In the saga of Jennifer Lawrence and Darren Aronofsky’s erstwhile romance, it seems as if everything circles back to Mother! Their relationship began after the filming of the poorly-reviewed movie and ended, a year later, after its theatrical release. And now, it turns out that it may have been nothing but Mother! all day, every day. According to J.Law’s “Actors on Actors” Variety interview with Adam Sandler, her auteur boyfriend just wouldn’t shut up about his controversial film while they were dating.
“Dating the director was different, because we’d be on the tour together,” she said. “I’d come back to the hotel, and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is a movie. He comes back from the tour, and that’s all he wants to talk about. I get it; it’s his baby. He wrote it; he conceived it; he directed it. I was doing double duty trying to be supportive partner while also being like, ‘Can I please, for the love of God, not think about Mother! for one second.'”
“And then he would start reading me reviews,” she continued. “I finally was like, ‘It’s not healthy. I’m not going to do it, because if I read it, I start getting defensive.’ Especially because it’s my man. I don’t want to sound in an interview that I’m defending what we’re doing in any way. It’s awesome, what we did. The people who hate it really hate it. But it’s nothing that needs to be defended. If I read a negative review, I just feel defensive.”
Look, we’re not saying the relentless Mother! talk is why they broke up, or anything. All we’re saying is that nerding out nonstop about a pet project would put a strain on any relationship. And when that pet project happens to involve your girlfriend being harassed nonstop by all of humanity due to the actions of a narcissistic artist character who is obviously supposed to be you but God? Might be a deal-breaker.
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