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10:42 am - 01/20/2013

Jennifer Lawrence Trashes Her Oscar Rivals – for Laughs



How to get the jump on your sister Oscar nominees? Host Saturday Night Live – and come out punching.

That was Jennifer Lawrence's modus operandi this weekend, with the Silver Linings Playbook's Best Actress contender taking good-natured swipes at her competition during her silver-tongued opening monologue on the NBC comedy show.

About Jessica Chastain, she said: "In Zero Dark Thirty you caught Bin Laden. So what? In Winter's Bone I caught a squirrel, and then ate it."

Naomi Watts: You were in The Impossible. You know what else is impossible? You beating me on Oscar night."

Quvenzhané Wallis, the 9-year-old nominee for Beasts of the Southern Wild: "You think you can beat me? [In best Gary Coleman voice] 'What you talkin' 'bout, Wallis?' Also, the Alphabet called. It wants its letters back."

And Emmanuelle Riva, from the French film Amour: "An 85-year-old French lady. Um, yeah, I think I can take you."


Also in line for ribbing by the rest of the cast on the show, which featured The Lumineers as the musical guests, were disgraced athlete Lance Armstrong (played by Jason Sudeikis), reputed hoax victim Manti Te'o (Bobby Moynahan), outspoken Golden Globes honoree Jodie Foster (Kate McKinnon) and the scowling, Globes party-pooper Tommy Lee Jones (Bill Hader).

Though not personally at the end of a satirical sharp stick, Lawrence did tip her hat to her Hunger Games persona Katniss Everdeen by participating in a mock Post-Hunger Games press conference.

The running gag was how could Katniss go for Peeta (played by Taran Killam) because he's so short. The gamers were also asked if they used performance-enhancing drugs.

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fauxkaren 20th-Jan-2013 04:50 pm (UTC)
The writing was bad, but Jennifer's performance didn't help things. She came off as stiff and awkward most of the time.
howlcosmiclove 20th-Jan-2013 04:52 pm (UTC)
mte
angelmonster 20th-Jan-2013 04:53 pm (UTC)
I would too if I had to say that shit.
fauxkaren 20th-Jan-2013 05:03 pm (UTC)
Good delivery could have made it less painful to watch though.
the_pinkdress 20th-Jan-2013 05:17 pm (UTC)
yeah just because someone is "funny" in candid moments doesn't make them a good comedic actor. neither does being a comedian, actually. i don't think jennifer has even had that much experience with comedies in her acting career, anyway.
browniecakemix 20th-Jan-2013 05:51 pm (UTC)
I actually feel like SNL would be a terrible barometer for comedic acting ability anyway because it calls for such a specific skill tbh. Not every comedic actor is a comedian, kwim?
robinsparkle 20th-Jan-2013 10:12 pm (UTC)
Yeah, I think the people who do well at SNL are the ones who get loud, energetic and very into the skits. Jen has this nonchalant approach to humor in real life, so I had a feeling it would be a train wreck trying to force her to be funny on cue.

In fact, the 2 best skits she did were 1) the waitress one where her character was very quiet and sarcastic/dry and 2) the one where she was playing Katniss again lol
chuk_is_dazzled 20th-Jan-2013 05:22 pm (UTC)
mte
riookierin 20th-Jan-2013 05:55 pm (UTC)
Mte. The stanning in this post is nagl.
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