The One Movie Adele Told Jennifer Lawrence Not to Star in (and She Should Have Listened)
Jennifer Lawrence regrets she didn't follow the advice of Adele, who did not like the idea of Passengers and told Lawrence not to star in it.
In her interview with The New York Times, Jennifer Lawrence discussed her career and the reasons behind her two-year break from acting. The actress mentioned one particular movie among the career failures that made her step back and rethink her choices. It is Passengers, a 2016 movie that received a frosty reception from critics with a 30% Rotten Tomatoes score.
Lawrence said she felt that the movie got her fan base worried about her career. The actress described how disappointing it was when she realized that her fans came to watch her new movie but were unhappy with it.
This added to the feeling that "everybody had gotten sick" of her and her acting, so the actress decided to take a pause, which fortunately ended with high-ranking Don't Look Up.
Passengers is a space movie telling the story of Jim Preston, who wakes up from hypersleep on the interstellar spaceship 90 years before he is supposed to. Jim can't go back to sleep, so he is left totally alone on a spaceship full of sleeping people. After a year of such life, Jim decides to wake up another passenger, a beautiful woman, Aurora Lane, and make it look like another malfunction.
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At first, the couple finds themselves in a Biblical situation and naturally grows close. But later, Aurora discovers that Jim intentionally woke her up, condemning her to die of old age away from other people, and gets really mad. Then the spaceship starts to malfunction for real, so Jim has to sacrifice himself to save the other passengers. However, Aurora manages to save him, forgives him, and they spend the rest of their lives living happily ever after alone on the spaceship.
Now, this movie might have been a turning point for Lawrence, but fans actually don't think it was that horrible. The majority of viewers find that the main issues of the movie were its predictability and execution, not the cast or acting. If the editing was different, the movie could become one of the best in Lawrence's career.
"They definitely should have filmed this from her perspective, slowly coming to realize that he woke her on purpose and doomed her to be on the ship for the rest of her life. Then have him killed off saving the ship and end with her faced with the decision of picking someone else to wake up or living alone for the rest of her life," Reddit user Dingo_The_Baker pitched and commenters agreed that it would make an awesome space story.