David O. Russell And Jennifer Lawrence’s ‘Joy’ Gets 2015 Release Date
By Angie Han/June 6, 2014 9:23 am EST
It’s unclear whether Lawrence is actually locked in for the lead right now, but the mutual interest is definitely there. Russell had his Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle star pegged as his top pick as of a few months ago. And she’s apparently already told him that she wants to do it. “I can just imagine David looking at somebody mopping and being like, ‘Yeah, that’s my next screenplay,’” she joked.
The real-life Mangano was a Long Island single mom struggling to make ends meet when she came up with the idea for the self-wringing Miracle Mop. The product became a sensation on QVC. Later, she followed up that invention with the even more popular Huggable Hangers. In 1999, she sold her company Ingenious Designs to HSN in a multi-million dollar deal.
