--- title: Jennifer Lawrence, Spielberg Attached to Lynsey Addario Adaptation description: Lynsey Addario's memoir, 'It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War,' is coming to the big screen canonical: https://time.com/3729471/jennifer-lawrence-steven-spielberg-lynsey-addario/ author: Nolan Feeney article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2015-03-03T00:56:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2023-12-13T16:13:25.000Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Spielberg Adaptation of War Photographer's Memoir og:description: 'It's What I Do' is coming to the big screen. og:url: https://time.com/3729471/jennifer-lawrence-steven-spielberg-lynsey-addario/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1c628b0cb7a609b/698781cc35ba6f7afbc075dc/jennifer-lawrence1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2231 og:image:height: 1255 og:image:alt: 26th An Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the 26th Annual Producers Guild Of America Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Jan. 24, 2015 in Los Angeles.nual Producers Guild Of America Awards - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Spielberg Adaptation of War Photographer's Memoir twitter:description: 'It's What I Do' is coming to the big screen. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltf1c628b0cb7a609b/698781cc35ba6f7afbc075dc/jennifer-lawrence1.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Lawrence to Star in Spielberg Adaptation of War Photographer's Memoir > Sponsored content. 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Jennifer Lawrence arrives at the 26th Annual Producers Guild Of America Awards at the Hyatt Regency Century Plaza on Jan. 24, 2015 in Los Angeles. Steve Granitz—WireImage/Getty Images  by [Nolan Feeney](https://time.com/author/nolan-feeney/)  ## Nolan Feeney Updated: Dec 13, 2023 4:13 PM UTCPublished: Mar 3, 2015 12:56 AM UTC War photographer Lynsey Addario’s memoir has barely been out for a month, but the bidding war for its film adaptation [appears to be over](http://deadline.com/2015/03/steven-spielberg-jennifer-lawrence-warner-bros-its-what-i-do-lynsey-addario-war-photographer-1201384706/). Warner Bros. is finalizing a deal to bring _It’s What I Do: A Photographer’s Life of Love and War_ to the big screen, TIME confirms, with Steven Spielberg attached as director and Jennifer Lawrence in a starring role. Addario apparently met with all of the bidders, who reportedly included Darren Aronofsky (who wanted Natalie Portman as the lead), Working Title Films (who wanted it for Reese Witherspoon), _Focus_’ Margot Robbie and George Clooney, along with his producing partner Grant Heslov. “I wanted \[to work with\] people with integrity like Warner’s and Andrew Lazar, people who will honor my vision and honor the passion that I brought to my work and bring that to their work,” Addario tells TIME. “It’s really about integrity, passion and being true to the issues that I cover.” **MORE:** [_Meet the Photographer Who Found How to Balance a Life of Love and War_](http://time.com/3699030/lynsey-addario-war-photographer/) She has spent much of the past 15 years photographing the human toll of conflict, especially on women, from Afghanistan to Libya, Cuba to Iraq, India to Israel. “I feel a huge pressure to be successful in communicating their trauma,” the mother of one, who’s been kidnapped twice, [told TIME last month](http://time.com/3699030/lynsey-addario-war-photographer/). “I have to make sure that I take this information and disseminate it in a way that’s useful to them in the long term; that will prevent other women from going through what they went through. I can’t imagine not dedicating my life to trying to stop those things from happening.” Turning to Hollywood is the latest stage in the photographer’s life-long goal of keeping the spotlight on the people and issues she’s covered. “It means so much to me because people respond to Hollywood in a way that journalists can’t always access.” \[[_Deadline_](http://deadline.com/2015/03/steven-spielberg-jennifer-lawrence-warner-bros-its-what-i-do-lynsey-addario-war-photographer-1201384706/)\] ## Transcript [ MUSIC ] In a lot of the places I work, there's a real taboo against photographing women. In Afghanistan, for example. I always leave it up to the person themself. I never photograph someone if they tell me not to. I go and I explain my purpose. And the reason why I think it's important to, for example, create a document of women in Afghanistan. Afghanistan. I think it was very important to do it properly. Because first of all these are cultures where if a woman is photographed and she does not have permission from her family, they can kill her. And they can kill her because it's seen as dishonoring the family. So it is important to take those steps and to actually ask permission, especially when the woman is identifiable, when her face is showing. We tend to have a real misconception about what Muslim women's lives are like. Especially in places where there's war or where. We think there's an oppressive regime. Often at the end of the day what I find as a woman who has access to these women, they're just like us. They do go to school. They do have the same hopes and dreams for their children. I try not to go in there with my prejudices of how women need to live because that's not my culture. And it's not my job to do that. My job's to go in and document. What I see, and to bring that information to the public. [ MUSIC ] In 2011, I found out I was pregnant. And I made a decision to continue working until I physically didn't feel like I could anymore. With that, I went to Afghanistan. I was in Somalia, Kenya, Saudi Arabia ,. Gaza, and I've taken a lot of criticism. Especially, since the excerpt was published in the New York Times Magazine. Whats incredible to me, is that it's mostly women who are criticizing me. It's women who say, how dare she go to a war- zone pregnant. Now, my question to those women is ,. Don't you realize that there are women who are pregnant every single day who live in those war zones. Who are born into war. Who get pregnant. Who give birth and who raise children in those war zones. Why are you not incensed about those conditions their living and it if makes you so outraged, get up and do something. Get up and go to those places and help. Or do something other than sit and write criticism to me. Because I'm actually there because I believe I need to do something to help. 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