Jennifer Lawrence has a false tooth in her new movie: the actress told what happened
For Jennifer Lawrence, filming the Netflix movie 'Don't Look Up' meant going through a series of embarrassing moments and even the production having to replace one of her teeth with CGI. We explain why.
The actress who rose to fame for her portrayal of Katniss Everdeen in 'The Hunger Games', she took time away from the movies, but now returns in the Netflix movie 'Don't Look Up'.
In the plot of the film, Jennifer Lawrence plays an astronomer who, together with her teacher played by Leonardo DiCaprio, discovers an asteroid that is about to collide with Earth. However, by wanting to alert the world and the government, no one takes them seriously.
Director Adam McKay's tape hits Netflix on December 24, but for Lawrence the filming was one of the most anecdotal and challenging in her career.
Jennifer Lawrence and her CGI fake tooth
The 'Joy' actress confessed to Yahoo! In an interview she did a drugged scene with Meryl Streep, but that wasn't the only or most embarrassing thing that happened on set.
In the program 'The Late Show' with Stephen Colbert, she said that the teeth seen in the film are not entirely hers, as one of her teeth is false and was computer generated (CGI) in post production .
The actress said that at the beginning of the recordings she lost a tooth when she bit into something hard, but because they were recording during the pandemic, Netflix's protocols to prevent contagion prohibited them from going anywhere other than the recordings.
“And I lost a tooth, like, very early in the filming… she was eating a lollipop, it was really very stupid. It was a dental veneer. But if anyone knows what is under the veneers, it is much worse, it is like a pointed fang. So, I lost it and couldn't go to the dentist due to COVID, so they made my tooth on the computer. "
Jennifer's other accidents
Lawrence on set
But in addition to recording the entire tape without a tooth, the 'X-Men: First Class' actress also said that she had problems with a piercing that her character used and several times she ended up passing it to her throat.
Like Kate in the film she has a jovial and rebellious look, she wears an earring on her nose. The filming used metal pieces, but the problem was that they could be separated and the actress ended up inhaling the piece.
In addition to her surprise at accidentally swallowing the pieces, Lawrence a piercieng had an immediate reaction and she spat them out. She confessed that she repeatedly spat at DiCaprio between scenes.
