Jennifer Lawrence's Director David O. Russell Watched Her 'Grow Up & Handle Herself'

Jennifer Lawrence wears an oversized wool coat while stepping out on Sunday morning (December 13) in New York City.

One night earlier, the 25-year-old Hunger Games star attended a screening of her new movie Joy for the Directors Guild of America.

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“I’ve watched Jennifer grow up and handle herself,” director David O. Russell recently told Deadline. “I watch her now saying to the crew, ‘I think we should work French hours,’ which is a very Joy-like thing to do. Every union has to vote on it separately. You don’t have lunch. You don’t stop. What we found difficult was to start and stop and start again. So we said, ‘Let’s just go.’ and we loved it.”

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