Casting
What actor was prevented from working on the movie Silver Linings Playbook due to having to film The Dark Knight Rises?
Silver Linings Playbook
Russell initially intended to make the film with Vince Vaughn and Zooey Deschanel, but went on to make "The Fighter" instead. Mark Wahlberg was set to work with Russell for the fourth time but had to drop out after delays in production created a scheduling conflict. Russell had planned to work with Bradley Cooper on an adaptation of "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies", but that fell through. Cooper's performance in "Wedding Crashers" impressed Russell, who noted his "good bad-guy energy", saying "You're not sure where he's coming from." Cooper told Russell "he had been heavier and angrier and more fearful" at the time of that performance and had drawn on those feelings for it. Russell was excited that Cooper would bring those qualities to Pat Solatano. Anne Hathaway was cast as Tiffany Maxwell but due to scheduling conflicts with "The Dark Knight Rises" and creative differences with Russell, she dropped out. Other actresses who were considered for the part included Elizabeth Banks, Kirsten Dunst, Angelina Jolie, Blake Lively, Rooney Mara, Rachel McAdams, Andrea Riseborough and Olivia Wilde. Russell did not believe Lawrence was suitable for the role and her audition was only a formality. He thought Lawrence (21 at the time of filming) was too young to play against Cooper (37), but her audition changed his mind. "There's an expressiveness in her eyes and in her face, that many stars have to work for, that's ageless," he said. Russell compares Lawrence to the character Tiffany, describing her as confident but one of the least neurotic people he knows, with the confidence and glimpses of vulnerability needed to play Tiffany. Tiffany went through several iterations. She was initially meant to be a goth. Lawrence dyed her hair black and did test shoots in heavy goth makeup, but Harvey Weinstein balked at this. The character remained messed-up yet confident, with small goth touches such as the dark hair and a cross. To her surprise Russell asked Lawrence to put on weight for the role. Russell also convinced her to speak in a lower register, despite Lawrence thinking her naturally low voice makes her sound like a "chain-smoking hermit. "According to "Entertainment Weekly", Lawrence said she didn't have a handle on Tiffany at first, which was what excited her about the role. "She was just a character I 100 percent did not understand at all... She's like, 'I'm messed up, I'm not like everybody else, I've got issues. Take it or leave it because I like myself. Lawrence and Cooper had no previous dance experience. In less than a month, Mandy Moore, a choreographer for "So You Think You Can Dance", taught them the dance sequences. Moore describes Cooper as having "some real natural dancing ability" and Lawrence joked that before training began, she was a bad dancer, "like I'm a dad at a prom." Lawrence said of the climactic ballroom dance, "None of that was improvised, absolutely not. I'm a terrible dancer, so I would never have been able to do any of that. When it finally came together, that scene really was just as fun as it feels."