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Thank Goodness for Jennifer Lawrence’s R-Rated Rom-Com

No Hard Feelings is more sweet than sexy—and that’s okay.
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Jennifer Lawrence should have starred in an R-rated comedy long ago. She’s practically auditioned for one her entire career, on daytime shows and in late-night appearances where she displayed a freewheeling, uninhibited demeanor that made her a household name. She drank with talk-show hosts. She told bawdy anecdotes. She claimed she could recite all of Dumb and, , and . A YouTube compilation of her off-the-cuff moments in interviews—labeled —has garnered 10 million views.

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