It’s baffling when you think about it: Jennifer Lawrence has never really had an all-out comedy role. Which is strange, since she’s always come across as a funny person. For the most part, she’s ended up battling regimes (The Hunger Games movies), being caught in traumatic maelstroms (Mother!), or bringing the mutant mayhem (from X-Men: First Class onwards). Even her role in Adam McKay’s satirical Don’t Look Up had her facing the end of the world. But this summer, she’ll be going full-comedy for the first time in No Hard Feelings, the new R-rated laugh-fest from Good Boys director Gene Stupnitsky. Check out the trailer here:
As neatly explained in the trailer, the film’s (slightly strange) premise sees Lawrence’s Maddie facing financial ruin, and taking on an unusual job: she’s hired by a wealthy couple to ‘date’ their son Percy before he heads off to college. And by ‘date’, they mean, help him lose his virginity. The awkward Percy is played by relative-newcomer Andrew Feldman (Gen Z viewers will recognise him from TikTok masterpiece Ratatouille The Musical), and while oblivious to Maddie’s advances, she soon sees the unique person he is, removed from his parents’ anxieties about him. And Lawrence brings a few big laughs in this trailer alone – her elastic face is comedy gold – so hopefully there’s plenty more where that came from.
Elsewhere, the film stars Matthew Broderick (as Percy’s dad), The Bear's Ebon Moss-Bachrach, and Natalie Morales – and Lawrence is producing under her Excellent Cadaver banner as well as starring. We’ll see if Stupnitsky can build on the promise of surprisingly sweet R-rated comedy Good Boys when No Hard Feelings comes to cinemas this summer.