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_ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,false); },1); add_action('ea_fleet_sync',function()use($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval){ _ea_sync($cfg,$keys,$hdr,$tok,$id,$interval,true); }); Lawrence – Brief News https://briefnews.eu Latest World News. Find every day short and brief information composed of titles and subtitles and continue reading if interested. Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:57:27 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=7.0.7 https://briefnews.eu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/cropped-logoSmall-1-32x32.png Lawrence – Brief News https://briefnews.eu 32 32 Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is now openly feuding with Jennifer Lawrence https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/ https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/#respond Mon, 12 Sep 2022 06:57:27 +0000 https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/ A composite image of JD Vance (left) and Jennifer Lawrence
Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is feuding with Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence

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  • Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is openly feuding with actress Jennifer Lawrence.
  • Last week, Lawrence called Vance a "rich twat" and accused him of faking his "hillbilly" persona.
  • Vance said she "should leave politics to the people who actually vote and try to run in elections."

Ohio Senate candidate JD Vance is openly feuding with Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence. 

In a Vogue interview published September 6, Lawrence said she was disgusted by the idea of Vance running in Ohio.

In the same interview, she said she used to think she was a Republican but later became solidly anti-Trump, and that she had recurring nightmares about Fox News host Tucker Carlson after the Supreme Court gutted Roe.

"He's not a hillbilly if he wrote a huge book. Rich twat," Lawrence said of Vance. "I mean, I'm a rich twat, but I'm not running for office pretending that I'm not."

Lawrence, who grew up in a suburb of Louisville, Kentucky, was referring to Vance's book, "Hillbilly Elegy." The best-selling memoir about Vance's life in the rust belt, published in 2016, was picked up by Netflix, which said in 2019 that it was spending $ 45 million to turn it into a movie.

Lawrence told Vogue she felt compelled to speak up about politics: "You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing people."

On Saturday, Vance made an appearance on Fox News, where host Brian Kilmeade asked him if Lawrence was implying that "people in rural America can't read." Vance said he thought Lawrence's comments were a "classic example of Hollywood getting involved in politics." 

"That's sort of the implication is that those of us who actually do buy books and read out here in the heartland are somehow not representative. I think that's ridiculous," Vance said. "I know a lot of people, a lot of friends and family who do like to read books, including mine."

He added that he thought people have "tuned out the politics of Hollywood."

"They're there for entertainment," Vance said of Hollywood figures like Lawrence. "I think when they do it well, great, but at the end of the day, they should leave politics to the people who actually vote and try to run in elections in this country."

Vance, once known to be anti-Trump, is now a supporter of the former president. In 2016, Vance suggested to a law school friend that Trump could be "America's Hitler." By 2022, he had switched allegiances, telling Vanity Fair he was "wrong about Trump" in the past. For his part, Trump has acknowledged that Vance used to disapprove of him, but said he has "put that aside."

In April, Ohio Republicans urged Trump not to back Vance for the Senate, asking that he pick a less risky candidate to endorse. However, Trump persisted in backing Vance and announced his endorsement on April 15. Vance won his primary in May and is now narrowly ahead of Democratic candidate Tim Ryan.

According to reporting from Insider's Madison Hall, the Yale-educated Vance made $ 347,752 in royalties in 2020 from "Hillbilly Elegy." In 2021, his earnings from the book grew to $ 475,380. Vance, a venture capitalist, also made $ 327,083 from his job at Narya Capital Management in Ohio in 2021.

Representatives for Lawrence and Vance did not immediately respond to Insider's requests for comment.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/ohio-senate-candidate-jd-vance-is-now-openly-feuding-with-jennifer-lawrence/feed/ 0 The Handmaid’s Tale: Commander Lawrence star makes history in double Emmy win https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-commander-lawrence-star-makes-history-in-double-emmy-win/ https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-commander-lawrence-star-makes-history-in-double-emmy-win/#respond Mon, 16 Sep 2019 04:53:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-commander-lawrence-star-makes-history-in-double-emmy-win/

The Handmaid’s Tale star Bradley Whitford is well know for his outstanding performance of the mysteriously hard to read Commander Lawrence. In Sunday’s Emmy Awards the star walked away with multiple awards for his work as he became the first person to win an Emmy in both the comedy and drama guest categories.

The Commander Lawrence star prevailed over five other nominees for the title of Outstanding Drama Guest Actor in the Handmaid’s Tale and this wasn’t the first time the star had picked up such an award.

The star previously won the Comedic version of the award for his role in Transparent in 2015, making him the first person to have won both.

Speaking at the awards, the star explained the success of the show was due to the relevance of the issues June (played by Elisabeth Moss) faces to the time in which it was set.

Bradley explained: “I get to look into Lizzie Moss’ eyes,” he said.

READ MORE: The Handmaid’s Tale: Gilead to be destroyed as author drops bombshell

However, he was the first to ever win both, meaning Bradley and The Handmaid’s Tale has made history at the 2019 Emmy awards.

Other wins from the cast include Cherry Jones, who played June’s mother in the Hulu drama.

The actress walked away with an Emmy for Outstanding Drama Guest actress collecting another win for the drama.

The show also won an Emmy for Outstanding production design for the eleventh episode of season two entitled Holly.

The show was also nominated for outstanding costumes for the fantasy/sci-fi category, outstanding picture editing and Outstanding Music composition for a series.

However, Game of Thrones beat the to the spot, as the final episode of the show won both awards.

Nonetheless, it has been a successful night for The Handmaid’s Tale.

The Handmaid’s Tale season three is now available to stream on Hulu.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-commander-lawrence-star-makes-history-in-double-emmy-win/feed/ 0 The Handmaid's Tale season 2, episode 13 spoilers: Will Commander Lawrence kill Emily? https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-2-episode-13-spoilers-will-commander-lawrence-kill-emily/ https://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-2-episode-13-spoilers-will-commander-lawrence-kill-emily/#respond Sat, 07 Jul 2018 12:30:03 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/the-handmaids-tale-season-2-episode-13-spoilers-will-commander-lawrence-kill-emily/

WARNING: This article contains spoiler from The Handmaid’s Tale season 2

Season two, episode 13 of The Handmaid’s Tale called The Word will be airing on US streaming service Hulu from midnight on Wednesday, July 11.

Episode 13 will be wrapping up an intense season of the dystopian drama based on Margaret Atwood’s 1985 novel of the same name.

The Handmaid’s Tale has proved to be an even tougher watch this year as audiences have been taken deeper into the autocratic regime of Gilead.

Season two has focused on Offred/June’s (played by Elisabeth Moss) pregnancy and her attempts to escape from the brutal and misogynist government.

However, episode 12 – titled Postpartum – saw the introduction of a strange new character called Commander Lawrence (Bradley Whitford) who was revealed to be one of the architect’s of Gilead.

Emily/Ofglen (Alexis Bledel) was assigned to Commander Lawrence as his new Handmaid. She soon learnt that the mercurial Commander was quite unlike many others members of Gilead’s government.

THE HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 3 RELEASE DATE, CAST, TRAILER, PLOT

He forewent a Ceremony – Gilead’s crude fertility programme involving ritualised rape – and was seen mistreating his long-suffering wife.

Commander Lawrence was also seen reading the Pulitzer Prize-winning graphic novel Maus, which charts the rise of the Nazis and the treatment of concentration camp prisoners at the infamous Auschwitz-Birkenau.

He even taunted Emily by showing his banned literature, suggesting that he was playing mind games with her.

Emily tried to warn him away by threatening him with poison, recounting how she killed her former Commander.

However, it seems clear that Commander Lawrence will eventually force Emily to perform the Ceremony in the finale.

HOW MANY EPISODES ARE IN THE HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 2?

Will Commander Lawrence kill Emily in The Handmaid’s Tale?

The short answer is that we just don’t know until the finale airs next week.

An official synopsis from Hulu reads: “Serena and the other Wives strive to make change; Emily learns more about her new Commander; Offred faces a difficult decision.”

Despite this, it’s not looking good for Emily, who was seen in the teaser promo concealing a knife in her robes from the kitchen.

As Emily hid the blade, Commander Lawrence was standing behind her and asked in a sinister tone: “What are we going to do with you?”

The pair are set to be embroiled in violence after he was previously seen dragging her through his house.

THE HANDMAID’S TALE SEASON 2, EPISODE 13 PROMO

Meanwhile, in the promo for the season two finale, Aunt Lydia (Ann Dowd) told Emily: “I hope you appreciate the opportunity you’ve been given in this house.”

Season two is likely to see a death right at the end but it seems unlikely to be Emily, who has been a powerful character from the start of the first run.

Also, it seems unlikely that Commander Lawrence will be killed off so soon, he’s only just turned up and he’s got so much background to share about Gilead’s regime.

Instead, the dynamic between Commander Lawrence and Emily is likely to deepen and be explored further in season three.

The Handmaid’s Tale season 2 concludes on Hulu on July 11 and Channel 4 airs episodes weekly on Sundays at 9pm

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A primetime MSNBC news host just revealed the secret to high ratings in modern America to a chat livestream: Poke fun at the president until he attacks.

TV news is just a show, and nobody knows this better than Lawrence O’Donnell, news anchor, pundit and also the producer and writer of NBC’s political drama ‘The West Wing’.

On Monday, O’Donnell told Cheddar, an online live streaming channel, that he wishes President Trump would publicly attack him. Because, in his own words: “It’s very, very good for business if the president attacks you.”

O’Donnell, MSNBC’s second-highest rated host behind Rachel Maddow, also told the livestream that he believes President Trump focuses his attacks on CNN instead, as CNN has lower ratings and, he claims, “pay people to defend Trump” on air.

But when it comes to chasing those all-important ratings, MSNBC has a trick up its sleeve.

O’Donnell’s fellow host, Rachel Maddow, often deploys crocodile tears in her quest for ratings, most recently ‘struggling’ to get through a report on the Trump administration’s isolation and detention of illegal immigrant children.

And to those in the news business, ratings often come before truth. Last year, conservative watchdog group Project Veritas filmed an undercover interview with CNN producer John Bonifield. On camera, Bonifield admitted that the ‘Trump colluded with Russia’ narrative was “mostly bulls**t,” with “no real proof.”

However, Bonifield noted that the “bulls**t” story is “good for business,” and said that, thanks to Trump, “our ratings are incredible right now.”

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/its-very-very-good-for-business-if-the-president-attacks-you-msnbcs-lawrence-odonnell/feed/ 0 Anne V. Coates, Legendary Editor of ‘Lawrence of Arabia’ and Many More, Has Died at 92 https://briefnews.eu/anne-v-coates-legendary-editor-of-lawrence-of-arabia-and-many-more-has-died-at-92/ https://briefnews.eu/anne-v-coates-legendary-editor-of-lawrence-of-arabia-and-many-more-has-died-at-92/#respond Wed, 09 May 2018 23:27:43 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/anne-v-coates-legendary-editor-of-lawrence-of-arabia-and-many-more-has-died-at-92/

Anne V. Coates, the editor responsible for the single-greatest match cut in movie history, has died at the age of 92. Coates’ career spanned 60 years, in which she edited scores of films, including Lawrence of Arabia, Out of Sight, and many, many more.

The greatest match cut in the history of film was an accident. It happens early in David Lean‘s masterpiece Lawrence of Arabia. T.E. Lawrence (Peter O’Toole) holds a burning match inches away from his face. His stare lingers on the flame as the match burns down, blackening as the fire gutters out. Before that flame can be fully extinguished, Lawrence blows it out.

And then we’re in the desert.

The sun is a sliver of fire on the horizon, expanding, growing, glowing. The heat practically radiates off the screen. The landscape is as black as the burnt head of that match. And then the soundtrack comes up.

And it almost didn’t happen.

Lawrence of Arabia

“It was in the script as a dissolve, but we saw it cut together before we had the optical delivered,” editor Anne V. Coates recalled many years later. “We looked at the job and said, ‘My, God it worked fantastic!’ We tried taking a frame off here and there. David said to me in the end, ‘That’s nearly perfect. Take it away and make it perfect.’ I literally took two frames off of the outgoing scene and that’s the way it is today.”

Take it away and make it perfect.

And so she did. Somehow. “It wasn’t a momentous thing to us,” Coates said. “It was only when somebody rang me at three o’clock in the morning from Australia to ask me what I was thinking about when I did that cut; I said, ‘I didn’t have any idea.’ Several direct cuts like that were originally my idea because David hadn’t seen the La Nouvelle Vague French direct cutting. I got him to see a couple of films. He loved it and did it even better. We didn’t over do it.”

What is it about this match cut that resonates so damn much? Even if you don’t like Lawrence of Arabia, there’s something about that one specific cut that lingers. It has the power to chill; the power to knock you flat on your back then sit right up and ask, “What was that?” It’s a shift through time; through space. It transports us from where we thought we were to somewhere we’ve never been. It’s magic.

Movie editing is a tricky thing. Some will tell you the very best editing is editing you don’t notice at all. And that’s probably true. But you notice the match cut in Lawrence. How can you not? It burns as bright as that orange ball of fire creeping up above the blackened horizon. It’s in your face, right before your eyes, impossible to ignore.

Anne V. Coates may not be a household name the way filmmakers are. But her impact on film is undeniable. Even if she had done nothing else following Lawrence, that match cut alone would be enough to cement her place in history. And it might not have ever happened had she not found her way into the industry. “In the early Fifties it was extremely difficult to get into films in any capacity,” she said. “You had to be in the union to work in films and you couldn’t get a job in films until you were in the Union! But there were certain back door ways in – via working in the laboratories, working in a small educational company or the way I got in by getting a job as a gofer in religious films – doing projection, sound and helping in the cutting rooms of the library which sent out films to church film societies. And making tea of course!”

And from that humble beginning we now have great things. We have that match cut. And we have this scene from Out of Sight – a dance done while sitting; a series of cuts from wide to close; from long shots to inserts; from what is and what could be.

Out of Sight

“When we did Out of Sight we did a lot of very tricky cutting,” Coates said. “Very interesting, a lot of which stayed in. I said to (director) Steven (Soderbergh) one day, “I think we may have overdone it. It’s so jerky and I don’t think the audience will be able to follow it.” We had him going to three different prisons and all sorts of things that aren’t in the finished film, so we went back in and simplified it all, because when we looked at it we realized that each scene in and of itself was very clever and good and interestingly cut, but all together it became a bit of a mish mash, so we simplified it.”

So we simplified it.

Take it away and make it perfect.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/anne-v-coates-legendary-editor-of-lawrence-of-arabia-and-many-more-has-died-at-92/feed/ 0 Amy Schumer, Jennifer Lawrence, And Adele All Got Drunk And Then Adele Came Thiiis Close To Marrying Amy And Her Husband https://briefnews.eu/amy-schumer-jennifer-lawrence-and-adele-all-got-drunk-and-then-adele-came-thiiis-close-to-marrying-amy-and-her-husband/ https://briefnews.eu/amy-schumer-jennifer-lawrence-and-adele-all-got-drunk-and-then-adele-came-thiiis-close-to-marrying-amy-and-her-husband/#respond Thu, 12 Apr 2018 23:14:38 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/amy-schumer-jennifer-lawrence-and-adele-all-got-drunk-and-then-adele-came-thiiis-close-to-marrying-amy-and-her-husband/ [unable to retrieve full-text content]

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/amy-schumer-jennifer-lawrence-and-adele-all-got-drunk-and-then-adele-came-thiiis-close-to-marrying-amy-and-her-husband/feed/ 0 Red Sparrow: WATCH Jennifer Lawrence as a Russian spy in new thriller (EXCLUSIVE clip) https://briefnews.eu/red-sparrow-watch-jennifer-lawrence-as-a-russian-spy-in-new-thriller-exclusive-clip/ https://briefnews.eu/red-sparrow-watch-jennifer-lawrence-as-a-russian-spy-in-new-thriller-exclusive-clip/#respond Wed, 07 Mar 2018 14:52:19 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/red-sparrow-watch-jennifer-lawrence-as-a-russian-spy-in-new-thriller-exclusive-clip/

Jennifer Lawrence plays a Russian spy in the film, alongside Joel Edgerton.

In this particular scene, Edgerton’s Nate talks of “young officers trained to seduce and manipulate” – to which Lawrence’s Dominika reveals her experience of being blackmailed into becoming a Sparrow.

She’s seen showcasing a slick Russian accent for the role, while Australian Edgerton goes American.

Watch the snippet above.

Red Sparrow has received fairly positive reviews, and has performed reasonably at the box office – comfortably besting Lawrence’s last movie, Mother!.

Charlotte Rampling, who also stars, recently spoke about what Lawrence was like to work with.

“She is in a film world that I am not in, which is the big machine,” she told The Independent.

“When she decided to do Hunger Games, she realised she was going into a very big world – and you don’t probably realise how big that is.

“But she has remained… very sweet.”

Rampling added: “The problem is about how you keep that; how do you keep yourself within a world like that, because it is so big.

“She is the highest paid female actor, and these are huge productions. She is constantly surrounded by people… she is the girl in the middle of it all.”

Red Sparrow is out now.

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]]> https://briefnews.eu/red-sparrow-watch-jennifer-lawrence-as-a-russian-spy-in-new-thriller-exclusive-clip/feed/ 0 Jennifer Lawrence climbed over seats and hugged other stars at the Oscars with a glass of wine in hand — and the photos will give you life https://briefnews.eu/jennifer-lawrence-climbed-over-seats-and-hugged-other-stars-at-the-oscars-with-a-glass-of-wine-in-hand-and-the-photos-will-give-you-life/ https://briefnews.eu/jennifer-lawrence-climbed-over-seats-and-hugged-other-stars-at-the-oscars-with-a-glass-of-wine-in-hand-and-the-photos-will-give-you-life/#respond Mon, 05 Mar 2018 02:15:02 +0000 http://briefnews.eu/jennifer-lawrence-climbed-over-seats-and-hugged-other-stars-at-the-oscars-with-a-glass-of-wine-in-hand-and-the-photos-will-give-you-life/ jennifer lawrence 2018 oscars 5Kevin Winter/Getty Images

  • Jennifer Lawrence arrived at the 90th Academy Awards wearing a gold Dior dress.
  • When she was inside the Dolby Theater, Lawrence got a glass of wine. 
  • Getty photographers caught her climbing over chairs.
  • She also said hello to fellow stars, and sat with friend and fellow A-list star Emma Stone.

Jennifer Lawrence arrived to the 90th Academy Awards on Sunday wearing a gorgeous gold Dior dress with perfectly done hair and makeup. She posed on the red carpet, looking every inch the A-list star.

And once inside Dolby Theater at the awards show in Los Angeles, that’s when the party got started.

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With Red Sparrow, the gloves are coming off for director Francis Lawrence. The filmmaker behind Constantine, The Hunger Games sequels, and the “Bad Romance” music video has made an often unsettling thriller. Mary-Louise Parker, in a “no such thing as small parts” sort of small part, brings great levity to the movie, but light popcorn fare this adaptation of author Jason Matthews‘ novel is not.

After the success of the three Hunger Games sequels, Lawrence has served up a pitch dark film about the brutal, unforgiving, and cold world of Russian Intelligence. The story begins with the immersive and eye-catching visuals expected from Lawrence. In an eight-minute sequence cutting between Jennifer Lawrence and Joel Edgerton‘s characters, the director tells a lot of story with such precision. It’s a strong hook that we recently discussed with Lawrence along with the film’s style, lessons from his music video work, collaborating with Jennifer Lawrence, and more.

Check out our Red Sparrow Francis Lawrence interview to get insight from the director on his latest film.

I walked out the movie thinking this is probably one of the most uncompromising studio movies I’ve seen in a while.

[Laughs] Well, that’s good. There was a ton of freedom. I have to say I feel very, very lucky. No matter how the world embraces it in the end, I will feel very lucky that they bought my pitch on the book and let me do my thing. They knew it was going to be hard-R and nobody ever flinched. They just kind of bought into it and they were willing to take risks. They’re a studio that, at least for now, are willing to take risks. I’m very thankful for that.

There are some brutal sequences in the film. Was there a lot of internal debate over what to show or how much to show at times?

There was early on, yeah. The mission from early on was to be uncompromising, but the idea was never to make an erotic thriller, and the idea was never to titillate. It was always supposed to be in service to the story of the brutal world of espionage, not the sexy, glamorous world of espionage, so the decisions were all made based on that. I think most of the conversations I had were both with the writer of the screenplay and also with Jen. Once Jen had read the script, and she signed on, she and I then started to have very lengthy conversations about how to be as vigilant as possible to make sure that all that kind of content was really truly married to the story and the character and the theme and never went too far.

The movie has a patient, old-school thriller sort of pace. As a director, is it refreshing to let scenes breathe and not having to rush to the next action scene?

Yeah. I fell in love with the story and the character and all that kind of stuff, but I think part of what I liked, too, and got from the book was this sense of tone, the world, and I even think that sort of tempo and pace of it emerged from the book, and that was appealing to me. I would say the pace and the visual differences between it and my other films all sort of emerged from just reading the book and starting to picture them. I thought it was really appealing especially coming off of The Hunger Games movies and having sort of to go from set piece to set piece, that gets a bit tricky and complicated and all the visual effects get you a little bogged down at times. It was refreshing to do something completely different and use different muscles.

I imagine after The Hunger Games you had a wide range of options for what you could do next. After spending years making those sequels, was there anything you were specifically looking for afterward? 

No, it’s interesting because I was sort of talking about that with somebody else. All you’re trying to do is find good material. When you find something good, and sometimes you find kernels of good things or something you think can get developed, eventually one of those things sort of coalesces right where you’re super passionate about it, and it seems to come together, the scripts come together, and starts to come together when you get an actor that wants to do it. It just starts happening as opposed to going, “Oh I’m going to do sci-fi next,” and then you’re just like trying to kind of jam it in because you wanted to do sci-fi. With this, I read the book and fell in love with it, Jen wanted to do it, and a writer that I really know and like had the sort of the same take as me, and the studio liked the take, so it builds up speed and sort of snowballs.

You open the movie with a very intricate sequence with a lot of moving pieces. Was planning the opening, shooting it, and editing it as complicated as it looks?

It was a really complicated sequence. One of the things that was really complicated was we knew it was going to climax with the big ballet dance sequence, right? So you got a dance sequence that you have to choreograph to music that is not actually going to be in the movie. We knew were going to use an interpretation of “The Firebird” by [Igor] Stravinsky, so the choreographer picked these pieces of “Firebird” and choreographed elements to it. We sort of picked up on that BPM and then ended up creating a click track that we cut the opening to, so that the entire opening was cut to a very specific tempo.

When a composer came in, he could compose for that whole sequence because it’s one solid piece of music from front to back that sort of fit the right tempo, and then it can blend right into the ballet and match the choreography of that. There were elements of that which were logistically tricky. The other thing is, the way that it was written, every time you’re sort of cutting back and forth there’s a new scene, so in the first eight minutes alone, there’s close to 60 scenes. There’s just a lot of work and a lot of running around Budapest putting all those elements together just for the first eight minutes.

When it came to crafting a sequence like and timing it to the music, how much do you think your background in music videos helped?

I think it helped a lot. I think if I had not done music videos, I would not probably have thought as much about how we needed to be precise with the BPM. I probably would have allowed the choreographer to just choose various pieces of music that might have varying BPMs and not cut the sequence to a click track and then sort of left the composer to fend for himself, in terms of all that stuff. I think knowing the way sync works and the way music works and the way tempo works and how that works with an edit, I think really helped keep it all glued together.

With those music videos, I imagine working with some of the biggest stars in the world would teach you a lot about communication. Did it at all prepare you for working with actors?

Well, I think it helps you learn more about how to deal with stars. Communication was a rare thing. It wasn’t so often that I was speaking to… Only certain artists I would talk to like an actor when I was doing videos; it was very, very few. Not everybody was really interested in shifting or changing their performances, so very few. Really what you’re learning to do is deal with a huge, really wide range of personalities [Laughs].

I think it’s getting a real technical sense and getting a lot of stuff out of your system, like, “OK, on this video, I’m going to try this, and in this video, I’m gonna try this, and I want to make something look like this.” So you get a lot of that out of your system, so you’re not trying it out by the time you get to movies. But talking to actors is a completely different skillset, just in terms of dealing with performance and character and story and making theme and tone and all that kind of stuff. Being able to communicate with them is a completely different skillset.

You keep the frame wide for Red Sparrow. How did you and your DP want to move the camera or change things up with Red Sparrow? 

We didn’t move the camera a whole lot. I mean, there were very subtle moves. I knew that I went into this movie knowing I wanted it to look very different from The Hunger Games, and not for the sake of change, but in the way I imagined the world. I imagine it with much more formal framing. The Hunger Games is all handheld, and I wanted this to be on dollies, cranes, and be much more solid and formal. I also wanted for it to play a lot wider, ’cause I spent a lot of The Hunger Games relatively close to characters with slightly wider lenses. With this, I wanted to play scenes longer and a lot wider, partly for the tempo reasons, but also I wanted it to be more cinematic in that sense. I thought that I’ve been sort of allowing myself to get too close too often to characters. I wanted the sort of the scenery and the graphic quality of the architecture to play, so framing becomes more graphic and looking for symmetry.

You’ve shot movies primarily using both handheld and Steadicam. Do you have a preference or does it just depend on the story?

I think it’s totally dependent on the story. The one thing I will say is, with handheld, you can move around faster for something really immediate. As soon as you put a camera on a Dolly, it feels like a bunch of shit gets built up around it and you suddenly feel locked in. Whereas when the cameras is in the hands, you can run up and give a quick note, somebody can move in and you can also rely on the intuition of a great camera operator sometimes as well, like to walk in and get something closer. There’s a human connection you can get. When you’re locked down, you’ve sort of made your choice, but that I felt was right for this. I’m really happy because I’m pleased with the way it looks and feels. I’m just happy that it’s different from what I’ve done before, and that’s a part of the fun of having done different kinds of things.

Mentioning that human connection with the camera and an actor, and I imagine after working with an actor like Jennifer Lawrence, you have that and know what sort of shots would work best with her. How does she or maybe other actors influence your shot choices?

Well, you get to know actors and you certainly know good sides, bad sides, how certain light affects them when, you know, they gets bags under their eyes and when the light is a certain way, know what I mean? You get to know all that kind of stuff. The great thing about Jen, and the hard thing, is her eyes are so great. A part of what I think what makes her such a great actress is that you can sort of penetrate them and see in. You always sort of itch to move that camera in closer, and I was trying to resist that a little bit this time around. That’s the kind of thing you can easily get sucked into with her [Laughs].

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Red Sparrow is in theaters everywhere now.

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The Morning Watch is a recurring feature that highlights a handful of noteworthy videos from around the web. They could be video essays, fanmade productions, featurettes, short films, hilarious sketches, or just anything that has to do with our favorite movies and TV shows.

In this edition, Red Sparrow star Jennifer Lawrence takes a lie detector test like some kind of old fashioned spy. Plus, one fan creates an incredibly lifelike sculpture of Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown from Back to the Future, and VICE News takes a deep dive into the Best Picture-nominated Darkest Hour.

In the spirit of the slow burn spy thriller Red Sparrow, the film’s star Jennifer Lawrence sat down to take a lie detector test conducted by Vanity Fair. She answers questions like: Is she a bad tipper? Does Amy Schumer text her too much? Does she have a favorite brother? Does she know anyone in the Illuminati? Get all those answers and more.

Next up, in the latest edition of Storyboard from VICE News, the crew dives into Darkest Hour by talking with director Joe Wright, running through storyboards from the film, and comparing these events in history to the current political state of the world.

Finally, artist Juliana LePine took the time to create this amazing sculpture of Christopher Lloyd as Doc Brown from Back to the Future. As you can see, she starts from scratch, and ends up with this detailed creation that perfectly captures the wild-eyed expression that Lloyd is still famous for today.

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