I have terrible stage fright. I may therefore not even be able to speak.”
Silver Linings Playbook, a romantic comedy-drama, earned Lawrence the 2013 Academy Award for Best Actress.
For her roles in Winter’s Bone (2011), American Hustle (2014), and Joy (2015), she received additional nominations for best actress.
Lawrence compared doing a show in a theater night after night to “doing take 10,000” of a movie.
“I become more upset as I practice something. I’d say, “Oh, let’s just try something new,” “said she.
Success on stage is not always a given for Hollywood celebrities.
Amy Adams, an Oscar nominee, made her West End debut earlier this year to varying levels of acclaim; one critic called her performance “solid but unremarkable.”
However, Lawrence’s Silver Linings Playbook co-star Bradley Cooper garnered acclaim for his 2015 stage performance in The Elephant Man in London as Joseph Merrick. On Broadway in New York, the play had already garnered praise from critics.
Last year, Cabaret received numerous five-star reviews from critics who praised Eddie Redmayne and Jessie Buckley for their leading performances.
However, Lindsay Lohan’s stage debut in the West End for Speed-the-Plow in 2014 received mixed reviews. She also tended to forget her lines occasionally and required a prompt during the second act. In her subsequent performance in the play Photograph 51 in London, Nicole Kidman was praised for being “luminous” and “compelling.”
Director Lila Neugebauer is behind Lawrence’s most recent movie, Causeway. Front Row was informed by the theatre director that Lawrence is “a woman of great clarity about her desires, instincts, and objectives so I’ve expressed my respect for her position, though I disagree.”
It is the first movie produced by Lawrence’s production company, which, according to Lawrence, allowed her to be “more personal” in her choice of projects.
She said,
“I was in a lot of franchises in my 20s, like The Hunger Games. “Many people in the room were debating what [her character] Katniss should do next.
“I feel like having less of a commodity status has greatly increased my freedom to create what I want and with whom I want.
“Right now, I feel a lot less lost and more in control.”
She claimed that if Neugebauer oversaw a play, “it would be the closest I’ve ever come to considering it.”
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