8 Times Jennifer Lawrence Dropped Truth Bombs And Exploded Your Mind
It's like Mom always said: TGFJL. That's "Thank God for Jennifer Lawrence," to the uninitiated.
Usually, Lawrence is full of goofiness (and also marshmallows), but on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), the actress served up a seriously piping hot dish of realness about the wage gap in Hollywood.
"I would be lying if I didn’t say there was an element of wanting to be liked that influenced my decision to close the deal without a real fight. I didn’t want to seem ’difficult’ or ’spoiled,'” she wrote.
Amen, we say. (And so does Hermione Granger herself.)
Of course, this isn't the first time Lawrence has told it like it is, no ifs ands or buts about it. Here are some of our favorites.
The time she shared her feelings about bathroom hygiene.
Plain and simple: girl just doesn't see the need.
How about when she called women out for not supporting one another?
“When I watch these shows and the media and I watch the women on these televisions shows pointing to these women and judging them and calling them ugly and calling them fat, it’s just like, where have we come? Why are we here? Why are we doing this to each other?" she said on Access Hollywood. "Men were doing it hundreds of years ago and now we’ve turned around [and] we’re doing it to each other.”
When she admitted that, yeah, she does care what people think about her.
“I can’t think of a more wasteful use of my time than to worry about this,” she told the New York Times. “Why do I care what people think? But I do. I just can’t pretend I don’t care. I get really insecure about it. The world makes an opinion of you without ever meeting you. That worry should not bother me, but it does. It bothers me. I’m going to leave here and think, ‘Oh God, why couldn’t I just have been cool and confident?’”
When she took people who looked at her nude pics to task.
“I started to write an apology, but I don’t have anything to say I’m sorry for,” she told Vanity Fair. "I was in a loving, healthy, great relationship for four years. It was long distance, and either your boyfriend is going to look at porn or he’s going to look at you.
“It is not a scandal. It is a sex crime,” she said. “It is a sexual violation. It’s disgusting. Anybody who looked at those pictures, you’re perpetuating a sexual offense. You should cower with shame.”
The time she shut down body-shaming with a flat palm.
“I just think it should be illegal to call somebody fat on TV,” she told Barbara Walters on ABC News. “The media needs to take responsibility for the effect that it has on our younger generation, on these girls who are watching these television shows, and picking up how to talk and how to be cool.”
You know that whole "just say no" thing? JLaw does, when it comes to starving herself.
“I’m never going to starve myself for a part,” she told ELLE.
When she acknowledged that (gasp) acting might not be the hardest thing in the world.
“Not to sound rude but [acting] is stupid," she told Vanity Fair. "Everybody’s like, 'How can you remain with a level head?’ And I’m like, ’Why would I ever get cocky? I’m not saving anybody’s life. There are doctors who save lives and firemen who run into burning buildings. I’m making movies. It’s stupid.”
And that time she was just like us and got fear sweat before an interview.
“I must be nervous. Look at the sweat under my arms," she told an interviewer from Vanity Fair.