{"id":112679,"date":"2025-11-01T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112679\/"},"modified":"2025-11-01T16:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-01T16:28:09","slug":"im-just-adding-fuel-to-a-fire-thats-ripping-the-country-apart","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/112679\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m Just Adding \u2018Fuel to a Fire That\u2019s Ripping the Country Apart\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

Jennifer Lawrence appeared on \u201cThe Interview\u201d podcast from The New York Times<\/a> as part of her \u201cDie My Love\u201d press tour and got honest about her newfound resistance to talking to the press about politics. The Oscar winner was outspoken against Donald Trump during his first administration as U.S. president, notably writing an op-ed <\/a>after Election Day in which she declared that Trump\u2019s victory meant \u201cthe only people that feel safe [in America], that their rights are recognized and respected, are white men.\u201d<\/p>\n

When asked by \u201cThe Interview\u201d host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her thoughts on speaking out now regarding Trump and politics, Lawrence answered: \u201cI don\u2019t really know if I should. The first Trump administration was so wild and just how can we let this stand? I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off. But as we\u2019ve learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I\u2019m just sharing my opinion on something that\u2019s going to add fuel to a fire that\u2019s ripping the country apart. We are so divided.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI think I\u2019m in a complicated recalibration because I\u2019m also an artist,\u201d Lawrence continued. \u201cWith this temperature and the way things can turn out, I don\u2019t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don\u2019t like my political opinions. I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I\u2019m doing. And if I can\u2019t say something that\u2019s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I don\u2019t want to be a part of the problem. I don\u2019t want to make the problem worse\u2026 You watch these actors\u2019 faces who have had incredible careers and made incredible contributions and then one half of the internet doesn\u2019t want to see their face anymore. I get so upset for those people and it feels so wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence noted thats he\u2019s able to get across her political beliefs via her work, such as the movies she\u2019s making at her production company. These projects include \u201cBread and Roses,\u201d which follows three women in Afghanistan amid the effects of the 2021 Taliban offensive, and the abortion documentary \u201cZurawski v Texas.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI try to express my politics through my work,\u201d she noted. \u201cA lot of movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape and that\u2019s how I feel like I can be helpful.\u201d<\/p>\n

She then quipped when asked if she regretted how she\u2019s handled speaking out in the past: \u201cProbably? I regret everything I\u2019ve ever done or said. I\u2019m going to take the zip drives out of all of these cameras when I leave. The second term feels different. Because he said what he was going to do. We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear. And that\u2019s what we chose.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence\u2019s press tour for \u201cDie My Love\u201d has largely been defined by her blunt reflections on her career and how the public turned against her brash personality and outspokenness. She told\u00a0Vanity Fair<\/a>\u00a0in 2021 that she took a two-year break from Hollywood because \u201ceverybody had gotten sick of me. I\u2019d gotten sick of me.\u201d In a recent interview with The New Yorker<\/a>, Lawrence admitted that she understood why the public \u201crejected\u201d her personality because she actually was \u201cannoying\u201d in old interviews. She expanded on the topic during her chat on \u201cThe Interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cAs horrified as I am at some things \u2014 like an old interview or something, so cringe \u2014 I get it. I was young and nervous and defensive and awkward,\u201d Lawrence told Garcia-Navarro. \u201cI remember when I was nominated for \u2018Silver Linings Playbook,\u2019 somebody was like: \u2018Everybody loves you! What does that feel like?\u2019 I was like: It feels precarious. It\u2019s going to come down. That\u2019s just the nature of things. And then I fell getting my Oscar, and the next year I was waving to fans and I tripped on a cone and I remember being like: \u201c[Expletive], that\u2019s it. Nobody\u2019s gonna believe that I fell two years in a row\u2026 everybody thought that meant everything that I did was fake and it was all a shtick. This is how it felt to me. That I got found out as this fraud.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lawrence explained that she grew sick of herself in part because \u201cI was just sick of doing this,\u201d referring to the grueling press tour cycle.<\/p>\n

\u201cDoing interviews is really scary. I\u2019m very blessed, I\u2019m very lucky, I\u2019m very grateful. But it\u2019s terrifying,\u201d Lawrence said. \u201cYou finish an interview or you\u2019re gearing up to release a film and you\u2019re putting yourself out there to be picked apart. I was just so tired of being quoted and people talking about the quotes, so tired of seeing myself in that way. I needed a break from it. People needed a break from it. It was a mutual breakup.\u201d<\/p>\n

When \u201cThe Interview\u201d host <\/a>noted that Lawrence appears \u201ca lot more reserved\u201d than she used to be in press interviews, the actor noted: \u201cI\u2019ve also grown up. And yeah, I\u2019m a lot more nervous about whatever I say publicly. I don\u2019t want to give an interview that\u2019s a bunch of sound bites and a word salad. I don\u2019t think that\u2019s interesting and it would feel so inauthentic and not like what I\u2019m here to do. So I\u2019m trying to strike that balance.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mubi is releasing \u201cDie My Love\u201d in theaters Nov. 7. Head over to The New York Times\u2019 website <\/a>to listen to Lawrence\u2019s full discussion on \u201cThe Interview.\u201d<\/p>\n

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