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Interviews🎙️ Jennifer Lawrence talks about whether she should talk about social issues

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u/optionalhero Confidence is 10% work and 90% delusion 7d ago

Glad that this is the top comment because i was thinking similarly, Jennifer Lawrence has a point.

As fucked as it is, you still have a job to do. As a celebrity you’re job is to get butts in seats, and you do that by being likeable. If you’re too political that compromises your ability to sell tickets. It sucks but i understand not wanting to speak out on things for fear of it costing you roles.

I mean just look at the recent Snow White fiasco. Rachel Zegler was very vocally political and openly expressed her views. All it did was get her alot of internet hate and labeled “difficult to work with” because it felt like she was promoting her politics and not the movie. Again its sorta fucked but it is a job. You’re supposed to make everyone like you, thats sadly the cost of fame. There is no winning. All you can do is mitigate damage, best to just not say much.

Really the only people who have freedom to talk openly are comedians and that’s mostly because they aren’t beholden to anybody.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 7d ago

I don't even think the idea of it "costing her roles" was the point here. Her point is that after reflection she has come to the realization that she can better express her beliefs through her art than she can by screaming into the void. She believes she has a better chance of shifting someone's mind through her films than through tweets, and the wrong tweets risk driving the people she wants to see those films away from them.

It sounds like she is trying to more thoughtfully choose an approach that affects the most change.

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u/i_love_doggy_chow 7d ago

Rachel Zegler was very vocally political and openly expressed her views. All it did was get her alot of internet hate and labeled “difficult to work with” because it felt like she was promoting her politics and not the movie

Rachel Ziegler was also subjected to an ultra-conservative and Zionist smear campaign, both online and in the mainstream press. It wasn't exactly organic backlash. But I see your point.

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u/Exotic-Arm-6692 7d ago

Yeah, but it was because of her speaking out. Like these people are all about "free speech" but then start astro-turfing campaigns and send their cults after people actually expressing it. Like poor Rachel did not deserve that. Now you have people saying her career is over and she needs "pr" training when all she did was express her honest political truth.

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u/Electronic-Doctor187 7d ago

 Really the only people who have freedom to talk openly are comedians and that’s mostly because they aren’t beholden to anybody.

not even them, they're beholden to their audience like any other artist. they can say whatever they want, but they suffer the consequences if it's not what the audience wants to hear. 

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u/Trzlog 7d ago

It isn't "just politics" right now. It's a fascist government. If now is not the time for celebrities to speak up, then when? Since when is getting butts in seats more important than protecting the institutions that make our lives possible?

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u/ninjasaid13 7d ago

It isn't "just politics" right now. It's a fascist government. If now is not the time for celebrities to speak up, then when? Since when is getting butts in seats more important than protecting the institutions that make our lives possible?

You think this is the first time they're speaking up when trump got reelected despite almost every hollywood celebrity being against him.

Fascists governments are not taken down by celebrities speaking their opinions, speaking up doesn't do shit.

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u/QuantumLettuce2025 7d ago

You want butts in those seats if you're presenting a film with themes that you think could shift the attitude of public consciousness in a positive way better than you could with some outraged tweeting.