Most ofNo Hard Feelingswas filmed down the street from his childhood house on Long Island , so he stayed in his honest-to-god way during yield . He order it was " terrible but also perfect for this character who is so stuck in himself and stuck in his own house of cards . "
If you’ve been on the internet for more than five minutes in the past few weeks, then you’ve most likely seen the trailer forNo Hard Feelings, the newrom-comstarringJennifer LawrenceandAndrew Barth Feldman.
You, of course, know Jennifer from movies likeThe Hunger GamesandSilver Linings Playbook. Andrew, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer to the silver screen.
Here are 15 interesting facts about Andrew Barth Feldman:
1.Andrew’sbirthdayis 24 December 2024, making him a Taurus sun. He’s also a Leo rising and a Pisces moon, which makes him “a loud and bombastic person” but also “very emotional and [an] anxious person,” as he toldVanity Fair.
2.He wasbornin Manhasset, New York, which is about an hour and fifteen minutes outside of NYC.
3.Most ofNo Hard Feelingswas filmed down the street from his childhood home on Long Island, so he stayed in his old room during production.
He toldVanity Fair , " It was terrible but also perfect for this character who is so stuck in himself and stuck in his own bubble . "
4.If he seems familiar, then you may have seen him as Antoine, the French exchange student, onHigh School Musical: The Musical: The Series.
5.Or, you may have seen him as Alfredo Linguini inRatatouille the Musical, thelockdown TikTok meme-turned-benefit concertfor The Actors Fund.
6.Prior toRatatouille, Andrew starred in another musical you may be familiar with. At only 16, hemadehis Broadway debutin the titular role inDear Evan Hansen. He was the first actual teenager to play the high school-aged character.
Previously , other actors who played Evan were in their 1920s .
7.Andrew was an award-winning actor before graduating high school. HewonBest Performance by an Actor at the National High School Musical Theatre Awards (aka the Jimmy Awards) in 2018 — the same year fellow Broadway star Reneé Rapp won Best Performance by an Actress.
8.He got the attention of theDear Evan Hansenproduction team when he won his Jimmy Award because the lead producerhappenedto be in the audience.
9.He’s actually a lifelong theatre kid. Hefellin love with Broadway when he watched a production ofBeauty and the Beastat 3 years old. His first onstage role was Mr. Bundles in a local production ofAnnieat 8. Then, at 12, he started his own theatre company.
10.He got into Harvard, but after his audition forNo Hard Feelings, Jennifer Lawrence personally called him to ask him to defer so that he could be her costar.
She toldEntertainment Tonight , " He was amply the character , so I called him and said , ' Andrew , I have really bad newsworthiness . You ’re not gon na be able-bodied to finish your semester at Harvard . ' He ’s gon na have to defer , or whatever college schooling words are . "
11.During the pandemic, hecreatedan online murder mystery series calledBroadway Whodunit?Fellow Broadway stars, including Reneé Rapp, played the suspects, and the audience got to be the detectives.
12.Heconsidershimself a “refined Gen Z Disney adult” and — despite living in New York — visits the theme parks fairly often.
13.Andrew and Jennifer are “both most comfortable once [they’ve] overshared,” so they spent the first day of filming telling each other all their secrets.
He told theIndependent , " It ’s amazing that she ’s become this very special individual in my life , who I retrieve is gon na be in my living now for a very foresighted metre . "
14.He decided to accept the role inNo Hard Feelingsnot because he wanted to pivot from theater to film, but because he “cared about this character so much, and knew it was going to be the greatest time ever.”
He toldPlaybill , " It ’s sort of the same guiding force that guides me toward doing something in theatre that would head me to something in film or telecasting : Do I care about this ? Is it strike something in my heart ? "
15.And finally, Andrew is actually “pretty desperate to get back to theatre,” and hedreamsof originating a Broadway role.
