Jennifer Lawrence Learns Yellowstone Creator Taylor Sheridan Was Her Acting Coach

before long Jennifer Lawrence An Academy Award winner, she was an aspiring actress who was beginning to lay the foundation for a Hollywood career.

At one point, Lawrence went to see an acting coach who eventually gave her money back because, he said, she already had everything and there was nothing he could teach her. She didn’t remember who that teacher was until Deadline’s Mike Fleming Jr. told her on Saturday during a panel for her Apple/A24 film bridge In the movie Finalists: The Los Angeles event.

Towards the end of the session, Fleming told Lawrence that when he spoke to him Yellowstone originator Taylor Sheridan on his growing world of telenovelas, and how a young actress, Isabel May, provided a spark in 1883 when she came to read about her lead role in Mayor of Kingstown. Instead, he built the year 1883 around May, which told the origin story of the Dutton family in Yellowstone.

Sheridan tells Fleming that May reminded him of Lawrence, who came to the classes he was teaching while Sheridan was a struggling actor and supplemented his income by teaching acting. This was before Lawrence broke out Winter Bones.

When Fleming finished telling the story, Lawrence could only say one word.

“what?” She said.

“I remember going to see somebody and he telling my mom, ‘Here’s your money.'” Just don’t put her in any acting lessons whatever you do. “Was that Taylor Sheridan?”

He was the show’s prolific creator and director, Lawrence said, “I have to tell my mom.”

Sheridan who turned to writing after dropping out of a regular role on it Sons of Anarchy On the Money, he was nominated for an Academy Award for his writing hell or high waterand currently has several pre-works in spin-offs Yellowstonewhich just returned for its fifth season. The simultaneous premiere on Paramount Network, CMT, Pop and TV Land averaged 15.7 million viewers, and is the most-watched show across all of television in 2022.

Lawrence made her Apple/A24 debut bridgewhich premiered at the Toronto Film Festival and debuted on Apple TV+ on November 4.