the first thing I'm really honored Jennifer's parents are here and Gary
Morris
you know what did you do I just want to say to you guys good job was having a
really good day he made Jennifer Lawrence yes I'm really nervous and I am
terrible at this
my questions were just so embarrassing but I just wanted to tell you guys on
the right person to do this interview because around the time when joy was
inventing her mom up I threw out my ironing board in a fit of misplaced
feminism or maybe I just didn't want to iron anymore when my mom found out she
started crying and told me it was the only thing we had inherited from her
mother
but I would also like to say that it is a truth universally acknowledged that
you two are two of the most talented and original people in an industry that does
not seem embarrassed about the endless replication of the mediocre and I also
want to tell David that the shot of the Three Sisters on the couch looking
fierce and the fighters pretty much a doubt family portrait I am just such a
huge fan of both of you so david you've always had strong interesting women
characters joey is your first major feature centered on a woman you said
well great show
well the ironing board came back fired because I know to become a bit of a
gangster to succeed so we're gonna look at our first clip and see that
her lawyers are you doing
go home and watch the numbers like 50,000 mobs are we going every dollar
including your home it could have been handled better lit up another shot i
dont one tied or anyone else to try it it should be me
celebrities as well as do the selling showed he was told it to you who taught
you how to use it and who convinced you that it was great after you thought it
was worthless
give us a
the nineties and rose to be a mogul on QVC David you said you're interested
endearing women who make their way in the world against all odds you mentioned
some of your mom's friends or even your mom and and you mention Lillian Vernon
who started the first big catalog for household products like why would the
guy where did you find any interest I don't have much choice about my mom she
lived in the same house and many ventures her kitchen table in the
kitchen choose either trying to get her friend elected mayor of our town which
he did it she was involved in the league of women voters getting out the vote and
she also tried to you know make a book for to try to do things which he
couldn't get back in the workplace I want your struggle with that and she was
very formidable and Lillian Vernon I like his Mount Vernon is next to my
hometown Mamaroneck and she was married to a Latino which gave me the notion of
having Jennifer married Edgar Ramirez to see this lady speak Spanish to to her
husband and have the best divorce ever in cinema where there any particular
products and there that you did you ever order anything from there or you know I
can tell you what I love from joy you know back in the day my mom lillian
vernon was like in our house kind of a cool deal and Corey Cooper Bradley's
mother was our consultant at KBC she ordered all those things that last night
were the Audrey Hepburn boats
to the Premier Travel himself had them up in his house because he mopped his
house as I my job was to clean my floors and vacuum my old house we had a sponge
mop and Corey had the actual other mob which reaches into quarters better and
Bradley took it to Georgetown with ya and to me is the toiletry kit the joy as
she made which is like this thing that pulls up and take out the compartments
your kids toys in the tour crayons but the point is this to me it was not about
a lady just made a thing was about somebody who was hidden from herself and
went from the age of 10 to the age of 45 and what the magic was when she was 10
and what it meant when she got married and what it meant when she got divorced
what is the meaning of joy and emotion at each of the stations of life and
what's it mean to become a boss and what do you what is success really cuz i
watch this one in five years ago from a killer walked on our set rather
innocently to have to handle an enormous amount of attention and and
responsibility and how to handle it gracefully with dignity and how to
handle the one she loves and that's a big deal has a big heart and so does she
and so but it does mean you have to become fierce 49 questions
you're looking for Lawrence talk during its a fairytale complete with fairy
godmother a punishing stepmother type and horrible half-sister that makes the
point about how the prince is not necessary
David you said it's half fiction because you had to come up with assault for
journey that was worthy of jennifer and I think that that's grading your kids
because he withdrew permission to you through life to create a fable but I was
curious with the issue in general how much can read or change your character's
life when you're using the real name Aaron Sorkin ran into some trouble with
that on Steve Jobs and the Raiders of spotlight were very vocal about the
importance of sticking to their so I mean your situation is a different one
but I wondered if you had any thoughts on that issue
well I want the license to drive her dreams I don't know what joy when used
the last name I'm gone ok we know I don't know what your actual nightmares
where I want to create a character was haunted by the loss of her childhood
dreams that something a filmmaker has to create many of the things in the movie
are completely true
the most important things are completely true the fact that there was a gun range
next to the metal garage her father and the fact that her mother was obsessed
with soap operas is made up the psyche of a 10 year old girl
the fact that you had to she lost that the business trips out of our hands
numerous times as it happens
businesses as gangsters and people will fight you for it until you learn how to
fight back and she did have to go along the California and Dallas have showdown
that I consider worthy of the best westerns are the best gangster films
that i've seen
but haven't seen it done with a woman a nineties I haven't seen it done with the
mother so that's what I loved about it that's all true all that WoW Jennifer
you're in a movie about cleaning up but you've talked about being sloppy or
unafraid of dirt as you put it
I wouldn't say I'm not afraid to like get my body dirty I just wondering if
you guys had its worst rating that I wondered if you guys have any odd couple
relationship where I need one was for David and I don't live together as more
stuff than me he always has his food bag random vitamin and I'm a bad person but
every time I get sick I never particularly is that I love but every
time I'm sick I always get one
flowers don't use a little bit of it I do do you ever shop from the television
shopping channels now I tried to and I was trying to enjoy she was selling some
product I was like oh my god I need that and then I realized that I had recorded
all of the episodes in 15
it was this thing that i dont means so so hard I don't need it at all it's a
tent where you can put your clothes and driving without a dryer I'm an owner of
a washer and dryer but she just such a good seller that like he wanted so badly
so that I'll be able to get that to somebody I know someone's dorm red stain
glass that I ordered one night after a glass of wine and i cant figure out
anyone to give it to her hanger most of a segment on Bravo today telling her
hangers velvet ones I won't say it now cause you problems and you'll get those
and don't you ever in finding more stuff for you guys know if you think of things
you need when you have her give a lot of ideas
yeah we got an invention that you came up with you put it in the hands of an
inventor for free
publicly so we can get the right back
Jennifer working tomorrow to use my house since the first Hunger Games came
out
jennifer's true answers that you she said her blessing was that she had a and
so I never she would give us all sorts of chores and you need to do this and
you gotta do you listen to the call Mike but she couldn't live with it not being
done and nothing ever got done well enough or fast enough so I knew if I
just kept watching TV for five more minutes she was going to do it so I got
a lot of workers in the morning but by the afternoon you were doing it