Jennifer Lawrence's Red Sparrow press blitz continued yesterday with a wide-sweeping interview with Howard Stern. She went on a heated rant about why the Versace dress controversy from last week was so ridiculous and takes away from the feminist movement. She called her critics "loud, you're annoying, you have no point. And what you also do is take away—you make people hate a movement," she said.
As she put it in full, people were missing context. She was not forced out in the cold:
No, I saw the cameras for the photo call, and I walked my bare ass out there for the photos. Nobody said, nobody took a coat from me. All this stuff of people trying to be feminist, and it's like, you're not. You're loud, you're annoying, you have no point. And what you also do is take away—you make people hate a movement. Something like Time's Up, the women who are running Time's Up and have started it, they're actually changing legislation, they're actually really getting stuff done. And they're not every day screaming out on the streets and on social media about it. And when these fringe people who have these blogs start creating [stories] and just being annoying as fuck, you know me wearing a fucking dress isn't like, feminist, you know that, you're not that fucking stupid. [The criticism was] that the men were wearing coats and I wasn't. It was a fabulous dress. I wasn't going to cover it up in a fucking coat and also I shoot in below freezing weather, in record-breaking winters, I can stand outside for 90 seconds in a dress. Yeah, [people want to see my dress] and I want the dress photographed like that. Do you have any idea how much weight I lose on press tours, reading comments? Oh my god. I wasn't going to put a coat on. My arms were finally skinny. It's gone now.
She also admitted to Stern that she's unsure if she'll talk to Ryan Seacrest, in the wake of his sexual abuse and harassment allegations by a former E! stylist becoming public, this Sunday at the Oscars while he's co-hosting the E! Live from the Red Carpet pre-show. While Lawrence herself openly admitted she did not know the full details of the Seacrest accusations (read in full about the Seacrest story here), she said her reasons to skip interviewing with E! go beyond Seacrest. 'I mean, there is a lot to think about with E!, you know?' she said, via People. 'I have always had a problem with the Fashion Police. I don't have a problem with talking about what women are wearing. There was a time they were…they were just mean about people's bodies, things you shouldn't say.'
J.Law also takes issue with the way they treat their female anchors, especially after the network's pay inequality was made public when Catt Sadler left E! after learning she was making less than her male co-host, Jason Kennedy. 'They aren't bringing another costar up,' Lawrence added. 'I have noticed that they keep cycling these women and I am going…is that so you don't have to pay another woman equally to Jason [Kennedy]? Is this just a way to still maintain that you are not paying women equally?'
With Seacrest, because Lawrence isn't fully informed on the issue, she's reserving judgement. 'I think it is scary, you know. He has not been to trial for anything. I am not a judge. I am not a jury, you know. I don't know… that is where this stuff gets tricky.'
Alyssa Bailey is the senior news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton). She previously held positions at InStyle and Cosmopolitan. When she's not working, she loves running around Central Park, making people take #ootd pics of her, and exploring New York City.
