Actress Jennifer Lawrence has always been one of those celebrities I actively wanted to like. She has a refreshingly funny personality that can be disarming, and it often shines through during moments when everyone else is trying to be seen at their most "noble." Moreover, I do think she's a fine actress capable of going from a very serious, dramatic role to something way more lighthearted and fun.
The issue is that Lawrence, like many Hollywood celebrities, drank a ton of the LA Kool-Aid and went from an open Republican to shouting about how Donald Trump would end the world. She became a feminist, talked about the gender pay gap in 2015 when that was hot, endorsed Hillary Clinton during the 2016 election, then Joe Biden in 2020, and called the Israel/Hamas war a "genocide" in 2025.
In other words, Lawrence became the next leftist in the Hollywood assembly line. Different look, same NPC behavior. It's not exactly something that endears a celebrity to a good majority of people, especially with Hollywood celebrities tossing their ridiculously leftist opinions into a media already saturated with leftist celebrity opinions.
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Lawrence, to her credit, seems to pick up on this, which is more than I can say for many other celebrities. According to Variety, she seems to get now that speaking out politically isn't something people want to hear. We don't care, and it turns us off:
When asked by “The Interview” host Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her thoughts on speaking out now regarding Trump and politics, Lawrence answered: “I don’t 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’ve learned, election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. So then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart. We are so divided.
“I think I’m in a complicated recalibration because I’m also an artist,” Lawrence continued. “With this temperature and the way things can turn out, I don’t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don’t like my political opinions. I want to protect my craft so that you can still get lost in what I’m doing. And if I can’t say something that’s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or some sort of solution, I don’t want to be a part of the problem."
Keeping your opinion to yourself and focusing on just doing the best job you can. What a concept.
But it did spark a thought in my head, because as I read her words, I was drawn to her understanding that she was just "adding fuel to the fire" in terms of division. What bothered me wasn't that Lawrence had different opinions from me. Plenty of people I love have differing political opinions from me. Hell, my wife has some ideals that diverge from mine on a political level.
What always bothered me about Lawrence, and indeed a lot of celebrities, was that they paired that disagreement with the idea that division was necessary. Lawrence was guilty of this in a big way when she said she had to work to mend her relationship with her own family because they were conservative:
"I just worked so hard in the last five years to forgive my dad and my family and try to understand: It's different. The information they are getting is different. Their life is different," she said. "I've tried to get over it and I really can't. I can't. I'm sorry I'm just unleashing, but I can't f--- with people who aren't political anymore. You live in the United States of America. You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing people."
Disagreements can become heated. I won't sit here and say that when it comes to subjects like abortion, things can't get pretty black and white.
But I'd rather have a good-faith fight than a total shutdown of conversation because the leftist on the other side thinks my opinions make me less than human and thus, not worth talking to. Hollywood's issue is that it perceives opinions outside the bubble as evil, and that holding opinions that Hollywood approves of makes you better than everyone else.
Lawrence said that she thinks the public rejected her personality because she was "annoying." I disagree. I think her personality is endearing. The only thing annoying was her inability to just hear the other side out, for starters. If she had, she would've understood that many of the things she's passionate about, like women's rights, weren't anything conservatives were actually trying to tear apart. If she had just stopped and held a conversation with a pro-lifer in good faith, maybe she would've learned something interesting that might have softened her own stance.
But she didn't. She drew a hard line in the sand.
That's what I find so annoying about too many leftists, especially celebrities. They're so confident in their ignorance that they see any inconvenient fact as an excuse to shun the person who has it.
Disagree with me. Fine, but at least talk to me like an adult human. If you're so stuck up that you can't give me even that courtesy, then what's the point of engaging with you in any capacity?
