Serena, a Depression-era period piece released to VOD after years on the shelf, was an embarrassment. She was one of the biggest female stars in the world — yet somehow managed to disappoint at every turn. So much of the frustration, the fed-up-ness, and the fatigue directed toward Lawrence derived from lingering Cool Girl behaviors. And like so many massive female stars before her, Lawrence is a far better actor than most of her roles— or the discourse around them — reflect.
We see what we want to see. Lawrence seems increasingly frustrated that everyone keeps missing the point — misinterpreting or mismarketing her movies and generally ignoring any evidence of growth from the persona that solidified around her at age In the conversation with Stern , that exhaustion is raw: because Lawrence is funny, and because the image of her created in her early twenties is rooted in chill, and because, as a year-old, she periodically does or says things that still fit that image, most people refuse to take her — or her causes, or opinions, or acting — seriously.
But does Jennifer Lawrence deserve our sympathy? Dozens of other stars, from Joan Crawford to Julia Roberts, have carried the burden of similar image prisons. But the Cool Girl is a particularly inflexible one, which is part of the reason it goes in and out of fashion. In five years, Lawrence will be in her early thirties, past what Hollywood considers her prime and peak palatability, nearing the age when Cool Girl behaviors start to signify as desperate, even sloppy.
What Lawrence does with the coming year off from acting — politically, but also performatively — will dictate just how intractable her image will become. Will she actually go on a college tour, to places like her home state of Kentucky, to fight corruption in politics?
Will she start her oft-mentioned production company — and produce better projects for herself and other women? All rights reserved. All total or partial use of the content of this website is prohibited. EN IT. Username or Email Address.
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