Matthew Shepherd revisits Susanne Bier’s Serena starring Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence…Bradley Cooper rarely talks about Serena. Then Silver Linings Playbook came out. The cast had chemistry that Silver Linings Playbook had already proven to audiences worldwide. There was one thing nobody had anticipated though, and that was Silver Linings Playbook. Serena was filmed in early 2012, before either Cooper or Lawrence had broken into the first tier of Hollywood.