(L-r) Michael Sheen, Jennifer Lawrence, and Chris Pratt attend ‘photo call for Columbia Pictures’ ‘Passengers’ at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, Dec. 9, in Los Angeles.\u00a0 (Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n
Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and \u201cJurassic World\u201d star Chris Pratt say they are keen to visit India and \u201cwould love to\u201d experience the country\u2019s culture, writes Yoshita Singh. <\/b>\u2013 @siliconeer #siliconeer #Bollywood #Entertainment #Hollywood #India #JenniferLawrence #JurassicWorld #ChrisPratt #MichaelSheen #Passengers<\/p>\n
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\u201cLet\u2019s do it,\u201d Lawrence, the world\u2019s highest paid actress, said in an interview to PTI here when asked if she and Pratt have any plans to visit India.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to. It\u2019s really vast and I would love to experience it,\u201d Lawrence said.<\/p>\n
Pratt, who stars with Lawrence in Columbia Pictures\u2019 sci-fi action-thriller \u201cPassengers,\u201d too sounded excited on the prospect of visiting India.<\/p>\n
\u201cI would love to go to India. I think that\u2019s our next vacation. I want to go and check it out. It\u2019s such a huge, huge nation, so many people, such a beautiful place,\u201d he said in the interview.<\/p>\n
Pratt said he loves the movies that have come out of India.<\/p>\n
\u201cI feel like I have gotten glimpses into India but I haven\u2019t been able to get there. So I would like to go.\u201d<\/p>\n
The actor said he hopes his visit to India will be for vacation and not for work.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf we came there to promote (a movie), that will be one thing but when you are on work you never get to experience any of the culture. So probably it will be vacation,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
\u201cPassengers,\u201d which already released in the U.S. and will hit Indian theatres on January 6 in English, Hindi, Tamil and Telugu, is about two strangers Jim and Aurora, who are on a 120-year journey to another planet on a technologically-advanced cruiseliner-style space ship when their hibernation pods wake them 90 years too early.<\/p>\n
Jim and Aurora are forced to unravel the mystery behind the malfunction as the ship teeters on the brink of collapse, jeopardizing the lives of the several thousand passengers traveling from Earth on the spaceship to the distant planet for starting a new life.<\/p>\n
The movie also stars Welsh actor Michael Sheen, who plays \u201cArthur,\u201d a robotic bartender on board the ship.<\/p>\n
On the thought of being alone and traveling to another planet, Lawrence said getting there \u201cwould be amazing\u201d and will be the \u201cadventure of a lifetime\u201d but by the \u201ctime you get there, everybody you have ever known or loved is dead, so it\u2019s definitely a commitment.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cPassengers\u201d employs cutting-edge technology to produce stunning special effects as it chronicles the lives of Lawrence and Pratt on the spaceship.<\/p>\n
One of the most stunning visuals come when the gravity on the ship fails and Jim and Aurora find themselves weightless.<\/p>\n
Aurora is in a swimming pool when the gravity fails and she is trapped in the huge ball of water as it starts surging upwards.<\/p>\n
On shooting the swimming pool scene when the gravity fails, Lawrence said, \u201cI have never seen anything like that in a movie before so I was excited and nervous to shoot it. But it was tough work. It was a week in water and doing tank work but it was definitely worth it.\u201d<\/p>\n
Pratt said the way technology is being used to make and see movies is both \u201cexciting and challenging.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cIn terms of making the movies, the technologies that are now out that are really mind blowing. Every movie I do, it seems like there is a new filming apparatus… that are creating the most dynamic physical shots that you could have never accomplished before\u201d with simpler technologies.<\/p>\n
He added that the flip side to technology that is \u201cscary\u201d is when \u201ceverything you say is written in stone. You are human and make little mistakes and that can resonate around the world in less than 10 minutes. Millions and millions of people can hear if you say something wrong or screw up, so the pressure is on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
(L-r) Michael Sheen, Jennifer Lawrence, and Chris Pratt attend ‘photo call for Columbia Pictures’ ‘Passengers’ at Four Seasons Hotel Los Angeles at Beverly Hills, Dec. 9, in Los Angeles.\u00a0 (Emma McIntyre\/Getty Images) Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence and \u201cJurassic World\u201d star Chris Pratt say they are keen to visit India and \u201cwould love to\u201d experience the…<\/p>\n