{"id":114732,"date":"2025-11-02T23:48:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114732\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T23:48:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T23:48:07","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-doubts-her-trump-criticism-is-helpful","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/114732\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence doubts her Trump criticism is helpful"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jennifer Lawrence is rethinking whether she should continue speaking out against Trump: &#8216;I really don&#8217;t know if I should&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/10\/29\/jennifer-lawrence-postpartum-anxiety-cooke-maroney\/86962939007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> is rethinking her approach to discussing her political views.<\/p>\n<p>While speaking on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/11\/01\/magazine\/jennifer-lawrence-interview.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">The New York Times&#8217; &#8220;The Interview&#8221; podcast<\/a>, the &#8220;Die My Love&#8221; star, who has been a vocal critic of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">President Donald Trump<\/a> for years, questioned whether she should continue to share her political opinions going forward.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t really know if I should,&#8221; Lawrence said on the Nov. 1 episode. &#8220;We&#8217;ve learned election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. And so then what am I doing? I&#8217;m just sharing my opinion on something that&#8217;s going to just add fuel to a fire that&#8217;s ripping the country apart. I mean, we are so divided.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Oscar-winning star, 35, went on to say she is &#8220;in a complicated recalibration&#8221; and doesn&#8217;t want people to avoid her work because they disagree with her politically.<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">Jennifer Lawrence on her politics: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2020\/10\/21\/trump-election-changed-jennifer-lawrences-republican-views\/6004508002\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;I would like to clarify my voting record&#8217;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I don&#8217;t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don&#8217;t like my political opinions,&#8221; she said. &#8220;If I can&#8217;t say something that&#8217;s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature, or some sort of solution, I just don&#8217;t want to be a part of the problem. I don&#8217;t want to make the problem worse.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>While she may be less politically outspoken in the future, Lawrence noted she will continue expressing her politics through her work, telling the NYT, &#8220;A lot of my movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape. That&#8217;s how I feel like I can be helpful.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence grew up in a Republican family and has said she voted for John McCain for president in 2008 before she began to identify as a Democrat. &#8220;Through Obama&#8217;s presidency, and growing up to realize I was voting against my own rights, I am proud to say I am a Democrat,&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/JLawrence_RepUs\/status\/1321141203228766208\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">she said in 2020<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/life\/people\/2015\/10\/01\/jennifer-lawrence-john-oliver-speak-out-on-trump\/73157962\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">she told<\/a> Entertainment Weekly, &#8220;If <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/donald-trump\/\" data-autotag=\"26f031d1-9924-4f10-b4e6-019d076113d5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Donald Trump<\/a> becomes president, that will be the end of the world.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She supported <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/joe-biden\/\" data-autotag=\"bce3c45f-197d-4845-8248-87d4f3a737c8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Joe Biden<\/a> for president in 2020 and <a href=\"https:\/\/vmagazine.com\/article\/the-thought-leaders-issue-jennifer-lawrence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">told V Magazine<\/a>, &#8220;Donald Trump has and will continue to put himself before the safety and well-being of America. He does not represent my values as an American, and most importantly as a human being.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"related-link\">Jennifer Lawrence on ChatGPT: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/celebrities\/2025\/10\/29\/jennifer-lawrence-postpartum-anxiety-cooke-maroney\/86962939007\/\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The star recounts tearful moment amid postpartum anxiety<\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 2022, the &#8220;Silver Linings Playbook&#8221; star criticized people who &#8220;aren\u2019t political&#8221; while speaking to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/jennifer-lawrence-october-cover-2022-interview\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Vogue<\/a>. &#8220;You live in the United States of America,&#8221; she said at the time. &#8220;You have to be political. It&#8217;s too dire. Politics are killing people.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Lawrence endorsed Democratic nominee <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/news\/politics\/kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Kamala Harris<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lawrence-endorses-kamala-harris-womens-rights-documentaries-exclusive-8717082\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">telling People<\/a>, &#8220;She&#8217;s an amazing candidate and I know that she will do whatever she can to protect reproductive rights.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>On the &#8220;Interview&#8221; podcast, Lawrence also reflected on why Trump&#8217;s second term &#8220;feels different&#8221; from his first. &#8220;He said what he was going to do,&#8221; she said. &#8220;We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear. And that&#8217;s what we chose, again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Lawrence is promoting her Oscar hopeful &#8220;Die My Love,&#8221; in which she stars as a young mother opposite <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/03\/05\/mickey-17-robert-pattinson-interview\/81141283007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Robert Pattinson<\/a>. The film, which premiered at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/picture-gallery\/entertainment\/movies\/2025\/05\/13\/cannes-film-festival-2025-red-carpet-looks\/83603785007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cannes Film Festival<\/a>, marks the first movie role for Lawrence since her 2023 comedy &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/entertainment\/movies\/2023\/06\/25\/andrew-barth-feldman-no-hard-feelings-interview\/70352748007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">No Hard Feelings<\/a>.&#8221; She has earned acclaim, and early Oscar buzz, for the performance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence is rethinking whether she should continue speaking out against Trump: &#8216;I really don&#8217;t know if I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[441,442,81708,8881,2436,430,451,4036,1656,19067,19077,2178,65,156,19066,1300,29957,2435,2444,19065,19076,23997,440,456,409,3403,117,14007,111,43,139,69,16941,428,3410,4762,135,20959,20960,14005,38,2179,431,2173],"class_list":["post-114732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-affiliate","tag-arts","tag-barack","tag-barack-obama","tag-biden","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrities-u0026-entertainment-news","tag-chatgpt","tag-company","tag-democratic","tag-democratic-party","tag-donald","tag-donald-trump","tag-entertainment","tag-harris","tag-jennifer","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-joe","tag-joe-biden","tag-kamala","tag-kamala-harris","tag-lawrence","tag-local","tag-local-affiliate-arts-u0026-entertainment","tag-movies","tag-negative","tag-new","tag-new-york-times-company","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-obama","tag-overall","tag-overall-negative","tag-party","tag-politics","tag-republican","tag-republican-party","tag-times","tag-top-stories","tag-trump","tag-u0026","tag-york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}