--- description: The Oscar-winning actress also danced while vacuuming her living room in a scene cut from the David O. Russell film title: Watch Jennifer Lawrence Lip-Sync in an American Hustle Deleted Scene image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- * [Entertainment](/section/entertainment/) ## Entertainment Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Jennifer Lawrence](/tag/jennifer-lawrence/) ## Jennifer Lawrence Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Watch Jennifer Lawrence Lip-Sync in This _American Hustle_ Deleted Scene by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 20, 2014 2:12 PM CUT by [Eric Dodds](/author/eric-dodds/) ## Eric Dodds Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Mar 20, 2014 2:12 PM CUT Santana or Paul McCartney & Wings? In the theatrical release of _American Hustle_, director David O. Russell chose the latter for Jennifer Lawrence’s living room lip-syncing performance. But now, thanks to a deleted scene available on the film’s DVD, audiences can see what might have been had Russell gone in a different direction. Not unlike her enthusiastic performance of “Live and Let Die” in the film’s final cut, [Lawrence goes all out](http://www.etonline.com/movies/144501%5FJennifer%5FLawrence%5FDances%5Fin%5FAmerican%5FHustle%5FDeleted%5FScene/index.html "undefined") for her faux rendition of Santana’s 1969 song “Evil Ways,” lip-syncing, dancing and vacuuming for four minutes. The 23-year-old Lawrence was nominated for her third Academy Award for the role of Rosalyn Rosenfeld in _American Hustle_ — which also starred Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams — but she lost to _12 Years a Slave_‘s Lupita Nyong’o. Could choosing Santana over Wings have helped her cause? There’s no way to know, but at least now audiences will have the chance to enjoy both. _American Hustle_ hit store shelves on DVD and Blu-Ray Tuesday. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/31717/jennifer-lawrence-lip-sync-american-hustle-scene/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/31717/jennifer-lawrence-lip-sync-american-hustle-scene/"},"headline":"Watch Jennifer Lawrence Lip-Sync in This American Hustle Deleted Scene","datePublished":"2014-03-20T14:12:04.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T06:52:08.685Z","description":"The Oscar-winning actress also danced while vacuuming her living room in a scene cut from the David O. Russell film","url":"https://time.com/31717/jennifer-lawrence-lip-sync-american-hustle-scene/","keywords":["Jennifer Lawrence","Paul McCartney"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Eric Dodds","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/eric-dodds/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/jennifer-lawrence/","name":"Jennifer Lawrence"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/31717/jennifer-lawrence-lip-sync-american-hustle-scene/","name":"Watch Jennifer Lawrence Lip-Sync in This American Hustle Deleted Scene"}}]}] ```