On another it’s a homecoming story, about being adrift in the fraught territory of one’s family. On one level it’s a movie about acute post-traumatic stress. (Her Broadway restaging of Kenneth Lonergan’s The Waverly Gallery in 2018 was nominated for the Tony Award for best revival of a play, and its star, Elaine May, won for best actress.) Lawrence plays an American soldier who returns to her hometown of New Orleans after a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan. ![]() Conversation turned instead to her new movie.Ĭauseway is the first film directed by Lila Neugebauer, who comes from the theater world. But I’d been warned that Lawrence was still finding her footing with the topic, boundary-wise. I felt an impulse to ask Lawrence about her baby, about giving birth-all the things two women might normally discuss in a sauna when one of them is a new mom. ![]() Wrapped in flimsy sarongs, we made small talk in the heat, the red light of my audio recorder glowing between us. ![]() ![]() If it’s awkward-slash-comical to undress and go into a sauna with someone a few minutes after meeting them, it is even more awkward-slash-comical to conduct an interview in that situation.
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