Jennifer Lawrence is making its independent comeback with the upcoming Apple Original movie “Causeway.” It’s after some time away from small films following his Oscar-nominated debut for “Winter’s Bone.” In 2021, Jennifer Lawrence helmed Netflix’s cosmic hit ‘Don’t Look Up’ and, before that, hung up her blue X-Men suit in 2019’s ‘Dark Phoenix’. Now she’s returning to small-scale drama with Lila Neugebauer’s story of an American soldier bringing PTSD home from Afghanistan.

While “mom! flopped and “Red Phoenix” and “Joy” certainly didn’t bust, a movie that Lawrence really regrets? “Passengers‘, the 2016 sci-fi double in which she starred alongside Chris Pratt as spaceship pilots bound for a colony traveling 60 light-years from Earth – to become the only two to exit from hibernation 90 years before their co-travelers. The reviews were poor, and the relationship borders on creepy in the way Pratt’s character manipulates Lawrence’s into becoming his only companion in space.

In a new meeting with the New York TimesLawrence said it was her friend, the pop icon close to EGOT Adelewho told her not to star in the film, which ended up grossing over $300 million on its $100 million budget but received scathing reviews.

She said that after completing the “Hunger Games” trilogy in 2015, she began to feel disillusionment from fans. “I was like, ‘Oh no, you’re here because I’m here, and I’m here because you’re here. Wait, who decided this was a good movie?'”

The only film that confirmed this was “Passengers”. “Adele told me not to! She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to it,” Lawrence said. (The article also details an infamous night at the Pieces gay bar in Greenwich Village where Lawrence and Adele joined everyday people to sing karaoke.)

In the NYT interview, Lawrence also opened up about why she left her agency, CAA, in 2018, returning to a number of the aforementioned films that she felt let her and her fans down.

“I felt more like a celebrity than an actor,” she said, “cut off from my creativity, from my imagination.”

She added, “I discovered that a lot of filmmakers that I really loved and admired had scripts that didn’t even reach me,” saying, “I got sidetracked.”

Consequently, Lawrence is doing something of a homecoming with “Causeway,” taking her back to her breakout role in 2010’s “Winter’s Bone,” which earned her her first Best Actress nomination.

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