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The film sees Lawrence's character, Lynsey,
returning from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury
sustained in an attack. Reluctantly returning to her hometown
and her mother's house to recover, she befriends a local car
mechanic (played by Brian Tyree Henry) and finds comfort and
cure in the unlikely friendship.
Directed by Lila Neugebauer, the movie was shot before the
COVID-19 pandemic and put an end to Lawrence's brief break from
acting.
"I love Marvel movies or superhero movies as much as the next
person, but there was just something that was so refreshing. I
just hadn't seen something like that really since 'Winter's
Bone,'" she said, referring to the 2010 movie that won Lawrence
her first Oscar nomination.
"So I felt adamant that I really, really want to make this. I
didn't know when because I was still, you know, on my hiatus.
And then after getting dinner with Lila, I just knew that she
was the person, and then we were shooting three months later,"
Lawrence told Reuters at the film's London Film Festival
premiere on Saturday.
The pandemic allowed the film team to fine tune and sit with the
movie. Like her character, Lawrence, who became a mother earlier
this year, said she went through a transformation.
"I started the film when I was engaged. I came back married and
pregnant. And, you know, I personally had such a different
perception of staying, of home," Lawrence said, adding that she
was "absolutely" eager to produce more movies in the future.
"Causeway" starts streaming on Apple TV+ on Nov. 4.
(Reporting by Hanna Rantala; Editing by Leslie Adler)
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