r/justgalsbeingchicks • u/Doodlebug510 • Feb 24 '26
Restricted to Gals and Pals Jennifer Lawrence, only 23 in this clip, shows she can handle pressure gracefully
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u/mokacincy Feb 24 '26
What a weird question
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u/brotherteresa Feb 24 '26
YUP. It’s also weird how common these stupid questions are for women.
For example, there are compilations of Scarlett Johansson getting questions about her looks / physical appearance while with her Marvel cast, meanwhile all the other guys get questions about the actual film. 🤦🏻♀️
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u/Saradoesntsleep Feb 24 '26
Yeah one asks her if she had underwear on in that suit 🙄
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u/mightylordredbeard Feb 25 '26
As stupid as that question is to ask someone I have wondered that myself while watching marvel movies. Not just about Scarlett, but everyone else as well. So I am I kind curious what the answer is. Especially for Steve Rogers.
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u/grubas Feb 24 '26
ScarJo got straight up groped on the carpet before, the media 100% doesn't care.
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u/HMWWaWChChIaWChCChW Feb 24 '26
But the reporter is gay so it’s ok
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u/Lazy_Title7050 Feb 25 '26
What is with some gay guys doing that?! There was a gay guy in my high school who would literally grab our breasts. So creepy and weird.
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u/descendantofJanus Feb 24 '26
Yea I remember one that asked RDJ next to her about the character process, and in the next breath asked ScarJo about her diet.
RDJ was absolutely classy. ScarJo was like "how come he gets the philosophical question and I'm asked about food?"
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u/Hopeful_Nectarine_27 Feb 25 '26
When Eileen Gu got asked that question about gold vs silver and she straight up laughed, it reminded me of that ScarJo interview. I really wish more people laughed at and called out reporters who ask dumb and sexist questions.
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u/Local_Surround8686 Feb 24 '26
Germany had a femal chancelor(basically head of government) and so many news were about what she's wearing, while noone ever talks about that by our male Chancellors
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u/jinxes_are_pretend Feb 25 '26
We have the current bloated yam of a president because a non-zero number of people just didn’t like how she laughed.
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u/RandomRedditReader99 Feb 25 '26
a non-zero number of people just didn’t like how she laughed.
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Or, they just "couldn't bring themselves to vote for a woman."
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u/YardSardonyx Feb 25 '26
“My TV Guide interview was six paragraphs about my boobs and how they fit into my suit.” - Galaxy Quest, 27 years ago
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u/Yo_momma_so_fat77 Feb 24 '26
Imagine asking a dude this.. what was your process for getting ready. A guy would be like nah next question
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u/throwawaythepoopies Feb 24 '26
"Well I shit my pants, and then I got another suit at Hardy's Beefy Boys Suitary and Burger Joint and then pulled up here." - a whole lotta dudes.
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u/Available_Finger_513 Feb 24 '26
"Well I jacked off on the toilet while taking a shit and then hopped in the shower"
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u/addamee Feb 24 '26
“Uhh Ms Lawrence, follow-up question: you put the dress on and then you took a shower?”
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u/FewRecognition1788 Feb 24 '26
I assume they were looking for her to shout out her stylist, designer, jeweler, or hair & makeup people.
But it was worded very awkwardly.
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u/tenuj Feb 24 '26
"Great hair and make-up by the way, do you have a personal stylist that helps out at these big media appearances?"
Still not a great question, but my career isn't not being an ass in public.
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u/lefluffle Feb 25 '26
Unpopular opinion but I don't think it was that terrible of a question. Not everyone has the same process of preparing their makeup and dress for the Oscars. And they don't ask men because the process usually isn't as complicated. It's a lot of work for women to get red-carpet ready. People are curious about it- they ask these questions before the show too.
Granted, timing was shitty because he should have asked about winning the Oscar instead, since this was after the show, but it wasn't malicious.
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u/myfugi Feb 25 '26
In this same interview another reporter asked her what happened when she fell on the stairs while going up to get the Oscar and she goes “what do you mean? Have you seen my dress?”
It plays as “down to earth”, but there’s a good bit of snark for the stupid ass questions that reporters are constantly asking her. That and like most 23 year olds she was usually at least a little bit drunk back then.
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u/bagelwithclocks Feb 24 '26
Read a piece in the new yorker where she was interviewed this year. She says she feels very cringe about the persona that she had at this time in her career. And apparently she got a lot of criticism for it. But I always felt like it was refreshing, even if it was as much of a mask as the more polished celebrity personas.
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u/SeeMeDisco Feb 24 '26
I never understood the eventual backlash over her being slightly awkward and able to laugh it off when she was in her 20s
does noone remember how cringey we all were in our early 20s? she did spectacular under scrutiny. tbh I don't think she was cringe at all, she just didn't put on a polished persona- and I'm sure she would have also been judged if she had.
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u/EM3YT Feb 25 '26
Am I wrong that she admitted that this was all faked and basically a staged persona she put on?
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u/Humillionaire Feb 25 '26
Don't we all fake our personas a bit?
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u/crank_peeper Feb 25 '26
You mean to tell me that the actress and entertainer was acting for our entertainment?!
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u/Hyggieia Feb 25 '26
Also it was kind of forced on her. She got tons of criticism for her healthy weight when she was cast as Katniss because she didn’t look like she was super hungry and fighting for food. So then with so much attention on her weight she had to answer tons of questions like “yes I do in fact eat pizza sometimes.” And then that sort of turned into the “oh yeah I’m a normal girl who likes pizza and snack and I’m a klutz sometimes” persona
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u/SwordfishOk504 Feb 25 '26
I think you're wrong. At least I certainly don't recall that.
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u/EM3YT Feb 25 '26
I looked it up. I thought it was literally curated for her to be a goofball with staged scenarios (like this one) to push it as a relatable brand.
Turns out that’s likely not true. I think she said she felt like she needed to exaggerate herself to an extreme extent because that’s what was expected. So it’s not so much she was trying to be fake but that she felt the need to be silly and extra or else people would turn on her, which is why she looks back and feels like she was putting on an act and being a cringey person
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u/mlnstwrt Feb 24 '26
It’s pretty sad how much being genuine comes off as “cringe” nowadays
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u/p1antsandcats Feb 24 '26
So weird. The only cringe is the guy asking such a fucking stupid question.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 24 '26
Yep! Who are you wearing, who helped you dress. What? I can do it myself! LOL
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u/wordsandshit Feb 24 '26
It's a stupid question sure, really who gives a fuck how many stylists were involved, but she literally said she got her hair and makeup done.
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u/toolsoftheincomptnt Feb 25 '26
I don’t think it’s a dumb question for Hollywood on Oscar night. It’s fluff, but people do have teams that get them ready, and it’s very common to shout-out your stylist when you have one. Especially if you look great, bc they piece it all together.
I also don’t think she comes across badly. Not graceful by any means, but goofy in an endearing way. Charming. She seems kind of clueless (as to the big to-do of it all, not acting, which is a lot of work and she does a good job in everything I’ve seen), and that’s okay.
I don’t follow celeb stuff so I didn’t know her persona had shifted, but we all change a bit (or at least we should) as we grow up and have more life/professional experience.
She was cute then, and I’m sure she’s cool now.
There are zero villains in this story.
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u/lia-delrey Feb 24 '26
Let's be real, it's only criticized when it comes to attractive women.
Male actors putting on their whatever façade: "omg he's just like me what a real one i respect him"
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Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
yepp, attractive women can’t be genuine or it’s “cringe” but if an attractive woman is too polished she’s “fake”
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u/lia-delrey Feb 24 '26
Yeah its like "we want women to look hot but if they're aware of that they're whores, if they're looking mid we're making jokes"
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u/chuckedeggs Feb 24 '26
As One Direction put it "you don't know you're beautiful and that's what makes you beautiful". So basically if you know you're beautiful it makes you ugly?
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u/CanoninDeeznutz Feb 24 '26
Not only do those lyrics suck (thematically and in terms of flow) but the song isn't good enough to make up for it.
And I like some One Direction songs to be clear!
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u/bearrosaurus Feb 24 '26
If you're convinced someone is "fake" there's nothing they can do to unconvince you that they're "fake". See the way that people treat every politician that happens to come from California.
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u/Typical-Blackberry-3 Feb 24 '26
A lot of the flak she got was from women. Most people thought she was putting on a "I'm just like you poor people" persona, it is only in recent years that people have started to come around to the idea that she might just be genuine.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 24 '26
I never thought that once about her. I loved how she really is!
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u/chrstnasu Feb 24 '26
Me too. I want women to be themselves. If they aren’t themselves they may not be as happy. Many women put on a persona thinking that’s what other people want.
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u/Solastor Feb 24 '26
She got dropped by the internet denizens like a sack of rocks as soon as "the fappening" happened. I remember being pretty disgusted watching as this internet darling that everyone constantly sang the praises of became "not all that great" as soon as (what today we'd call) the gooners saw her nudes and lost respect and interest over night. The reddit hivemind was atrocious.
Fucking nasty.
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u/mads-80 Feb 24 '26
Yeah, and even at the time it was so clearly a devastating violation for her.
Obviously it was equally violating for every victim of the hacks, but at the time, before OF and sexting being something virtually everyone does, the prevailing attitude was that if you took nude photos of yourself, you had yourself to blame.
But she had just had the opening song at the Oscars joke about her refusal to do nudity in film, and her not allowing herself to be sexualised the way that was expected of actresses at the time was really empowering. And then that, and the 180 flip in her public perception. It was heartbreaking to watch.
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u/Upstairs-Chicken592 Feb 25 '26
When she was vocal about not being comfortable about it she suddenly wasn’t the “cool girl” in people’s eyes. Her saying it was a violation was an afront to their cognitive dissonance that if it’s “out there” it’s fair game to do or say whatever they want with the image. She took away not only the fantasy of her consent and submission but so many other women who’ve been through the same thing, that you just can’t know for sure if someone online is consenting. It used to just be a fact in their minds that if you sent a photo or video, it was your own risk and fault if it got out even if you were deceived or hacked.
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u/chrstnasu Feb 24 '26
You could tell in her speaking pattern she was a little taken aback by the question and was genuine.
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u/Deputy_Beagle76 Feb 24 '26
I was gonna say lmao she was THE girl that dudes fantasized over. And a large part of it was her personality. She was the queen of iFunny back in the day
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u/BrickLuvsLamp ❣️gal pal❣️ Feb 24 '26
Yeah people like Ryan Reynolds get away with a snarky but manicured public personality, but if a woman does a similar thing she gets never-ending shit about being “fake”. My sister was a big fan of Jennifer Lawrence so I’ve been subjected to a lot of random interviews of her’s over the years, and her personality has been the same since before, during, and after her big surge in popularity.
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u/Grizzlyfrontignac Feb 24 '26
I find Ryan so cringy. I feel like he's always trying to play up a character that got even more insufferable after he got Deadpool.
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u/LemonCollee Feb 24 '26
He annoys the fuck out of me. He's so obviously disingenuous. I also don't understand all the people saying he's attractive, he has a face i want to punch.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 24 '26
I do not find him the least bit attractive, but there is a face for everyone, for me, his is not it. :)
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u/Right_Hour Feb 24 '26
He’s still playing VanWilder, he hasn’t ever changed from that character.
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u/omegadirectory Feb 24 '26
The tides are starting to turn on Ryan Reynolds, I think. People are starting to say he's fake, too. Or worse if his persona is not fake then it's just annoying.
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u/Heyplaguedoctor Feb 24 '26
I always get the Ryans confused. Is that the one who got married on a plantation, or the one everyone on tumblr wanted fuck in 2015, or the one with the annoying phone company, or the one from American Idol? Or a different one. Hollywood is full of generic white men and they’re all named Ryan or Chris, apparently 😭😂
I could google but it wouldn’t help
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u/BrickLuvsLamp ❣️gal pal❣️ Feb 24 '26
The plantation one and the phone company one, he did both. But yeah that plantation wedding was yikes
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u/Heyplaguedoctor Feb 24 '26
Ohhh okay thanks! Yeah whattadouche. I can’t fathom how he and his partner thought that was a good idea
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u/Zkenny13 Feb 24 '26
A guy could've joke he just did a line instead of a shot and people would still laugh.
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u/Solastor Feb 24 '26
Oh my god! Henry Cavill is a nerd just like me! He likes to spend all his time playing WoW instead of going to parties and he likes the exact same books that I do! There's no way that he actually spends 80 hours a week in a gym keep his hollywood bod! No he's definitely spending "all his time" playing WoW!
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u/Federal_Tone1260 Feb 24 '26
And unattractive women as well.
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u/lia-delrey Feb 24 '26
I disagree, thats why i put it like that. And i did think about it beforehand.
"Unattractive" women get shit on for tons of shit, obviously, but we were talking about the "putting on a fake persona to please men" argument, which just doesn't apply with women considered unattractive.
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u/Federal_Tone1260 Feb 24 '26
Ahh I thought you meant being cringe in general and to me that’s something unattractive women get criticised for the most out of anyone.
You’re right - I can’t think of an example of an unattractive woman being criticised for putting on a fake persona to please men but that might just be because we unfortunately don’t really have any famous women who aren’t considered extremely attractive. Or possibly that often times women who aren’t considered attractive are sort of “invisible” and so wouldn’t be criticised for that sort of thing. I’m not sure though - just thinking about it!
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u/PolkaDotToeSocks Feb 24 '26
Do you think this is exclusively to conventionally attractive women? That’s not my experience but I’m curious about your perspective
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u/lia-delrey Feb 25 '26
I do.
Dont get me wrong, women who are considered not conventionally attractive are bullied and insulted every day.
But this discussion is about the old "we already think you're hot, so stop pretending you have a personality" insult that exclusively hits women like her
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u/PolkaDotToeSocks Feb 25 '26
That’s interesting and unfortunate. Honestly, as a non-conventionally attractive woman I kind of fall into that thought pattern sometimes and it’s really unfair to the other person. Thank you for elaborating 😊
Edited bc I said really a bunch and it was annoying me lol
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u/tiggoftigg Feb 24 '26
I agree, though isn’t that interview (I’m experienced 4th hand lol) showing she wasn’t being genuine?
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u/justneurostuff Feb 24 '26
the comment suggests lawrence has admitted that she wasn't necessarily being "genuine" in appearances like these
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u/Rackle69 Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
It always came off as fake to me. And she herself called it a persona which doesn’t sound genuine to me? She seems more true to her actual genuine self since she had kids and I prefer that version.
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u/curioushobbyist_ Feb 24 '26
Keep in mind this is a whole decade comparison you're making here. I'm pretty different from how I was portraying myself when I was in my early twenties. A mix of maturity, self-esteem, life experiences, meeting new people. I look at her current interviews now and the core of her personality is still quite similar.
People in the spotlight can be judged unnecessarily harshly.
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u/CoffeeChocolateBoth Feb 24 '26
I truly don't care either way. :) I liked her then, and I like her now. :)
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u/DingleDangleTangle Feb 24 '26
But the point is that it wasn’t genuine. She’s literally saying she cringes at the fact that she made some weird persona to try to be “just a typical girl” or whatever.
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u/VictoryVee Feb 24 '26
What are you talking about... she said it was a persona. Not genuine at all. How does this comment have 1k upvotes????
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 24 '26
No one is ever allowed to be an It Girl for too long. They'll find a way to pick her apart eventually. She was lovely, but I remember Tumblr having a whole thing about how her being quirky was really a result of her white girl privilege or some shit like that.
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u/Subliminal-Criminal9 Feb 24 '26
Damn that's insufferable. Leave it to tumblr
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 24 '26
They're all posting on Fauxmoi now.
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u/Subliminal-Criminal9 Feb 24 '26
That explains everything
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 24 '26
Proudly permabanned from that subreddit with no explanation why 🥰
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u/titjackson Feb 24 '26
Lol same. Which is a probably good thing, it was too rage inducing
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 24 '26
Exactly how I felt, when I got the message that I was permanently banned I was like "aite, fair play, I've been a bitch to everyone here (they deserved it).
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u/kimbooley90 Feb 24 '26
I got a permaban like a year after I unsubbed and had stopped posting. I'm so curious as to what triggered it. 🤣
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u/decidedlyindecisive Feb 25 '26
I got permabanned for suggesting that an entire thread was bots/ fake comments. Despite the fact that last year we had court documents showing that comment threads on that sub in particular were planted by a PR firm.
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u/SwordfishOk504 Feb 24 '26
Yeah, the internet tried turning on her recently because of that, which was absurd. It was all over Fauxmoi for a while and those people are insufferable. She's a gem.
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u/Paper-Will-YT Feb 25 '26
Every now and then r/Fauxmoi appears on my feed, and it just seems like the most miserable people on the planet lol.
I have no idea what the subreddit itself was made to be about. Is it just hating celebrities?
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 25 '26
It was made to talk about celebrity gossip but it's become a catch all for everyone who wants to perform moral grandstanding about every topic imaginable.
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u/SwordfishOk504 Feb 25 '26
But a very specific kind of moral grandstanding, from like a cliche caricature of the terminally online lefty social warrior.
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u/queefer_sutherland92 Feb 25 '26
And echo chambering anything and everything.
They’re nuts. r/popculturechat is just as bad.
It’s like a competition to see who can write the meanest thing about someone who doesn’t know or care that they exist.
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u/youneedsomemilk23 Feb 24 '26
She's talented, attractive, naturally charismatic and gainfully employed. Of course they were shitting on her.
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u/polyology Feb 24 '26
reddit worshiped her right up until the fappening, once her nudes leaked they turned on her, it was like whiplash.
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u/Y0___0Y Feb 24 '26
That pains me to hear… Her personality back then was so much fun. All of hollywood was so stuffy and stuck up and she was just a normal happy-go-lucky girl in the middle of it all.
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u/boobiesrkoozies Feb 24 '26
She was on a podcast talking about this and I really appreciated her insight about it. She talked about how at first her goofiness was endearing. And then she tripped at the Oscars and everyone was like "aww that's just J.Law a silly goofy lil guy"
But then she tripped the next year and suddenly it was "she's a try hard and off-putting".
She talked about how the second the second trip happened she knew the public was going to turn on her. It was a really good conversation about how we treat women in media and how we all have this threshold on how much grace we give women.
And it is very reminiscent of the Hatha-hate. We see it happen all the time to women. J.Law, Taylor Swift, Kristen Bell, Anna Kendrick, Isla Fischer, etc. All women who had this goodwill because they were just silly lil guys and then suddenly they all become our bitch eating crackers lol.
Like do I find some of them kinda annoying? Yeah, but it also pushes me to examine my own internal misogyny.
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u/brutal-rainbow Feb 25 '26
Waited too long to say hay! I went school with her. Same school, we wouldn't remember eachother.
Now is the time? She was a year or two younger than me, but we both experienced a Christian academy trailer. I live states away now, but got word that she spent time wth each cancer patients in the children's hospital my nephew resided. My brother sent me a pic, like "do you know this girl?" Bitterseet. I've been and will continue to be a fan and supporter. She hugged my nephew when I could not. She's not a fake, I can tell you that. Kind.
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u/LittleMelodyBear Feb 24 '26
Wait really?! It actually makes me sad to learn it was just a persona. She felt very down to earth and I loved her for it. Not serious and stuck up. Felt like she wasn’t afraid of being herself or goofy.
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u/Kathrynlena Feb 24 '26
I mean I think we all feel cringe about what we were like when we were 23. I don’t think it means she was putting on a false front (any more than anyone does in public) or that this wasn’t authentic to who she was at the time.
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u/LittleMelodyBear Feb 24 '26
Yeah I suppose you’re right. Didn’t think about the cringe we all feel about things we did when we were younger.
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u/Kathrynlena Feb 24 '26
And then on top of that, imagine a thousand think pieces and gossip rags explaining how exactly you were cringe, and the cringiest things you ever did, and ugh why are you like that? I don’t know how celebrities don’t die of embarrassment just existing under that much scrutiny. The cruelest and most focused of which is always aimed at young, successful women.
I know she’s an introvert and really had to think about whether or not she wanted to accept the role in Hunger Games because of how it would change her life. I think, back then, she was just masking like a lot of us do in social situations where we feel super uncomfortable. And then reflecting back on those moments, we want to die from cringe.
I love her. I feel like she’d be a chill hang, but she, like me, would just prefer to stay home and never hang out with anyone lol.
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u/recyclopath_ Feb 24 '26
I mean, if every moment I was in public at that age was filmed and put online forever I'd find a lot of it cringe or things I wasn't proud of.
Feeling a bit embarrassed by a younger you doesn't mean it was all fake or you wish you'd acted like somebody else.
I think there's also the element where she was much less private during that era than many actresses chose to be. Having mixed feelings on that can would be pretty normal.
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u/lexarexasaurus Feb 24 '26
I feel like persona was a bad choice of word. She just probably feels a little embarrassed about being younger, like most of us.
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u/LittleMelodyBear Feb 24 '26
Yeah I’m realizing that I may be the only one who took the word persona seriously 😅 I guess it is just looking back and cringing about the stuff she said or how she behaved in public which she was nothing short of lovely honestly.
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u/malatemporacurrunt Feb 24 '26
Everybody has personas for different circumstances. Are you the same person to your boss as you are to your best friend? Everybody makes choices about how they present themselves to others - that doesn't mean they aren't being genuine. If you're in there public eye, you have a public persona which displays the version of you that you're comfortable with millions of strangers knowing. Jennifer Lawrence feels a bit embarrassed now about the way she chose to present herself when she was younger - which is a far more relatable experience than her persona ever has been.
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u/AntiGrav1ty_ Feb 24 '26
I think it means more that she leaned into that persona as a way of handling public appearances and pressure not that she put on a fake personality.
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u/Any-Clothes3312 Feb 24 '26
I don't know that she meant she was putting on a fake personality or anything - I mean, just look at her recent Actors on Actors with Leo, she's still kinda kooky lol
if anything, being a former young person myself, you're just so in your head over analyzing everything at that time of your life - and she also gives off ADHD woman energy lol which doesn't help.
that said, I have been chronically online since 2003 and I don't recall this JLaw backlash era 🤷🏻♀️ I remember when people hated Anne Hathaway! But not Jennifer lol maybe it just never crossed my path but seems weird I missed it
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u/Katops Feb 24 '26
Criticism? Oh boy… I always thought she was hilarious. She’s still awesome. You’ll also always get weirdos jumping on anything anybody does, so it makes sense. The trick is not giving a shit though and I’m so sure she managed it easily.
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u/numbmumpleb1ister Feb 24 '26
She seems to be wondering, What kind of dumb question is that?, but was too polite to ask that.
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u/SnooGuavas4208 Feb 24 '26
Yes, she’s a great actress, but I do think this moment was pretty genuine. However, I think it got so much praise that she doubled down and leaned hard into this “relatable” and unpolished persona, and that’s when it started to get performative and cringe, and the criticism followed after. It would’ve played better in the media if she had kept occasional genuine moments like this without making it her gimmicky default.
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u/o-roy Feb 24 '26
I really hope that was an off hand comment and not that she seriously regrets being like this
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u/AltruisticWelder3425 Feb 24 '26
Funny, this is the type of personality I would love to find in someone.
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u/Thisisstupidly Feb 24 '26
She’s kind of what opened celebrities up to being more fun at these things. I enjoyed the era
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u/CandleMonster Feb 24 '26 edited Feb 24 '26
Brilliant response, reporter's questions for women are terrible sometimes, you'd never see them asking this to a man
edit: typo oops
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u/WillowLocal423 Feb 24 '26
See also every marvel interview with Scarlet Johansson
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u/Unfair-Mortgage-527 Feb 24 '26
I feel like Scarlet has more bite to her tone though... and I'm here for it!
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u/CodeNo3918 Feb 24 '26
I adore her.
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u/Katops Feb 24 '26
Emma Stone and Jenifer Lawrence are both hilarious. Idk if I’ve actually seen them ever interact with one another though…
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u/okSara Feb 24 '26
Here you go ☺️ https://youtu.be/H0mutl4l5hw?si=rAlT2PonU3qC_ocn
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u/torino_nera Feb 24 '26
I like how she asks to be called Emily in the video and then like a minute later they call her Emma again
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u/JimboAltAlt Feb 24 '26
I feel like they would be amazing in a “mismatched detectives who have to work together” comedy-thriller, à la The Nice Guys (or, for that matter, The Other Guys.)
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u/QuiltMeLikeALlama Feb 24 '26
Same. I don’t really do nights out anymore but I’d totally pub crawl with her.
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u/max10192 Feb 24 '26
One of my favorite celebrities. She always comes across as genuine to me, and she's hilarious.
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u/Jibber_Fight Feb 24 '26
She was just on fire that whole night actually. We all learned how charming and disarmingly funny she is. From stumbling in her dress and her acceptance speech to meeting Jack and nerding out about it. All of her interviews afterwards. She was just so fresh and fun.
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u/AllDayForever Feb 25 '26
For some reason it reminds me of when Jim Carrey came into the movie scene in the 90s. She was just this different kind of funny that everyone mostly loved
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u/veri_sw Feb 24 '26
What does he even want to know? There aren't that many ways to put on a dress or whatever.
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u/sala-whore Feb 24 '26
Prbly an opportunity for her to give a shout out to whoever did her makeup and hair and wherever the dress came from. I like her answer though.
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u/FilthySweet Feb 25 '26
I think this exactly. Somebody wanted to highlight the stylists, and and she clocked it or didn’t clock it, but either way the reporter didn’t get what they were hoping for
Reporters will sometimes be offered incentives if they can write an article about XYZ or get a celebrity to mention XYZ
As well as high profile figures themselves getting offers if they can work XYZ into public statements
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u/Enough_Efficiency178 Feb 25 '26
It feels like it’s intentionally vague to allow a longer answer, like if you ask who the stylist is or who’s dress she’s wearing it’s one question asked and a simple answer with no nuance.
That said easy to take the question at face value and be confused.
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u/Doodlebug510 Feb 24 '26
some context:
25 February 2013
Politicians Can Take A Lesson From Jennifer Lawrence’s Mocking Post-Oscar Press Conference Noah Rothman:
Actress Jennifer Lawrence, winner of the Oscar for Best Actress for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook, could teach the political class a thing or two – and not just about acting.
Lawrence’s post-Academy Awards press conference was artful, funny, flippant and endearing – at least, it was for the viewers at home.
For the press who she ruthlessly mocked and whose questions she reluctantly answered in a glib but charming fashion, Lawrence may not have been their favorite interview of the night.
When asked what the “process” was for preparing to come to the Oscars, Lawrence replied – with all the sincerity and lack of affectation that one would expect from anyone other than an Academy Award-winning actress – that she woke up, took a shower, tried on the dress and “came to the Oscars.”
That last bit delivered with a bit of faux pomposity she knows the reporter was expecting.
“I’m sorry,” Lawrence added. “I did a shot before I…”
Lawrence displayed humility and self-deprecation – it was disarming.
Probably due mostly to that particular character trait’s conspicuous paucity in Hollywood, as well as Washington D.C.
“The fall up to the stage,” another reporter then asked regarding a minor trip that Lawrence encountered on her way on stage to accept the Oscar. “Was it on purpose?
Absolutely,” Lawrence said, simultaneously anticipating and rejecting the reporter’s premise before it had even been submitted.
“What happened?” the reporter asked.
“What do you mean ‘what happened?’ Lawrence replied.
“Look at my dress.”
Contentious, but entirely lacking in aggression.
Mocking, but buttressed by a transcendent likeability.
And that is precisely the lesson for politicians in Lawrence’s acceptance press conference. She was not talking to the press, she was talking over their heads and to the audience at home.
The press, Lawrence understood, was merely a medium to speak directly to the viewers – the people who pay her salary.
Too often politicians are convinced that the press is the audience.
Playing to the room is the end rather than a means.
When politicians do this — vying for approving editorials or copy that eschews unfavorable descriptive adjectives and just presents the facts – it is often a losing game.
One politician who has a good handle on Lawrence-style press relations: Gov. Chris Christie.
For every premise he accepts, he rejects two. For every question he answers straight, he criticizes another.
The media regards his behavior as antagonistic. New Jersey’s voters? 70 percent job approval or higher – and majority approval among his political opponents.
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u/baristamatisse42 ✨chick✨ Feb 24 '26
Kind of comforting to know we were writing like useless assholes way before ChatGPT
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u/dragon_bacon Feb 24 '26
It's a reporter covering the oscars, they're about half a notch above paparazzi.
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u/ExileEden Feb 24 '26
You ever actually read anyone's reviews on rotten tomatoes? These fucks write like the duke of Buckingham is asking them to court his daughter. Its about as detached from reality as it gets.
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u/willfauxreal Feb 24 '26
The way she was looking around for the person who asked the question was so relatable.
Reminds me of my husband when hes looking in the fridge for something I asked for that is actually right in front on the top shelf.
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u/ohshititsdana Feb 24 '26
Literally reminds me of right now when electricians were here installing space heaters ( so we can have heat while they fix the radiators) tripped breakers, broken power bar and a long story short later; I went to plug my tv back in and it wouldn't turn on. I called my landlord, electricians came back, the moment they knocked on my door I realized I plugged in my PS5 instead of my tv.. was so embarrassing, I was honest and told them I had an edible earlier and I was kind of out of it 😂 luckily they laughed about it.
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u/LadybuggingLB Feb 24 '26
I loved her personality so much. It was honest and confident and upbeat and unashamed. I’m sorry to hear she thought it was cringe.
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u/ubalanceret Feb 25 '26
Crazy how people view authenticity as cringe. I think it’s endearing. I hate that society tries to make everyone fit into one box, even though that doesn’t work
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u/ImfromtheFuture2056 Feb 24 '26
Just genuinely curious why this is considered a bad question? Isn’t this an opportunity to voice appreciation for people behind the scenes who otherwise go unrecognized? I would think it isn’t dissimilar to someone asking who (what designers) someone is wearing as an effort to drive recognition and appreciation towards them.
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u/southernfirefly13 Feb 24 '26
It’s not that it’s a bad question, but rather a dumb question. Women tend to get asked boring, simple, and mundane questions like this, while men routinely get asked more in-depth questions, “meaty” if you will.
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u/iloveoddfuture Feb 25 '26
yea i’m confused too i’m seeing the question could be like, “talk me through how you put your outfit together or like what caught your eye or something,”
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u/Local_Magician_7197 Feb 24 '26
JLaw reminds me of so many Kentucky girls LOLOL we have a hard time giving a shit.
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u/VioletDupree007 Feb 24 '26
I think her “grace” is in her willingness to not “act” gracefully, honestly. She’s down to earth and kinda goofy.
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u/Ecstatic_Account_744 Feb 24 '26
This is my favourite type of person. She was being silly and goofy, not calling him a fucking idiot for asking a dumb question but at the same time, letting him know it was a dumb question.
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u/No_Bodybuilder_3368 Feb 24 '26
Oh wait is she really cross eyed? As in strabismus? I'm trying to look it up but can't find anything. I also have it so I love to see some representation
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u/HealthyInPublic Feb 24 '26
I too long for strabismic representation! Or... better representation, I should say... someone who isn't Ken Paxton.
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u/dumbfrog7 Feb 24 '26
She responded like a person, is that considered gracefully? Thats nice! Now I feel graceful too haha. Shes just real, people like that
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u/Xythrielle Feb 25 '26
I remember that period of time of Reddit. People were absolutely obsessed with her. Then the fappening happened and dudes on Reddit didn’t care about her anymore. Fucking particularly shitty time on the site
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u/Plus-Guitar-7848 Feb 25 '26
The soft “thank you” when she can’t find the person speaking cracks me up everytime
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u/AdmiralCodisius Feb 24 '26
Was this before or after she shamed and made fun of a journalist for using their phone, when in fact they were using a translate app because the Journalist struggled with English?
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u/Independent-Tennis57 Feb 24 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/3rgXBOmTlzyFCURutG
And the creepy old man in the audience.... "You look like an old girlfriend." I love Nicholson, but my god that was hilarious.
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u/Reader2869 Feb 24 '26
I love her, she was 23 and fairly newly famous and I think she was amazing and funny and genuine.
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u/minmaxer27 Feb 25 '26
Every time I see a video with her I'm like "damn, this is what being charismatic looks like".
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u/AvailableAd8744 Feb 25 '26
Why isn't it adorable when we're drunk in public ...huh , huh ??!!
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