As a young actress thrown into the spotlight, Jennifer
Lawrence does all she can to stay relatable in the face of a lifestyle that has
turned many a teenager from the girl next door into a grown woman shoved into
the body of a 16 year old. In this interview Jennifer Lawrence strives to
accentuate that despite her fame and fortune this is, in fact, just a job.
Despite the new lifestyle that she so firmly renounces Jennifer puts all of her
hardships aside and manages to cling on to the spark of her innocence and
youth. In the first movie I had seen of hers, Silver Linings Playbook, she was
portrayed as a widow who, in the aftermath of such a great loss, had been suffering
major psychological issues. She was a lot of things in this movie but a child
was definitely not one of them. In the next movie I saw that she starred in,
The Hunger Games, I saw a completely different side of her. She was a young
teen put in a hard position and was forced to grow up entirely too fast. The
second film captures Jennifer’s “real” personality in a completely different
way than the first and much more closely parallels the life she strives for her
fans to see her living; although in a much different setting. The interviewer
refers to her “refreshing self image” in more than one way throughout the
interview, further solidifying the audience’s opinion of the young star. With
no loaded questions or set ups for disaster, the interviewer came across as an
old friend rather than an attacker or enemy as has been seen in some of the
interviews we have seen of actresses like Angelina Jolie. With Jennifer in,
what she refers to as, the “peak of her career” it makes a lot of sense that
people wouldn’t be trying to portray her in a negative way. The starlet has
almost a cult like fan following of teenagers and young adults that feed off
her charismatic energy and the similarities they see when they look in the
mirror. Jennifer refers to herself being “star struck” not once but twice
throughout the seven minute interview along with references to feeling “lost in
school” and “stupid,” this interview doesn’t go 20 seconds without a reminder
that despite the different lifestyles, we shouldn’t forget that she’s just like
us. After analyzing this interview the main idea isn’t something you really
have to dig for. The interviewer and interviewee make a dream team when
portraying Jennifer Lawrence as your sweet neighbor down the street. The
viewers get insights into her childhood and get to view intimate clips of the
beginning of her acting days when Bradley Cooper and Meryl Streep are names
that she wouldn’t even recognize and all she wanted was the attention of her
father while she put on skits in the home office. After this interview viewers
see Jennifer exactly as she wanted it. A girl more like yourself than anyone
you see on the big screen, a girl fresh out of her teens who would rather sit
at home on a Friday night than go to big movie premiers, and who still strives
for nothing more than to make her parents proud.
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