In The Week of Jennifer Lawrence, some J-Law stories have fallen through the cracks, because that’s just the way it goes. Jennifer is so good at blanketing the media during promotional tours that it becomes an embarrassment of riches for entertainment journalists and bloggers. So many quotes, so little time. All of which to say, I totally missed the fact that she made a comment on guns, gun control and whether the Hollywood glamorization of violence is partially to blame for the prevalence of gun violence in America. She said:

“I think that, you know, we’re the entertainment industry. At some point, there has to be a separation between politics and the entertainment industry or we’re going to suffer. It’s an art, and it’s an art to entertain. And as an industry, we will suffer, and people need to take that responsibility upon themselves [and not just blame Hollywood]. The same kind of violence is in different parts of the country that don’t have as many problems as we do…I think the problem is guns not the entertainment industry.”

[From Elle]

Seeing her comments (from an interview on the red carpet, where she admitted to being absolutely wasted) in print makes them seem… scattered. I think she’s saying “don’t blame Hollywood for gun violence” but she just goes about it in a weird way. Here’s the video:

“I think the problem is guns, not the entertainment industry.” #JenniferLawrence says the movie industry should not be a scapegoat for school shootings. pic.twitter.com/xiD0YW4jIQ

— InStyle (@InStyle) February 27, 2018

Jennifer also chatted with the Washington Post, and most of this is typical self-conscious, self-aware celebrity navel-gazing, but there were a few interesting passages:

She’s chill — if not exactly thrilled — when she’s asked what it’s like to miss out on this year’s Oscar season, despite leaving it all on the field as a woman driven to emotional extremes in Darren Aronofsky’s “Mother!” last fall. “I’m having a fine time,” Lawrence says. “I hopefully will have a long career ahead of me, I have good friends who are going, I’m happy for them. I think watching the [Golden] Globes from home with my friend, eating pizza was, like, the best night. I’m like, ‘This is where it’s at.’”

She pauses for a sip of tea. “Did that sound cocky? I feel like people can’t hear the inflection of my voice. Because sometimes I read things back and I’m like, ‘What the [expletive]? Who the [expletive] do you think you are?’ Because really, I’m deeply insecure, everybody, so . . .” Her voice trails off before she adds an aside with a half-deprecating laugh. “Not really.”

“I don’t feel like there’s any reason for me not to act like a normal person,” Lawrence explains about what critics insist is her calculatedly unpretentious persona. “It’s as simple as that. I really can’t take credit for it. I have not seen yet a reason why I should act differently.” Should that reason arise, she assured her public, “I’ll turn into a total a–hole. Mark my words.”

[From The Washington Post]

This is actually the second year in a row where Jennifer has “missed out” on being nominated for major awards. It wouldn’t be so notable but for the fact that for what felt like five solid years, she was being nominated for every one of her performances. It was overkill and she was incredibly overexposed, and I think she knew that too. That being said, she wanted ‘Mother!’ to do well. She had her Oscar campaign all geared up for it. She was even doing Best Actress roundtable discussions last December. She really hoped that she would get nominated for that role. So are you a little bit sad for her that she didn’t? I’m not. I am, however, sad that she’s not going to be an Oscar presenter.

Photos courtesy of WENN.