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New Retrospectives Reassess Jennifer Lawrence’s Range, From Katniss to Recent Standouts

Fresh retrospectives spotlight Jennifer Lawrence’s range through a new best-roles ranking alongside on-set accounts of the physical demands behind her performances.

Overview

  • ComicBook.com issued a new ranking of Lawrence’s seven best roles, naming Katniss Everdeen first and Silver Linings Playbook’s Tiffany Maxwell second while including recent turns in Die My Love and Causeway.
  • The ranking spans franchises, prestige dramas and comedies, underscoring a filmography that critics continue to view as varied and durable more than a decade into her career.
  • Koimoi highlights the extensive prosthetic process for Mystique in X-Men: First Class, reporting roughly eight hours in blue makeup during production.
  • As reported by Koimoi, Lawrence nearly declined The Hunger Games before undertaking intensive training for Katniss and performing her own stunts.
  • Further on-set anecdotes noted by Koimoi include a broken tooth during Don’t Look Up that was fixed digitally, a rib injury during an intense Mother! scene, and American Hustle improvisation in a film that earned ten Oscar nominations.