In an interview with The New York Times today, Jennifer Lawrence revealed that Adele advised her not to star in Passengers. Looking back on the 2016 bomb, in which she starred opposite Chris Pratt, she “should have listened to her [Adele]” to have passed on the job offer.
To this day, Passengers is looked at as one of the biggest flops in the post-Hunger Games world for Jennifer Lawrence. A 30% on Rotten Tomatoes and grossing $300 million from its approximate $110 million budget. The film made her start to rethink the trajectory of her career after the blockbuster series that assisted in launching her into the mainstream. Looking back, she felt that the singer’s advice should have been taken.
“Adele told me not to do it! She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to her.”
Jennifer Lawrence got advice not to do Passengers from Adele
The story followed the two leads as they awoke from malfunctioned sleeping pods in a ship set for a colony planet. The film was directed by Morten Tyldum (The Imitation Game) and written by Jon Spaihts (Dune). The two leads were joined by Lawrence Fishburne, Michael Sheen, and Andy Garcia.
After the final Hunger Games movie and Joy, which gained her an Oscar nomination, Jennifer Lawrence was not finding the same kind of success with movies like Passengers and the late X-Men films from Fox. After Dark Phoenix, she took a break, with that being her only movie in 2019, and coming back in 2021’s Don’t Look Up. Now she is gearing back up to where she was with higher-quality films. This year, she will be in the drama Causeway, which releases on November 4 on Apple TV+. Up ahead, she will star in the comedy No Hard Feelings and the drama Bad Blood.
