Jennifer Lawrence Is Terrified People Think Die My Love Is Katniss and Edward Fanfic | Tonight Show — Transcript

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1. 0:01-Welcome back, Jennifer Lawrence.
2. 0:02You look fantastic. -Thank you.
3. 0:03-We love you. -Tell me if my arm looks fat.
4. 0:07[ Cheers and applause ] -Never. Never.
5. 0:09-Okay. -I missed you.
6. 0:10You know, I haven't seen you in eight years.
7. 0:12-Eight years?
8. 0:14-It's been eight years since you've been on the show,
9. 0:15which is -- so many great things have happened.
10. 0:17You're married, you have two kids.
11. 0:19-Yeah. -How's the family?
12. 0:20How's everything? -Everybody's good.
13. 0:22I mean, I think -- Everybody's alive, and I'm...
14. 0:25[ Laughter ] -Great to hear.
15. 0:27-I'm -- I'm nervous. I'm very nervous.
16. 0:29-Why?
17. 0:31-I always get nervous with these things
18. 0:32I think because I've been, like,
19. 0:34watching them since I was little.
20. 0:35So it's like a talk show. I watch this.
21. 0:38And so I'm like -- -You're good at this.
22. 0:39You've done this. You're doing --
23. 0:41-Not in eight years. -Oh, stop, though.
24. 0:44You know what's so funny? I was gonna say, every time
25. 0:46you do the -- you're doing press now for this movie.
26. 0:48Congratulations on it. "Die My Love,"
27. 0:50in theaters Friday. [ Cheers and applause ]
28. 0:54Everything -- [ Both laugh ]
29. 0:56Everything you say kind of gets picked up in the press.
30. 1:00-It's so -- I'm so annoying. I --
31. 1:03[ Laughter ] -You are not.
32. 1:05I did an interview where they were like, you know,
33. 1:08"Everybody thought you were annoying,"
34. 1:09or I said I was annoying. I don't remember how it started.
35. 1:11-Yes, I saw this. -But I was like --
36. 1:13But I was like, "Yeah." Like, I was hyper, and I was,
37. 1:15you know -- and I was annoying.
38. 1:16And then, the Internet, the sweet Internet --
39. 1:20I never said that before -- [ Laughter ]
40. 1:22was just like rushed to my support and was like,
41. 1:25"You're not annoying!
42. 1:26We never thought you were annoying!"
43. 1:28But that is annoying because I, like,
44. 1:29weaponized my experience to make everybody, like...
45. 1:34-Stick up for me. -...to stick up for me.
46. 1:35And I'm like, "Oh, my God, that is so annoying!"
47. 1:38Like, just -- just -- I am annoying,
48. 1:40and I am okay with that. -Okay.
49. 1:43-And I don't want anybody to...
50. 1:45-Stick up for you. -...say anything.
51. 1:46-Okay. We're not -- [ Laughter ]
52. 1:48I don't know how I'm gonna do the rest of this interview.
53. 1:50Okay. -Thank you.
54. 1:51I don't -- I'm not gonna say a [bleep] word.
55. 1:53-No, you have -- no, you have to say something!
56. 1:55It's me that can't. -Okay. Sorry.
57. 1:57-Uh, is that type of language gonna be in --
58. 1:59-Freakin'. -Thank you.
59. 2:00[ Laughter ]
60. 2:02There's the new film that I saw that you and...
61. 2:04-No, it's completely gitty. -Cole Escola and Emma Stone.
62. 2:06-Oh, "Miss Piggy." -"Miss Piggy."
63. 2:08I heard you're working on maybe a possible film
64. 2:12about Miss Piggy. -I am.
65. 2:14So... [ Cheers and applause ]
66. 2:15-That sounds great.
67. 2:17-Thank you. So, during, um, lockdown,
68. 2:21one of my good friends, who's not in the industry, was like --
69. 2:24It was also kind of around cancel culture.
70. 2:26It was like both things were kind of happening at once.
71. 2:28We were all locked up in our rooms.
72. 2:31-And getting -- -Naughty people were being
73. 2:32locked up in prison. -Yes, yes, yes, that's true.
74. 2:35-And she was like, "Miss Piggy is a feminist icon."
75. 2:39And she said, you know, it would be so funny
76. 2:42if Miss Piggy got canceled.
77. 2:43Now, that is not the plot, necessarily,
78. 2:46but it got the wheels turning of, like, "Wait. There..."
79. 2:50-Your friend is very funny. -"...hasn't actually been, like,
80. 2:51a feminist -- like, a Miss Piggy starring in this movie."
81. 2:55So I was -- I started kind of producing it.
82. 2:59But Emma Stone is the Muppet-head.
83. 3:03Also, Emma Stone is a shark.
84. 3:05I am not -- Emma Stone, like, will turn around, like,
85. 3:08in a leather jacket with a cigar and be like, "Hey, kid,
86. 3:11let me tell you a thing or two about Hollywood."
87. 3:13-Yeah, yeah, okay. -I'm, like, the ideas guy.
88. 3:15-Yes, and you go -- Yeah.
89. 3:17-So I went to her to be like, "What do we do?"
90. 3:19-Yeah. -"How do we do this?
91. 3:20Lead the charge."
92. 3:22So now Cole is writing it, and they're perfect.
93. 3:24Um, and, yeah. -That is so fun.
94. 3:26And you'll be in it, as well? -Yeah, I think so.
95. 3:28Yeah. I mean, I have to be. So, yes.
96. 3:29[ Laughter ] I mean, I want to be.
97. 3:31-All right. So that movie we'll look forward to.
98. 3:33But now let's talk about the movie
99. 3:34that we can see this Friday, "Die My Love."
100. 3:36Congratulations on this. This is based on a book.
101. 3:39And how did you hear about this?
102. 3:41-Well, um, I've told this story before, so --
103. 3:43-That's why I wanted to ask. -I know, but just, like,
104. 3:46fast-forward or don't watch it or something.
105. 3:47I don't know. Um...
106. 3:49-No, I like this story. -Martin Scorsese was like,
107. 3:52"I read this book in my book club," and I was like, "What?"
108. 3:56-Yes! -That is so sweet.
109. 3:58And he was like, "I think you'd be great in it."
110. 4:01And, you know -- and then I read it and, like,
111. 4:03I didn't get it at first.
112. 4:05I mean, it was, like -- it was an incredible role,
113. 4:08very, you know, "Woman Under the Influence,"
114. 4:10very Cassavetes. -Yeah.
115. 4:11-But it was all told from her perspective,
116. 4:14so I kind of didn't figure out --
117. 4:16I couldn't figure out how to, like, crack it as a film,
118. 4:18but I didn't want to, like, call Marty
119. 4:19and be like, "I didn't get it." [ Laughter ]
120. 4:21-Yeah, he's Martin Scorsese, yeah.
121. 4:22-Yeah, yeah, yeah. So then I sat with it
122. 4:24for a while, realized, you know, it's not literal.
123. 4:27And, uh, Lynne Ramsay is somebody who I've always
124. 4:29wanted to work with.
125. 4:30So, basically, she cracked it, and she's a genius.
126. 4:32-She cracked it. Boy, she cracked it.
127. 4:34-I can't believe I'm still talking.
128. 4:36-No. What are you saying? [ Laughter ]
129. 4:37Uh, you -- you actually. -[ Mock crying ]
130. 4:39-No. Stop crying. Stop crying!
131. 4:42No, this is fun! -[ Mock crying continues ]
132. 4:44-You're having fun on a talk show!
133. 4:46Stop crying. -Okay.
134. 4:47-Yes, trust me, this is fun.
135. 4:49-Okay.
136. 4:51[ Laughter ]
137. 4:52-Robert Pattinson plays your husband.
138. 4:55-Yeah. -Yeah.
139. 4:56Was that your idea to cast him?
140. 4:57-[ Laughs ] Yeah.
141. 4:59[ Laughter, cheers, applause ]
142. 5:03-Why not? -No, he's so --
143. 5:04-Why not? -Yeah. No, this was actually --
144. 5:06This is actually how you know you're working with,
145. 5:08like, a god auteur.
146. 5:09Every single person who was our first choice
147. 5:12in casting said yes. -Did it?
148. 5:14-Like, Sissy Spacek, Nick Nolte, Robert Pattinson,
149. 5:17Lakeith. Like, it was -- -Lakeith Stanfield.
150. 5:19-I've never dealt with that. As a -- heh -- producer,
151. 5:22I've never dealt with just like, you know, our A-plus choice.
152. 5:25I have a funny producing story.
153. 5:27-Tell. -Um, so, in Canada,
154. 5:30we speak mostly the same language,
155. 5:32but there are like... -I think we do, yeah.
156. 5:35-Well, yeah, but like, there are certain
157. 5:36words that would get confused.
158. 5:38So, in Canada, they call the trailer your room.
159. 5:43And so we call trailers "trailers"
160. 5:45'cause they're trailers. -Yeah.
161. 5:46-And we call our room, like the hotel room
162. 5:48that we're living in for months. -Yeah.
163. 5:49-So when my producing partner got a text
164. 5:52from our line producer that was like,
165. 5:55"These three background kids have nowhere to stay.
166. 5:59Like, can they use your room?"
167. 6:01And she's thinking my hotel room that I live in.
168. 6:04Like, three kids?
169. 6:06[ Stammering ] [ Laughter ]
170. 6:08Is that uninsurable? Like, I...
171. 6:10-Yeah, it sounds illegal, yeah. -Yeah.
172. 6:12And so she's like, "Well, geez, I don't know.
173. 6:15Like, all my stuff's in there."
174. 6:17And the line producer's, like, getting more
175. 6:18and more flabbergasted.
176. 6:19He's like, "I'll help you move your stuff!"
177. 6:21And she's like, "I don't know. I mean --"
178. 6:23And then, finally he, like, throws his hands up,
179. 6:25and he's like, "Fine! I'll ask Lynne!", the director.
180. 6:27And we're like, "No! Don't ask the director
181. 6:29to move out of her home." -Yeah.
182. 6:31Like, "Okay." -"We'll figure this out."
183. 6:33-Like, this whole back-and-forth where he thinks we're crazy.
184. 6:36We obviously think he's crazy. -Yeah.
185. 6:38-Um, and then it was -- It was just a misunderstanding.
186. 6:40[ Mock crying ] -Oh, my gosh.
187. 6:44Unbelievable. Unbeliev-- You're unbelievable.
188. 6:48I hear that you and Robert Pattinson had to do,
189. 6:50like, a dance class together to kind of get to know each other.
190. 6:54Like, an interpretive dance?
191. 6:55-Interpretive dance.
192. 6:57So the director was like, you know --
193. 6:59We actually didn't know each other.
194. 7:00I mean, we're like actors, so we've, like, seen each other,
195. 7:03but we did not know each other.
196. 7:05And so we got there to Canada a few weeks --
197. 7:08In Canada, we had to learn how to speak Canadian.
198. 7:11Um... [ Laughter ]
199. 7:12-It's the same -- It's the same language.
200. 7:15-It's really not. -I know, I know.
201. 7:17-I can tell you've never filmed in El Canada.
202. 7:20-El Canada. [ Laughter ]
203. 7:22-Um, so, anyway, um, she made us do interpretive dance.
204. 7:26It was very embarrassing.
205. 7:27-How is he as a dancer? -Better than you.
206. 7:29He didn't abandon me. [ Audience exclaims ]
207. 7:32I mean, I'm sure nobody remembers, but...
208. 7:34-We danced together. -But we danced together.
209. 7:36-Yeah, we had a great time dancing together.
210. 7:37-We saw J.Lo. -We wanted to dance with her.
211. 7:41-We wanted to dance with J.Lo. -Yeah. We were like,
212. 7:43"Let's go ask her to dance." -Yeah.
213. 7:44-"Dance." -Come on, dance with us.
214. 7:46-"Why wouldn't she wanna dance with us?"
215. 7:47-"Dance with us!"
216. 7:49-And then we had choreographed a little spin.
217. 7:51-That's right. -And then I did the spin...
218. 7:52-I was gonna spin you into J.Lo.
219. 7:54-And you did start to spin me. Like, you spun me.
220. 7:57And then we were both gonna go, "Dance with us."
221. 7:59-That's correct. -And then, I turn around.
222. 8:01You were not there. -I spun you, and I left.
223. 8:04-I think you left the whole party.
224. 8:06-I left. I went home. -Yeah.
225. 8:08-I was like -- [ Mock cries ]
226. 8:09-So anyway, Rob stayed. -"Rob stayed."
227. 8:12-And I always knew when he was leaving.
228. 8:13-Gosh, you get to call him "Rob"?
229. 8:15-Yeah. Sometimes I even call him "Bob."
230. 8:17-"Bob"? -Yeah.
231. 8:19-Bob Pattinson. -Bob Pattinson.
232. 8:21-I just -- I have all -- saw the Internet's going crazy
233. 8:24that Katniss and Edward are in a movie together.
234. 8:26-Yeah, well, I'm very nervous. [ Cheers and applause ]
235. 8:28-No. -Yes! That's right.
236. 8:30-No. -Yes, we want that!
237. 8:31-No.
238. 8:32[ Cheers and applause continues ]
239. 8:34♪♪
240. 8:36-Everyone ca-- no. -♪ Katniss and Edward ♪
241. 8:39♪ And Katniss and Edward ♪ -No.
242. 8:41-♪ Twilight and Hunger Games ♪
243. 8:43-No. -Yes!
244. 8:45-I'm very nervous that people are gonna, like,
245. 8:47sprint to the theater
246. 8:49thinking it's like Katniss and Edward fanfic, and it's not.
247. 8:52It's, like, a very, like... -No, it's not.
248. 8:55-...idiosyncratic, like, poetic, like, work of art.
249. 8:57-It's beautiful, by the way. -No, it is, it's great.
250. 9:00But if you're expecting fanfic...
251. 9:02-It's not that. -...you're gonna be
252. 9:03really disappointed. I'm just afraid it's gonna
253. 9:05come out and everybody's gonna be mad at me.
254. 9:07-Never.
255. 9:08Uh, I'm gonna read good reviews about you.
256. 9:10-How's my arm? Oh, it looks good.
257. 9:11[ Laughter ]
258. 9:13-It's great. [ Cheers and applause ]
259. 9:16This review says... -I'm totally fine with that.
260. 9:18-Yeah, you're fine with that.
261. 9:20Here are some reviews about you. "Once --"
262. 9:22-No, no, no. -Please?
263. 9:23-No, no, no. No. [ Laughter ]
264. 9:24-No, no, no, no. -It's not -- It's from me.
265. 9:28[ Laughter ]
266. 9:30These are reviews that I wrote down.
267. 9:31-I don't know how to respond to that.
268. 9:32-Yeah. [ Laughter ]
269. 9:34I said, "Jennifer Lawrence is astonishing,"
270. 9:36and I sent it to "Vanity Fair."
271. 9:37[ Laughter ]
272. 9:39I said, "Jennifer Lawrence is a powerhouse."
273. 9:41I sent that one to "Newsweek." -Oh!
274. 9:43-And I said, "Lawrence has already has a career full
275. 9:46of great performances, but this might be
276. 9:47her finest work to date," and sent that to "NME."
277. 9:49Come on. That's what I'm talking about.
278. 9:51[ Cheers and applause ]
279. 9:52"Finest work to date"!
280. 9:55Not too shabs. -No.
281. 9:58-How do we set up the film?
282. 10:00Uh, and, I know, it's -- -Oh, the clip?
283. 10:02-Yes. -Oh, great.
284. 10:04-You're good with this? -Yeah.
285. 10:05Well, the lights will go down. I'll be able to just, like...
286. 10:07I won't have to suck in. Like, let's do it.
287. 10:09[ Laughter ] Um...
288. 10:10Um, this is a clip from my upcoming film, "Die My Love."
289. 10:15My character is struggling psychologically,
290. 10:19um, from postpartum or depression or --
291. 10:21You know, I don't know. I didn't ask.
292. 10:23And -- and somebody's talking to her, and she's like, "What?"
293. 10:28-All right. Thank you so much. Here's the, uh...
294. 10:30[ Laughter and applause ]
295. 10:35I want to show everyone a clip. It's amazing, actually.
296. 10:37Here's Jennifer Lawrence in "Die My Love."
297. 10:39Take a look.
298. 10:40-Yeah, I, um... [ Clears throat ]
299. 10:42I have two kids, and...
300. 10:45And two is a lot,
301. 10:47if I'm being honest.
302. 10:49-Seems like it. -Doing great.
303. 10:50-Babies, though. Babies are hard.
304. 10:54I don't think anybody talks about that enough.
305. 10:55-It's all anyone talks about.
306. 10:58-It changes you. [ Chuckles ]
307. 11:01I think I nearly lost my mind for the first six months.
308. 11:05-When do you think you'll be getting it back?
309. 11:07-[ Laughs ]
310. 11:11Yeah.
311. 11:13-Come on, Jennifer Lawrence, everybody.
312. 11:14"Die My Love" is in theaters November 7th.
313. 11:18Jennifer and I are playing a game after the break.
314. 11:21Stick around, everybody.