Juan Naharro Gimenez/Getty Images(LOS ANGELES) — Jennifer Lawrence was surprised by the strong reaction her essay on the gender-pay gap in Hollywood received following its publication last year.
The Oscar winner addressed the lack of equal pay for women in Hollywood in an essay for Lena Dunham’s Lenny Letter.
“I had no idea it was going to blow up like that,” she now tells Harper’s Bazaar magazine. “And I obviously only absorbed the negative. I didn’t pay attention to the positive feedback.
“My parents get really upset,” she continues. “They do not like me speaking out about anything political because it’s hard to see your kid take criticism. But, really, people who criticized it are people who think women should not be paid the same as men.”
Lawrence says she doesn’t care what those critics think of her. “I try not to be too sensitive to the ‘poor rich girl’ jokes,” she adds. “I was saying my reality is absolutely fabulous, but it is not the reality of a lot of women in America. That’s what I’m talking about.”
On the issue of body image in Hollywood, the 25-year-old actress declares, “I would like us to make a new normal-body type. Everybody says, ‘We love that there is somebody with a normal body!’ And I’m like, ‘I don’t feel like I have a normal body.’”
Lawrence’s comments appear in the May issue of Harper’s Bazaar. You can catch her on the big screen on May 27, when she returns as the blue, shape-shifting mutant Mystique in X-Men: Apocalypse.
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