(NEW YORK) — Jennifer Lawrence and Bradley Cooper are no strangers to sharing the big screen. Now, they’re teaming up again — along with co-star Robert De Niro and director David O. Russell — for the movie Joy.
“When we met her, she was 20 years old on Silver Linings Playbook,” Russell told 20/20 co-anchor Elizabeth Vargas. “She had not had Hunger Games yet. [She] asked Robert De Niro what it was like to be recognized on the street.”
Loosely inspired by the real-life home shopping entrepreneur and inventor Joy Mangano, the film features Lawrence co-starring alongside Cooper.
“I feel very safe [with Lawrence],” Cooper, 40, said. “I can turn my brain off as an actor. I think, having to learn that dance routine [in 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook], we really didn’t know each other at all. Talk about being vulnerable with somebody.”
Lawrence, 25, who snagged a Golden Globe nomination for her role in Joy, agreed that her on-screen chemistry with Cooper comes naturally. “David made us a bizarre kind of form of siblings, in a way,” she said.
Lawrence and Cooper also starred in Russell’s 2013 Oscar-nominated comedy, American Hustle.
Joy will be released in theaters Christmas Day.
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