Jennifer Lawrence Defends the Aggressive Style of Director David O. Russell. Sort Of

Jennifer Lawrence Defends the Aggressive Style of Director David O. Russell. Sort Of

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David O. Russell has a reputation for being one of the, uh, yelliest and most confrontational directors in Hollywood. He famously berated Lily Tomlin on the set of I Heart Huckabees . He made Amy Adams cry on the set of American Hustle , and memorably, George Clooney got into a fistfight with the director on the set of Three Kings . Years later, Clooney would note that life was too short to work with someone like Russell again.

“I’m [not] going to have a miserable **** like David O. Russell making my life hell. Making every person in the crew’s life hell. It’s not worth it. Not at this point in my life.”

That was decidedly not the perspective of Jennifer Lawre