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Brian Tyree Henry INTIMIDATED to Meet Jennifer Lawrence
How bash you go friends with Jennifer Lawrence?
While there's nary playbook, Brian Tyree Henry precocious revealed however helium and the histrion broke the crystal connected the acceptable of their caller movie Causeway.
"I deliberation astatine 1 constituent we were sitting successful our structure unneurotic and she was speechmaking [Sylvia Plath's] The Bell Jar," helium recalled to E! News astatine the 2022 Gotham Awards connected Nov. 28. "And I benignant of knocked it retired of her manus and I was like, 'What are you doing? Why are bringing this publication here?' And she's like, 'Because I wanna beryllium deep.' I was like, 'I consciousness that.'"
Henry said helium and Lawrence would "talk astir everything" similar their lives and shared experiences, which "connected america adjacent deeper." Although, the histrion admitted he was initially tense to conscionable the Oscar winner.
"I was truly intimated due to the fact that she's specified a powerhouse," helium continued. "I've beauteous overmuch seen everything's she's done. And it was truly chill due to the fact that she started successful an autarkic film, truthful to travel backmost to specified an autarkic movie this mode was similar her getting backmost to her roots. And I was like, 'Oh my god, and they chose maine to bash that with.'"
Over time, Henry and Lawrence's friendship became adjacent stronger. "As we traveled done this full movie, our relationship conscionable grew and grew and grew," the Atlanta alum added. "And that's benignant of what happened—that was the culmination of however these 2 characters we represent came astir and it was what was happening betwixt her and I betwixt takes that built the chemistry of it."
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And they soon realized they had a batch successful common, including a mutual admiration of Adele.
"The archetypal clip I met Adele was astatine the Gold Party for Beyoncé, and maine and Adele danced unneurotic the full night," Henry said. "She astir apt won't retrieve that, but it's a large portion of my heart. Like, it was really, truly a large time."
In their caller movie Causeway, Henry portrays a mechanic named James portion Lawrence portrays a U.S. solider named Lynsey who is struggling to readjust to her beingness successful New Orleans aft suffering a traumatic encephalon wounded successful Afghanistan. As Apple TV+ notes, the "two improbable strangers find solace successful newfound relationship arsenic they navigate their travel from grief to healing."
"It's truly casual to get definite scripts that are benignant of inundated with this is what the struggle is, this is what the climax is, a batch of exposition," Henry told E! News. "But this publication was truly elemental successful that it was truly astir the quality connection, astir these characters trying to link connected a quality level done grief, and guilt and loss. And determination was besides a stillness astir it that I truly wanted to explore—the things that were unspoken oregon unsaid. And with the absorption of Lila [Neugebauer], we were capable to seizure that."
Causeway is disposable to watercourse connected Apple TV+ now.
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