![]() ![]() “She said, ‘Andrew, I’m so sorry, you’re not going to be able to go back to Harvard this semester.’” (As if he weren’t impressive enough, Feldman attended Harvard for a semester and then put his enrollment on hold to pursue his career.Has this ever happened to you? You're at some crazy Airbnb getting ready to open up a can (maybe you're making one of these canned tuna recipes) when you discover that the kitchen doesn't have a can opener-and no one remembered their Swiss Army knife. And I was like, I’m going to have to look Jennifer Lawrence in the eyes today and say, ‘Let’s fuck.’ That’s something that I have to do.” He must have done it well, as it was Lawrence herself who called Feldman to tell him he got the part. “One of the last things I did was a chemistry read with her,” Feldman recalls of his audition process. It was really, really a bad experience,” he deadpans, before singing her praises as both a big sister and a mentor. And I think people are going to be surprised with not just how funny it turns out to be, and how uncomfortable it maybe makes them, but also how beautiful this relationship is and how heartfelt it is.”ĭid Feldman’s off-screen relationship with Lawrence match the beauty of Maddie and Percy’s? “She’s terrible. “Constantly, every day talking about what it meant and how it would manifest in a truthful way. (In an early scene, Percy pepper-sprays Maddie after assuming she’s trying to kidnap him rather than date him.) “We were so thoughtful about it throughout,” he says. The difference in age between Feldman and Lawrence is very much the point of the film, which finds most of its humor in the comic juxtaposition between Lawrence’s elder millennial and Feldman’s anxiety-ridden Zoomer. I’m disinterested in a movie, and specifically a comedy, about people who are perfect and make the right decisions all the time.” I am an adult, and this is a cringe comedy. “We always knew that that was going to happen, because what is a comedy if it’s not at least a little controversial? But Percy is an adult. “Let’s have a conversation about this,” Feldman says in response. The trailer also sparked heated debate about the age gap between Feldman’s Percy and Lawrence’s Maddie. The trailer for No Hard Feelings went viral when it hit the web in March, seeming to promise a no-holds-barred, raucous R-rated film, the likes of which have grown increasingly rare since Judd Apatow churned out comedies like Superbad and Knocked Up in the early aughts. “It was terrible,” says Feldman, “but also perfect for this character who is so stuck in himself and stuck in his own bubble.”Īndrew Barth Feldman as Percy in No Hard Feelings. So for the duration of the shoot, he lived out of his childhood bedroom. “For the most part, we were down the street from my childhood home,” says Feldman. He might have gotten the apartment even sooner, if not for a funny quirk of filming No Hard Feelings on Long Island. Now he’s embarking on a press tour for his first theatrically released feature, No Hard Feelings, an R-rated comedy in which he stars opposite Jennifer Lawrence. He followed that with a recurring role on High School Musical: The Musical: The Series, starring Olivia Rodrigo. But Feldman is not like most 21-year-olds.Īfter winning best actor at the Jimmy Awards-the Tonys equivalent for high school musical theater-in 2018, Feldman was scooped up to play the titular role in Broadway’s Dear Evan Hansen at the tender age of 16. “I was like, I have to have my own place.” At 21, it’s normal-even a bit early-to be transitioning into adulthood and striking out on your own. ![]() “I got this apartment while we were filming,” Andrew Barth Feldman tells me over coffee a few blocks from his new digs on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. ![]()
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