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Jennifer Lawrence as a picnic

table? Celebs and Halloween

By LEANNE ITALIE The show’s second season tain Morgan, of the rum.
Associated Press premieres just a few days “Yeah, all these drunks
NEW YORK (AP) — before Halloween. were like Captain Morgan!
When it comes to Hallow- “I’m thinking of dressing And I’m with all these little
een, you’re either a hard- up as some kind of mon- kids and I’m like no,” he
core fan or not so much. ster. Like a Demogorgon said.
You can go ahead and from the Upside Down? “I don’t know what that
count Dua Lipa in, along I’ve done enough running says about me. It seems like
with other celebrities who from monsters. It’s time to I add alcohol to the equa-
shared their favorite mem- do some chasing,” he said tion. But nobody knew it
In this March 13, 2017 file photo, singer Harry Connick Jr. poses ories of the dress-up holi- of his character, young Will was me.”
with his wife Jill Goodacre at a special screening of Disney’s day. Byers. Jeannie added: “And he
“Beauty and the Beast” in New York. “Me and my band have Finn Wolfhard, his fellow had a hook and he was
Associated Press actually planned to do our “Stranger Things” cast still, like, Captain Morgan.”
show in Stockholm in cos- member who also ap- Growing up, Halloween
tume,” said Lipa, the Eng- pears in the Stephen King was all about improvising
lish pop singer. film “It,” got the bad end for singer-songwriter Jason
“We’re all going to go of the deal for Halloween Derulo.
as the ‘Harry Potter’ cast last year when one of the “We didn’t have all of this
and I’m going to make a moms volunteered to get a money to spend on Hallow-
flyer and tell all the fans to bunch of costumes for the een.
come dressed up for the show’s kids as they contin- So, you know, we had to
show. I think that’s gonna ued to film and he was the improvise a little bit be-
be lots of fun.” last one to arrive for trick- cause we definitely want-
And what of last year? or-treating. ed to get the candy and
“Last Halloween I was “I got the last costume we didn’t want to miss out.
dressed up as Carrie. Lots left, and that’s why all the ”He remembers going as
of blood. Kind of gross,” ‘Stranger Things’ kids were “pillowcase man,” for in-
she laughed. really cool superheroes last stance.
Fellow crooner Harry Con- year — and I was a human “You take a pillowcase,
nick Jr. recalled one nota- whoopee cushion,” he cut the holes in it and you
ble night. said. know, I just had to rock it
“I went as Barbie one year. Vampires are Ruby Mo- out. It’s all about the confi-
I was extremely hot,” he dine’s Halloween jam. The dence that you have when
joked. cast member of the Show- it’s Halloween.
His wife, Jill Goodacre, time series “Shameless” But, this year I don’t know.
chimed in: “It was so scary.” and the new theatrical hor- I don’t know where I’m go-
Hugh Jackman has en- ror film “Happy Death Day” ing to take it.”
joyed a little family fun — said she dressed mostly as Cheryl Hines, co-star of
and an odd Halloween a vampire since she was 6 the Larry David HBO series
anonymity — in the past. years old. “Curb Your Enthusiasm,”
“I dressed up once as “I should really switch things hasn’t traveled far out of
(his X-Men character) Lo- up. the box when it comes to
gan because my kid, my This year I’ll aspire to be a Halloween costumes for
3-year-old, went as Wolver- beautiful and more elabo- her and her kids, but she
ine and the costume de- rate version from 2016,” she had one epic encounter.
partment gave him the full said. “I did run into somebody
leather suit and the claws,” For actor-comedian Jim dressed as Larry David
he said. Gaffigan, there was a Peter once,” she said. “On Santa
“Only one out of 50 houses Pan family theme one Hal- Monica boulevard. Like a
actually recognized me loween with his wife, Jean- 20-year-old guy dressed
playing Logan. So I think nie Gaffigan, and their as Larry David. It was very
I could roam the halls of kids. He was supposed to funny.
Comic-Con and people be Captain Hook but was Of course we got a picture
are like, ‘No. Too tall.’” roundly mistaken for Cap- together.”q
Perhaps only Jennifer Law-
rence could have pulled
this one off: She went as
a picnic table in middle
school.
“I cut a hole in, like, a plaid
picnic thing and glued a
bunch of plates and stuff
to it. It was really attrac-
tive,” she deadpanned.
Noah Schnapp of “Strang-
er Things” thinks he may
carry the sci-fi ‘80s vibe
of the Netflix series into his
Halloween costume.