With millionaire sagas on her resume, an Oscar and a career still on the rise, the ease with which the actress becomes a target of criticism is striking.
It does not seem too bold to say that Jennifer Lawrence is the most famous actress on the planet. For many, the American – who has just turned 31 – is tremendously intuitive – she has never received an acting class – charismatic and authentic. That, and she is 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 actress to receive so many nominations for the award— and she has won the statuette once, 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 made many moviegoers and fellow professionals uncomfortable. To begin with, almost from the beginning of her career, the Louisville native chose to rebel against the Hollywood tyranny of the perfect body. Her curves served as fuel for a multitude of magazines and television programs, but she cared little for that.
What's more, a few years ago, at the height of #MeToo, the actress had no problem talking about a sad episode she experienced at the beginning of her career. According to her account, one day they asked her to stand naked in a line 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 become so accustomed to hyper-thin bodies that they call a normal person like me curvy - a euphemism for not calling her chubby -. It's crazy," she commented on one occasion, which is already considered by many as a symbol of feminism in the mecca of cinema.
Because she, as she shamelessly confesses, frequently trains to be fit and strong, not to look thin and unhealthy. And she has also come to express, to the outrage of many, that it should be illegal to call someone fat or ugly and humiliate someone on television, referring directly to the well-known program Fashion Police, 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 presenter replied wryly on social media.
Years ago Lawrence made headlines again after posing for the media on a London rooftop during the presentation of Red Sparrow. She did it dressed in a strapless dress with a large side opening. Her male companions, in trench coats and blazers. That served for many people to cry out in heaven 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's ridiculous, it's not feminism. Overreacting to everything someone says or does, creating controversy over silly things or innocuous like what I choose to wear or not wear is not moving us forward. It's creating silly distractions into real problems. Calm down, people! Everything you see me wear is my choice. And if I want to be cold, it's my choice too!"
Jennifer Lawrence also has no complexes when it comes to speaking publicly about 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 seeing my movie. It's not smart, from the point of view commercially, signify [politically]. But then, what's the point of having a voice if I'm not going to use it for what I really believe in?'" he said without hesitation in another interview.
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 them harshly. Above all, her neighbors from Kentucky, Trump's stronghold and where her parents currently reside. But Lawrence, who grew up Republican, can't imagine voting for a party that doesn't support basic women's 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 salary 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 been paid less than their male co-stars—Christian Bale and Bradley Cooper—for their work on American Hustle (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 was not easy for her to adapt to her new status as a star of world cinema. "It took a few years to adjust. I really didn't realize how angry and distorted I felt [...]. I still felt entitled to a certain life that I wasn't allowed to have [anymore]. I felt I had the right to say, 'I don't want to be photographed right now, I don't want people out of my house right now, I don't want my nephews in People.' I got 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 took so hard to get used to is her daily contact with her followers. And the antipathy that she sometimes squanders with fans - the actress does not take photos or sign autographs on a daily basis, unless she is working - is the circumstance that many of her detractors cling to when putting her to falling off a donkey, along with the fact that they consider his apparent spontaneity somewhat false.
"I think people think we're really friends, because I'm famous and they think they know me. But I don't know them [...] So I make it clear with my body language that I don't want to talk to a stranger. And if I still They talk to me, then that's when I'm rude," she said one day about it.
The actress, currently engaged to the gallery owner Cooke Maroney, does not usually talk about her private life either, but she (almost) her, every time she does, she raises the bread. The same is said in the middle of an interview that, before becoming intim-te with a partner, he asks for a test to show that he does not carry any sexually transmitted disease —since he apparently suffers from mysophobia—, that he confesses that he wants to have a farm and dedicate himself to milk goats.
At the moment, yes, she has just ended the sabbatical year that she decided to take in 2018 to rest from the vortex in which she lived and dedicate herself to activism. Because she is, as she says, addicted to work, and she does not hesitate to chain one project after another. After all, she is not a fool, and she knows that (as successful as she is now) she fights daily against one of the most ruthless rules of the Hollywood game: beautiful and talented young women succeed and take the best papers...until a new, pretty young girl 'shows up' in town.
