Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence’s one of the best performances to date is in David O. Russell’s film. The romantic comedy film was a commercial and critical success. It received several accolades, including an Oscar award. Silver Lining Playbook boosted the career of the leads of the film. Despite being an immaculate film, there was a small plot hole that could have got it ridiculed by the fans.
The 76-year-old actress, Jacki Weaver, spotted a major error in one scene, which could have led fans to ridicule the film. She saved the film with her quick wit.
Actor Jacki Weaver saved the Oscar-nominated film from getting ridiculed
Jacki Weaver is a famous actress of the 70s and 80s era. She played the role of Bradley Cooper’s mother in the Silver Lining Playbook. The actress shared in an interview with the Wall Street Journal about an incident while shooting, which saved the film.
Weaver recalled,
“I was sitting there with three hundred other people in the ballroom watching the dance scene. It’s crucial that they get five points in order to win the parlay bet. The judges kept holding up their scores in take after take. I’m not great at math, but I kept adding them up thinking, ‘That doesn’t add up to five.’ So I told one of the producers that it didn’t average five, and he said, ‘Oh my God!’, and they changed it. So yeah, I saved the film.”
Jacki Weaver is a famous Australian actress who received her first Oscar nomination for her role in the 2010 crime film Animal Kingdom. Later, in 2012, she received her second nomination for Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence’s film Silver Lining Playbook.
Jacki Weaver on playing Bradley Cooper’s mother in Silver Lining Playbook
Weaver is the sanest character in the whole cast of Silver Lining Playbook. She holds the family together despite her obsessive-compulsive husband (Robert De Niro) with a gambling problem and her bipolar son (Bradley Cooper). Her son was released from a mental institution for nearly killing his wife’s lover.
In a conversation with Vulture, the actress shared that her height is almost the same as Cooper’s real mother. Talking about her relationship with Bradley Cooper in the film as a mother-son duo, she shared,
“His own mom is a really beautiful Italian Philadelphian, with a fabulous accent. Salt of the earth, and adorable. But the height thing, I’m under five feet, so some of the crew were teasing me, ‘How could you possibly give birth to Bradley Cooper?’ Because he’s such a big boy. He’s like 6”1’.”
The diva also shared how she molded her accent for the film with the help of Bradley Cooper. She said,
“For the first week or so, I had a fantastic voice coach, and having Brad around helped. My character in Silver Linings is walking a tightrope, so if she seems tentative, it’s because she wants to keep the peace, and it comes out in the voice.”
Silver Lining Playbook grossed $236 million worldwide. It was nominated for eight categories at the 85th Academy Awards, and Jennifer Lawrence won the Oscar for Best Actress.
Silver Lining Playbook is available for streaming on Apple TV.
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Source-Vulture and Wall Street Journal
