When your best friend is a -time Grammy winner, you might want to listen to her instincts. Jennifer Lawrence is opening up about a major “what if” in her career, and it involves a piece of advice from her close pal, Adele, that she now deeply regrets ignoring.
The Hunger Games star recently looked back at her filmography and singled out the sci-fi romance Passengers as a moment where she should have hit the brakes. The twist? Adele saw the red flags long before the cameras started rolling.
According to Lawrence, the “Hello” singer took one look at the script—or perhaps the project’s buzz—and gave her a blunt warning. “Adele told me not to do it!” Lawrence revealed. “She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies.’ I should have listened to her.”
The film, which paired Lawrence with Chris Pratt, was a box office success but faced a wave of critical backlash over its controversial plot. Looking back, the -year-old actress admits that the project was part of a period where she felt her “quality” control was slipping.
The confession has sparked a wave of conversation on X (formerly Twitter) and TikTok, with fans praising Adele’s “talent scout” energy. “Adele really said ‘Don’t go,’ and J.Law went anyway,” one fan joked. Others noted that the duo’s friendship is clearly built on total honesty.
This isn’t the first time Lawrence has been brutally honest about her career trajectory leading up to her acting hiatus. In a candid interview with Vanity Fair, she admitted she felt the public—and she herself—needed a break from the “J.Law” show.
“I was not pumping out the quality that I should have,” she admitted at the time. “I think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me.”
The actress recalled feeling like she had hit a wall where her every move was scrutinized. “It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right,” she shared. “If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’”
That feeling of overexposure led Lawrence to step away from the spotlight to focus on her personal life, including her marriage to Cooke Maroney and the birth of their son, Cy.
However, the “J-Lawssance” is now in full swing. She made a triumphant return to the screen in Netflix’s star-studded Don’t Look Up in , proving she still has the comedic and dramatic chops that made her a household name.
Fans of the Oscar winner have even more to look forward to. Lawrence is currently starring in the gritty drama Causeway, which follows a soldier struggling to adjust to life at home after a traumatic brain injury. The film, which hit theaters and Apple TV+, marks a return to her indie roots—the kind of “quality” she felt she was missing.
As for her friendship with Adele? It seems the two are still as tight as ever, even if Lawrence didn’t take her “space movie” advice the first time around. Next time a script comes her way, she might just want to check if it has the Adele seal of approval first!
Jennifer Lawrence And Josh Hutcherson Are Returning To The Hunger Games Universe
The rumors are true, and months of denials have officially aged like milk. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are reportedly returning to the world of Panem, reprising their iconic roles as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark in Lionsgate’s highly anticipated prequel, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
At first, the idea seemed impossible. The new film takes place decades before Katniss ever volunteered for the Hunger Games, making the return of Lawrence and Hutcherson appear unlikely. However, the filmmakers have reportedly found a clever way to bring the beloved characters back without disrupting the timeline of the original trilogy.
The key is a framing device reportedly taken from Suzanne Collins’ latest novel. The story is expected to feature an older Katniss and Peeta spending time with Haymitch Abernathy as he tells them about the horrifying experience he endured during his own Hunger Games. This approach gives fans an opportunity to see the original characters again while allowing the prequel to remain focused on Haymitch’s story.
The revelation is especially amusing considering Josh Hutcherson’s recent comments about the project. For months, the actor insisted that he knew nothing about the upcoming film and emphasized how much he still loved the franchise. In Hollywood, however, such denials can often mean that a carefully worded confidentiality agreement is keeping the truth under wraps. Fans now have plenty of reason to laugh at those earlier statements.
Sunrise on the Reaping centers on the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell. This particular Games was designed to be especially brutal, with twice the usual number of tributes being sent into the arena. The story follows a young Haymitch as he struggles to survive one of the most devastating and psychologically intense Games in Panem’s history.
Bringing Katniss and Peeta into the story through a framing sequence could create an emotional connection between Haymitch’s past and the characters fans have followed since the beginning of the franchise. It also gives Lawrence and Hutcherson a chance to return without changing the events established in the original films.
Fans have already taken to social media to celebrate the reported reunion, with many joking about how successfully the actors managed to keep the secret. The combination of familiar stars, Suzanne Collins’ source material, and director Francis Lawrence returning has created enormous anticipation.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping is scheduled to arrive in theaters on November 20, 2026. Whether Katniss and Peeta appear only briefly or play a more meaningful role remains unclear, but their return could make this new chapter one of the franchise’s biggest cinematic events yet.
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