{"id":270137,"date":"2025-11-08T02:52:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270137\/"},"modified":"2025-11-08T02:52:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-08T02:52:07","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-says-women-directors-dont-overdirect-like-men","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/270137\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Says Women Directors Don’t ‘Overdirect’ Like Men"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tJennifer Lawrence<\/a> opened up about one of the differences between working with female directors and male directors, revealing that she believes women directors don\u2019t \u201coverdirect\u201d like men do.<\/p>\n

\n\tDuring a recent post-screening Q&A for Die My Love<\/a>, Lawrence reflected on working with director Lynne Ramsay<\/a> on her new film and explained how the experience was different than working with a male director.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI have found a commonality in female directors, which is that they do not do this thing, which is overdirect,\u201d Lawrence told Vulture<\/a>. \u201cThere have been some times when I\u2019ve worked with male directors where there\u2019s this need to constantly feel like they\u2019re directing the movie. And it\u2019s not even really getting anything done. It\u2019s just annoying. When I think auteur, my mind kind of goes to controlling and \u2026 what\u2019s that word? Neurotic!\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence went on to note that Ramsay \u201cwas the opposite\u201d of that approach. \u201cShe really built this world and made sure that we were all on the same page, through music and conversations and the atmosphere and the set. And then she would just kind of slowly walk back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cAnd sometimes, from the discomfort of that, from the lack of her visibility, something interesting would come from it,\u201d Lawrence continued. \u201cAnd then she would come out and be like, \u2018That\u2019s great, great, yeah, do it again.\u2019 Or we would accidentally laugh and be like, \u2018Oh, sorry.\u2019 And she\u2019d be like, \u2018No, it was great. I liked that you laughed. Do it again.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tRamsay also discussed her directing style on the movie during the Q&A and revealed she wanted to actors to feel free on set.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cI love working with actors. When you really trust each other, something just happens that\u2019s magical,\u201d she said. \u201cSo sometimes I\u2019d let the take run long. There\u2019s a kind of discomfort in that. It\u2019s like, \u2018What the hell did we do now?\u2019 But then something happens sometimes. I gave them the space in that house to just explore and go in and out of doors. There was one scene where Grace is just bored in the house and there\u2019s that laundry basket, and I didn\u2019t ask her to tip it over with her toe, but there\u2019s a kind of rage in that.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tBased on Ariana Harwicz\u2019s 2012 novel of the same name, Die My Love<\/a> follows Grace (Lawrence) as she plunges into psychosis amid a loveless marriage shortly after she gives birth. The movie also stars Robert Pattinson, LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek.<\/p>\n

\n\tLawrence also previously spoke to The Hollywood Reporter<\/a> about working with Ramsay, saying that the director was \u201cvery emotionally led.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\t\u201cA few weeks before shooting, we all went up to Calgary and we had really long discussions about our characters. Not really rehearsals \u2014 just conversations. Then she shows us around the house, and the house kind starts to feel like another character,\u201d Lawrence said of the director. \u201cShe does so much world-building that by the time that you actually get there, she steps back a little bit and goes into more of an observational mode. But she\u2019s also a cinematographer \u2014 she actually is a cinematographer, and her gift with composition, and she could just make every shot look like a [William] Eggleston. She has such a gift.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence opened up about one of the differences between working with female directors and male directors, revealing…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":270138,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,85432,134,85433,85434],"class_list":["post-270137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-die-my-love","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-lynne-ramsay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270137\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270138"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}