Jennifer Lawrence: why is the most talented actress of her generation so hated?
With millionaire sagas on the curriculum, an Oscar and a career still on the rise, the ease with which the actress becomes the target of criticism is striking.
It doesn't seem too daring to say that Jennifer Lawrence is the most famous actress on the planet. For many, the American - who has just turned 30 - is tremendously intuitive - she has never received an acting class -, charismatic and authentic. That, and she was one of the best actresses of her generation. In fact, her natural talent for acting has already earned her four Oscar nominations - she is the youngest performer to receive so many nominations for the award - and she has once won the statuette, for her role in The Good Side of Things, in 2013.
Now, Lawrence is not a celebrity to use. Her verbal incontinence, her political incorrectness, and her somewhat eccentric character have been uncomfortable for many moviegoers and fellow professionals. To begin with, almost early in her career, Louisville chose to rebel against the Hollywood tyranny of the perfect body. Her curves served as fuel for a multitude of magazines and television shows, but that mattered little to her.
What's more, a couple of years ago, in the heyday of #MeToo, the actress had no problem talking about a sad episode experienced at the beginning of her career. According to her, one day they asked her to stay naked in a row with other actresses, in front of a producer who judged her body and asked her to lose six kilos in two weeks. "I think we have gotten so used to hyper-thin bodies that a normal person like me is called curvy -a euphemism for not calling her chubby-. It's crazy," said on one occasion what is already considered by many as a symbol of the feminism in the mecca of cinema.
Because she, as she shamelessly confesses, trains frequently to be fit and strong, not to look thin and unhealthy. And she has also come to express, to the indignation of many, that it should be illegal to call someone fat or ugly and humiliate someone on television, referring directly to the well-known Fashion Police program, where Joan Rivers is dedicated to ruthlessly criticizing actresses. "It's funny how Jennifer Lawrence loved Fashion Police during awards season, when we complimented her every week," the comedian and host responded through social media with irony.
In February of last year, Lawrence made headlines again after posing for the media on a London rooftop during the Red Sparrow presentation. She did it dressed in a sundress with a large side slit. The male companions of hers, with raincoats and blazers. That served to make many people cry out loud on Twitter, considering that the gesture was another example of the prevailing machismo in Hollywood.
But the actress did not hesitate to use her Facebook profile to stop the controversy and 'defend herself': "This is sexist, it is ridiculous, it is not feminism. Overreacting to everything someone says or does, creating controversy about silly things or innocuous like what I choose to wear or not to wear is not moving us forward. It is creating silly distractions in real problems. Calm down folks! Everything you see me wearing is my choice. And if I want to be cold, it is my choice too! ".
Jennifer Lawrence also has no complexes when it comes to speaking publicly on certain controversial issues. And that, you know, always ends up stinging some. "I completely agree when there are actors who say: 'Actors should stay out of politics. We are not politicians.' My business is based on everyone buying tickets and watching my movie. It's not smart, from the point of view commercial, to signify [politically]. But then, what is the point of having a voice if I am not going to use it for what I really believe in? '
Very critical of many of Donald Trump's policies, the actress has come to confess that her parents hate that she speaks publicly about such matters. Basically, because it hurts them that people can criticize her harshly. Above all, her neighbors from Kentucky, Trump's stronghold and the place where her parents currently reside. But Lawrence, who was raised as a Republican, can't imagine voting for a party that doesn't support a woman's basic rights.
The actress, who on several occasions has become the highest paid performer in Hollywood according to Forbes, was also one of the first to denounce - through a letter that raised blisters - the wage gap between men and women in Hollywood. She was rightly outraged the day Sony was hacked and discovered that both she and Amy Adams had earned less than their male co-stars - Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper - for their work on The Great American Scam (2013).
So is she. Unable to shut up in the face of what she considers unfair. It's clear that starring in The Hunger Games (2012) was what changed Lawrence's life forever. And it wasn't easy for her to adjust to her new status as a world movie star. "It took a few years to adjust. Really, I didn't realize how angry and distorted I felt [...]. I still felt entitled to a certain life that I was no longer allowed to have [more]. I felt I had the right to say, 'I don't want to be photographed right now, I don't want people outside my house right now, I don't want my nephews in People.' I felt a lot of anger from 'Why can't I just do my job?' And then you just get used to it, "he confessed to a journalist.
Obviously, one of the collateral effects of that fame that she had so hard to get used to is her daily contact with her followers. And the antipathy that sometimes she wastes with the fans - the actress does not take photos or sign autographs in her day to day, unless she is working - is the circumstance that many of her detractors cling to when it comes to putting her on. fall from a donkey, together with the fact that they consider their apparent spontaneity something false.
"I think people think we are really friends, because I'm famous and they think they know me. But I don't [...] So I make it clear with my body language that I don't want to talk to a stranger. And if even so They talk to me, that's when I'm rude, "she said one day about it.
The actress, currently engaged to the gallery owner Cooke Maroney, is not used to talking about her private life either, but she (almost) her every time she does, she raises the bread. He says the same thing in the middle of an interview that, before becoming intimate with a partner, asks for an examination that shows that he does not carry any sexually transmitted disease - since he apparently suffers from misophobia - that he confesses that he wants to have a farm and dedicate himself to milk goats.
For now, yes, she has just ended the sabbatical year that she decided to take in 2018 to rest from the maelstrom in which she lived and dedicate herself to activism. Because she is, as she claims, addicted to work, and she does not hesitate to chain one project after another. After all, she doesn't have the hair of a fool, and she knows that (as successful as she is now) she fights every day against one of the most ruthless rules of the Hollywood game: beautiful and talented young women succeed and get the best of them. roles ... until a new pretty young girl 'shows up' in town.
