Jennifer Lawrence Admits She Never Should Have Accepted The Role In Passengers
Jennifer Lawrence has never been one to mince words. A fact that can leave fans divided about how they feel regarding the actress. And when she recently spoke about her time working on the movie Passengers, Lawrence was straight to the point when she said that she never should have taken the role.
While Passengers was a critical flop, it was a box-office success. That success could be directly attributed to Lawrence starring in the film, shortly after her success with The Hunger Games trilogy. This means that the Silver Linings Playbook actress was paid a great salary for her role; a cool $20 million to be exact. But Jennifer Lawrence admits she never should have accepted the role in Passengers.
Passengers Was A Critical Failure
By casting two large names such as Lawrence and Chris Pratt in a film, there should be no reason for the movie to not be a success. And while Passengers made hundreds of millions of dollars, there were so many missteps in the film that it was a critical failure.
One of the major missteps made by the film was turning it into a romance. Had Passengers been a thriller, more fans and critics may have been able to get behind the movie. Instead, critics have called the film one that “attempts to make Stockholm Syndrome sexy” and “turns a likable guy into a mild stalker, then a de facto long-game murderer.”
These comments come from the fact that the storyline behind Passengers is that a spacecraft with 5,000 people on it is headed to start a new colony. They are supposed to be asleep for 120 years and only wake when the spacecraft nears its final destination
Instead, an asteroid hits the spaceship and disables one of the pods that people were asleep in. That person is Pratt’s character, Jim.
After spending a year alone, Jim begins to obsess over Lawrence’s character, Aurora. That obsession eventually leads Jim to break Aurora’s pod as well so he does not have to be alone.
There is no discussion about how wrong it was for Jim to not have consent to break the pod (Misstep). There is no reason that those who developed the spacecraft would not have accounted for needing to dodge things, like asteroids, in space (Misstep).
And there just is not a plot that is solid enough with this film that even the best of actors could have saved.
