As a collective planet, we’ve been having a pretty torrid love affair with Jennifer Lawrence for a while now. She’s funny, she’s pretty, she’s really smart and talented, she’s not afraid to look like an idiot… in other words, she’s just a “real girl” and “just like us”, and that’s why everyone (or at least most people) love her. However, like most love affairs, it seems this relationship may be starting to sour just slightly, as she’s received a shit ton of criticism for something that went down in the 2016 Golden Globes press room on Sunday night.
Here’s the deal: JLaw won a Globe for Joy, which is a pretty solid movie based on a true story about the inventor of an awesome mop. That’s the simple version, but it was pretty good — nothing mind-blowing, but it’s Jennifer Lawrence, so obviously she was going to get the award. All was fine and well until she got to the press room after the ceremony, where winners answer lots of question from the reporters gathered there. Lawrence was asked a question by a reporter who was reading from his phone, and she called him out for not giving her eye contact and seeming to be distracted. Very JLaw, right? Except there’s one issue: English wasn’t this reporter’s native language, so he was likely reading from his phone so that he could ask a coherent question.
Jennifer Lawrence calls out a reporter for not looking up from his phone. #GoldenGlobes #backstage https://t.co/anWeQCsIL6
— Variety (@Variety) January 11, 2016
Of course, the Internet had an absolute meltdown and started calling her incredibly rude and arrogant, but like, whatever. I’m all for calling out entitlement and rudeness, but how the hell was Jennifer Lawrence supposed to know that a reporter in a room full of 50+ of them was staring at his phone because he wasn’t confident in the English language? Consider how many times in life YOU’VE watched someone stare at their phones rather than giving you their undivided attention, and then magnify that by how many times it’s probably happened to a celebrity. If I was in her position, I’d have thought the reporter was being rude, too.
Surely, her faux pas was revealed to her and it’s likely that she apologized behind-the-scenes (because no, it doesn’t have to be made public to count), but I think everyone needs to chill the hell out a bit. Was it a little bratty? Eh, maybe, but it’s hardly the worst thing a celebrity has done.
You ask: “how the hell was Jennifer Lawrence supposed to know that a reporter in a room full of 50+ of them was staring at his phone because he wasn’t confident in the English language?” She knew because she heard him asking the question. She heard his voice.
You can have an accent and still speak English fluently…
“how the hell was Jennifer Lawrence supposed to know that a reporter in a room full of 50+ of them was staring at his phone because he wasn’t confident in the English language?”
Ok that’s fair, she didn’t know. However, that DOES NOT mean she could say what she said!
Maybe he was reading his question from his phone, instead of reading it of a notepad (yes, technology is a thing)
She had won a golden globe ok bd, that DOES NOT give her the right to tell people how to do their jobs.
This is another one of her attempts of being the special snowflake.
Why does anyone give this mediocr dii
Her acting is lame and she’s a narcissistic whore that took hundred of pictures of her own oussy
I thought the ESL rumor turned out to be false? Another reporter who was in the room stated the guy was filming/taking pictures of her while she was talking and wasn’t reading off his phone. He also said that besides that quip she was pleasant in engaging with all the reporters including the one she was “rude” to. Honestly she had just come in from wining a Globe and he asked her about the Oscars.. I don’t think a smartass quip about it was unwarranted.
I agree, and I think this got super hyped up/exaggerated because of course we have to build people up just to knock them off their pedestals, which is obnoxious.
Even if the reporter was filming her she is not in the place to tell people what to do or live their lives
Right from day one I’ve thought this woman was a phony f*ck. … Oh look at me I fell going up the steps of the stage to get my Oscar I am such a goof I am just a regular person. I call BS on this woman and “the love affair” is ridiculous.