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Jennifer Lawrence Competes To Be The Best Zelda Fitzgerald, And Said To Be ‘Less Stressed’ In Romance With Darren Aronofsky

By Stacey Cole
Published on: 18:19 PST, Dec 16, 2016

Jennifer Lawrence and Scarlett Johansson are two of the most influential actresses of our time, according to E! Online. But it happens by bad chance that they are being pitted against one another.

Jennifer Lawrence and Johansson will soon become the center of a comparison battle called “who plays the late Zelda Fitzgerald better?” The two actresses are set to portray the wife of author F. Scott Fitzgerald in two separate biopics in the coming months.

But apparently, that’s only the start of the problem because Amazon will debut its period drama TV show called Z: The Beginning of Everything starring Christina Ricci early next year. It means that three actresses, Jennifer Lawrence, Johansson, and Ricci, will be portraying the same character over a short period.

Zelda Fitzgerald died nearly 70 years ago in a fire at a hospital in North Carolina, but Hollywood draws inspiration from her personality to this very day. It is said that both Jennifer Lawrence and Johansson’s Fitzgerald biopics are on the fast-track to be made into films.

Both biopics will explore Fitzgerald’s personal life, offering important details about her life that had a large impact on shaping her personality. Jennifer Lawrence’s project is titled simply Zelda.

In the film, Jennifer Lawrence will be reuniting with The Hunger Games executive producer Allison Shearmur, while Emma Frost is penning the script, which is based on Nancy Milford’s best-selling biography of the same name. The Hollywood Reporter revealed that Inferno director Ron Howard is developing the film.

Johansson’s project, meanwhile, will be based on a more famous novel compared to that from which Jennifer Lawrence’s project is being adapted. The Lucy actress will portray Zelda in the film titled The Beautiful and the Damned, which is inspired by F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel of the same name.

In the novel, Fitzgerald describes his marriage with Zelda. Johansson’s project doesn’t have a director yet, and it is as yet unclear when Jennifer Lawrence and Johansson’s projects will begin production.

But what is already crystal clear is that both Zelda(starring Jennifer Lawrence) and The Beautiful and the Damned (starring Johansson) will become hit films thanks to their A-list leads. In fact, the two actresses are in Forbes’ top three list of the highest-earning female stars.

Forbes has recently revealed that Jennifer Lawrence raked in $46 million in 2016. Melissa McCarthey came in at the No. 2 spot, while Johansson rounded up the top three with $25 million. Lawrence attributes her financial success thanks to the final installment of The Hunger Games, grossing a whopping $653.4 million.

In other news, Jennifer Lawrence is now less stressed, according to People magazine. But it’s not only the fact that she is the highest-earning actress of 2016 that brings her comfort (although that’s probably very comforting), but also her new beau, director Darren Aronofsky, that makes The Hunger Games actress happy.

It was recently revealed by a People source that Jennifer Lawrence is more relaxed in her new romance with Aronofsky compared to her previous relationships. The pair has been reportedly dating for several months now.

The source also said that Jennifer Lawrence seemed “very stressed out” when she was dating Coldplay frontman Chris Martin. The Hunger Games actress and Gwyneth Paltrow’s ex-husband dated on and off for about a year before calling it quits.

The source reveals that now Jennifer Lawrence has finally found comfort in dating the Black Swan director. The source explained that the biggest problem of dating Martin was that the singer was always in the spotlight.

“With Darren, it will probably be different. He does not attract attention like Chris does.”

Both Jennifer Lawrence and Aronofsky are “very low-key” about their love life, the source added. So is seems like they are a perfect couple! But of course, as with virtually every celebrity romance, rumors have surfaced that the pair is already having problems in their relationship. Gossip Cop has recently refuted these rumors, however, citing their own source who claims that Jennifer Lawrence’s relationship with Aronofsky is fine and that rumors to the contrary are “so dumb.”

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