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The No Hard Feelings manager Gene Stupnitsky addressed concerns implicit the film's arguable 13-year property spread betwixt Jennifer Lawrence and Andrew Barth Feldman's characters.
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The No Hard Feelings squad hopes determination are nary hard feelings implicit their movie.
Gene Stupnitsky, the movie's manager and co-writer, precocious addressed criticisms implicit the raunchy comedy's plot, which centers astir 2 consists of parents hiring 32-year-old Maddie (Jennifer Lawrence) to "date"—a euphemism for thing overmuch much intimate—their 19-year-old son, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman).
While the premise has led to eyebrow-raising connected societal media implicit the characters' property spread and concerns implicit imaginable creepiness, Stupnitsky remains assured that, upon seeing the comedy, viewers volition travel distant with a antithetic opinion.
"If you consciousness that mode erstwhile you travel retired of the movie, I would beryllium surprised," Stupnitsky told The Hollywood Reporter in an nonfiction published June 24. "We took large pains to beryllium cautious astir the ick origin due to the fact that it could spell that way…We took a humanist attack and I deliberation that's each you tin inquire for."
Lawrence seemingly reacted to the buzz successful an interrogation with USA Today successful June, noting that the drama calls backmost to risqué films from the aboriginal aughts.
"You're alert that you're making thing that's truthful violative and truthful wrong," she said. "And you person it successful your caput like, 'God, I haven't seen a movie similar this successful a agelong time,' but more, 'Oh, no. Is this going to beryllium OK?'"
And she's not the lone formed members speaking out about the project. Laura Benanti, who plays Percy's mom Allison, said No Hard Feelings satirizes helicopter parents, the word for people who intensely oversee their children's lives.
"It's a cautionary tale," she told THR. "If you are a chopper genitor who puts your kid successful specified a bubble, they bash not cognize however to beryllium extracurricular of that bubble, you are going to marque the nonstop other and insane choice, which is what they are doing here. I consciousness similar it is simply a precise satirical look astatine what tin hap if you bash not springiness your children a longer leash to fig things retired for themselves. Otherwise, you're going to extremity up curating their beingness forever."
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Matthew Broderick, who portrays Percy's dada Laird, besides agreed, portion reflecting connected his ain experiences of dropping his and Sarah Jessica Parker's lad James Wilkie disconnected astatine college.
"I conjecture what happens is erstwhile a kid goes disconnected to school, it's truthful frightening that they'll beryllium blessed and they'll marque friends and they'll instrumentality attraction of themselves that immoderate parents spell to immoderate magnitude to marque that modulation work," helium told THR. "And it's a hard time. I've been done it. But you truly person to fto them marque it connected their own. But these parents determine to messiness with nature."
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