Few in Hollywood can lay claim to the level of clout Jennifer Lawrence currently wields. Forbes estimated that she earned $34 million in the period spanning June 2013 and June 2014, and the continued success of The Hunger Games and X-Men franchises should guarantee eye-watering paydays for years to come. Still, outside her performances as Katniss Everdeen and Mystique, Lawrence has yet to feature in any traditional studio movies, preferring instead to seek out interesting roles in independent films. After her Oscar-winning turn as the troubled Tiffany in Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence again turned out for David O. Russell in American Hustle, and she will also take the title role in the directors forthcoming film Joy. Some of her other recent performances have come in The Beaver, Jodie Fosters overlooked 2011 curio, horror flick House at the End of the Street and just-released Serena, and Lawrence looks set to continue making independent films for as long as she's able:
Theres a feeling when you do indies, when youre on your twentieth hour into overtime and everyone else is too, and everybody is freezing cold, and the only reason that youre there is because of this passion for this tiny little thing that you love and you believe in, but you dont even know if anybody in the world is going to see it or care as much as you do. You know that a hundred people have the same feeling about this tiny little thing, and you cant get that on a studio film.
I watch movies and I watch sport. I also watch movies about sport, and if there were a sport about movies I'd watch that too. The internet was the closest thing I could find.
