Exclusive: Brian Tyree Henry talks Causeway and working with Jennifer Lawrence
Currently playing in select theaters and globally on Apple TV+ is Causeway, the new drama starring and produced by Academy Award-winner Jennifer Lawrence.
Directed by Lila Neugebauer and co-starring Brian Tyree Henry, Linda Emond and Stephen McKinley Henderson, Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence plays Lynsey, a military engineer who has returned to the States from Afghanistan with a debilitating brain injury after an IED explosion.
It's a painful and slow recovery as she relearns to walk and re-trains her memory, aided by a chatty but tender caretaker (Jayne Houdyshell). But when she returns home to New Orleans she has to face memories even more aching and formative than those she had in service: a reckoning with her childhood.
Staying with her mother (Linda Emond), with whom she shares a tense relationship, all Lynsey wants to do is return to her work as an engineer. Her doctor (Stephen McKinley Henderson) is wary, and so in the meantime, she gets a job cleaning pools. When her truck breaks down she meets James Aucoin (Brian Tyree Henry), who works at the auto repair shop and offers her a ride home. Slowly they start to rely on each other for company and solace. James, it turns out, is also suppressing his own past trauma.
Best known for his role as Paper Boi in the FX comedy-drama series Atlanta, which just concluded its run after four seasons, Brian Tyree Henry has been making incredibles strides on the big screen with outstanding performances in Crown Heights, Widows, If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Joker, The Outside Story, Godzilla vs. Kong, Eternals, and more recently Bullet Train, opposite Brad Pitt and Aaron Taylor-Johnson.
His work has garnered several accolades including two Primetime Emmy Award nominations, a Tony Award nomination, three Gold Derby nomination, and more recently a Best Supporting Performance nomination for the 2023 Independent Spirit Award for his role in Causeway.
Blackfilmandtv.com’s Wilson Morales caught up with Henry as he spoke about his role in Causeway and working with Jennifer Lawrence/
