Laura Benanti Gushes Over ‘Smart and Funny’ Jennifer Lawrence, Talks Motherhood

Laura Benanti pulled back the curtain on costar Jennifer Lawrence and revealed she’s “more” enjoyment than fans probably think.

“You forget in two minutes of meeting her that she’s a motion picture star,” Benanti, 43, completely informed Us Weekly on Friday, June 23, though advertising their movie No Tough Thoughts. “She’s just a lady. She’s just a standard man or woman who’s type and intelligent and humorous and considerate and hardworking and engaged.”

The New York indigenous plays Allison Becker in the film, who together with her spouse, Laird (Matthew Broderick), enlist Maddie (Lawrence) to convey their shy teenage son, Percy (Andrew Barth Feldman), out of his shell before heading to faculty.

Although Benanti portrays the mother of a teen in the film, in truth, equally she and Lawrence, 32, have much younger young ones. The Tony winner shares daughters Ella, 6, and Louisa, 11 months, with partner Patrick Brown, though the Hunger Video games star welcomed her initial little one, son Cy, with partner Cooke Maroney in February 2022.

“I’m not in the practice of supplying persons guidance, but we unquestionably swapped stories,” Benanti informed Us when asked about her and Lawrence’s on-set parenting conversations. “You know, [the] very good and poor. Like, ‘Today I had a really hard time.’ Or, ‘I skip my kid.’ Solidarity in motherhood I feel is truly significant.”

The Broadway star mentioned that she didn’t want to “air [their] private conversations” and favored to “respect” Lawrence “in that way.” Benanti, however, discovered that the costars did bond over the “joys of motherhood, the worries of motherhood, what we are attempting to do, what we wanna do in another way.”

The Supergirl alum gushed: “She’s a typical person, [who deals with] all the items that any other mom feels.”

Benanti joked that the Oscar winner’s personality grew to become even extra clear on established immediately after she and Broderick, 61, allegedly encountered ghosts.

Pursuing a late-evening shoot, Benanti and Broderick stayed at “a gorgeous aged kind of castle of a hotel” so they could be prepared for their early simply call time. Benanti described the place to Us as “absolutely terrifying” and “full of ghosts” amid the renovations.

While Broderick didn’t believe in the supernatural beings, Benanti was confident something spooky was taking place at the hotel. The scary evening, which also included a upkeep guy functioning on the flooring at 1 a.m., “sparked a conversation that working day on established about haunted residences,” which enticed Lawrence.

“Jen and I have been tremendous into the discussion, to the position wherever they had been like, ‘Action.’ We ended up like, ‘Hold on!’ [and kept talking],’” Benanti recalled. “So that was a pleasurable change of activities.”

No Hard Feelings is now in theaters.

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With reporting by Christina Garibaldi