Jennifer Lawrence is BREEZY. It’s easy to be breezy when you’re sipping a cocktail, at twilight, on the beach. Not as simple when you’re up for Best Actress at the biggest celebrity event of the year and the world is watching. Unless, of course, you’re Jennifer Lawrence and then it’s NBD. She can trip up stairs, expose her thighs and flirt with Jack Nicholson without breaking a sweat. She fields press questions like she’s at happy hour with her homies. It’s very refreshing.
Which is why we LOVED her unplugged reaction to seeing her Miss Dior photo spread for the first time. She was being interviewed by Access Hollywood at the Oscars when she first saw the pictures. JLaw goes, “Oh my God, I haven’t seen these…” She takes a quick glance and squeals, “That doesn’t look like me at all! I love Photoshop more than anything in the world!”
The host of Access Hollywood tried to explain to her that the pictures didn’t look Photoshopped and Jennifer quickly set him straight. She replied, “Of course it’s Photoshopped. People don’t look like that.”
People don’t look like that, but she kinda does. After watching Silver Linings Playbook a guy friend of mine commented on her looks saying, “She looks CGI. She has no pores, she’s just perfect.” So if anyone on the planet doesn’t need the help of Photoshop it’s Miss Lawrence. The fact that she was retouched highlights the absurdity of our beauty-crazed culture. If a 22-year-old knockout is getting digitally enhanced, then we can rest assured, none of the pictures we see in the glossies are the truth. We know this on some level but it’s so good to hear it out loud. I also imagined the people at Dior frantically running around the office, fabric flying and Blackberry’s shorting out after they heard her comment.
Her face is near perfection and her attitude is 100% real. She’s funny and spontaneous and sharp. There are examples of actresses who aren’t as breezy as Jennifer Lawrence but JLaw would never mention them so neither will I. Hollywood has a way of changing people but fingers crossed this It Girl’s outlook will remain perfectly imperfect.
Aw Jennifer Lawrence is so awesome
Wait, so JLaw saying “people don’t look like that” = Photoshop blasting? I was anticipating something along the lines of Jennifer going on a rant about how unrealistic beauty standards are, or how she was going to demand to be un-’shopped at her next photoshoot. What she said is hardly ‘blasting,’ but congratulations! You got me in here and reading the article, which is what you wanted.
THIS.
lol, so a technical evaluation is made after watching a movie? rofl.
You know, there’s a “make up” roulotte on every movie set… every actor gets a treatment, not because (s)he needs to look beautiful, but for the simple reason that they need to look good on camera (and that is related to lights on the set, first and foremost)
@Melissa haha. If anything she is making fun of the standards that photoshop presents. She openly admits that it looks nothing like her. It’s like being painted. Just because it isn’t picture perfect doesn’t mean her reaction can’t be positive. And you, ma’am, need to just calm the f*ck down. Go get laid or something. Jesus.
and her acknowledgement that it doesn’t look like her means she doesn’t identify with it and doesn’t hold herself to that unattainable level of perfection.
and ya know, there’s nothing inherently wrong with appreciating something (photoshop) or someone (a photoshopper) who makes you look nicer than your usual self. it’s like getting gussied up for a party or a dance. it’s not how you look all the time, it might not even be how you feel most of the time, but it’s still fun to do every once in a while.
No link to this interview?
Sometimes I think ads can be or are meant to be art- this isn’t necessarily supposed to be the real JLaw here. I’m sure even the Dove models are Photoshopped; hi-res doesn’t lie. Now if only they could do this with video since HD is even more unforgiving. Plus, we as consumers are pretty well aware at this point that models in ad campaigns have had some level of editing done to them. As someone who’s dabbled in modeling, I’m a fan of Photoshop. I’m not saying I’d be OK with being shaved down to a size zero or completely changing my facial structure (I know that is done in the industry and I think that level of editing is absurd), but smoothing out my skin, fixing a random fly-away hairs or an unflattering shadow is fine by me. I don’t see how that’s wrong.
@Melissa Dunn LIGHTEN UP you negative Nancy! Just because you don’t feel good about yourself and your self-image doesn’t mean that she is propagating anything unrealistic. She is 22 years old. Give the girl a break. If she is pleased that they did such a nice job with her shots, LET HER. You don’t need to go off on some horsesh!t tangent about how inadequate society makes you feel. Get over yourself.
She supports the propagation of unrealistic standards of beauty (as accomplished via Photoshop). Fantastic! Now THERE is a ROLE MODEL for the young women of America!!!!!!!!!!!!!! A woman whose digitized image men will HOPEFULLY be used to compare all REAL women to and JUDGE them PERPETUALLY INADEQUATE! I’m psyched. What about you guys?!!! Grrr!
I don’t think she’s perfect. I think it’s her imperfections that make her feel so approachable. She either has a PR genius hiding behind a curtain somewhere or she’s just a down to earth person. Either way, I love watching all of her antics.
Ha! If there is a PR wizard behind it all then they need a raise. Big time.
this is fabulous, and so is she! i love her attitude!
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This woman can do no wrong for me. Like, it’s not even normal how perfect I think she is. And this is exactly why! Good for her. Not only do I like how she insisted she was photoshopped, but then kind of…laughed about it. She didn’t go on a soapbox declaring photoshop the most awful thing to ever happen to our society, but dismissed it in a–to use your word–breezy way. She picks and chooses her battles while still being honest about how she feels, and I think that makes her my new best friend.
I work in the industry, they are all Photoshopped! Sometimes it’s the littlest thing (like stray hair), sometimes it’s a total makeover but it’s always done.