Out of seemingly nowhere, here are some photos of Jennifer Lawrence at the Veuve Clicquot Polo Classic over the weekend. This event usually gets some solid B-list guests/attendees, but I was not expecting J-Law to turn up. Incidentally, Jennifer is in Dark Phoenix, the latest X-Men movie. It’s mostly been Sophie Turner, Jessica Chastain, Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy promoting the film, but I guess Jennifer had some contractual promotion for it too. Convenient that she turned up at a polo game then!
Anyway, Jennifer has been enjoying a relatively quiet year off. When she’s in promotional mode, she’s everywhere and she tends to oversaturate the market, mostly because she gives such good interviews and her quotes end up everywhere. But she has been quiet for a year, living in New York and and getting engaged to Cooke Maroney and (apparently) planning her big summer wedding. Page Six ran a very curious “what has she been up to” piece which was, like, weirdly shady about Jennifer, with all of these weird little asides about Harvey Weinstein and more. You can read the full piece here at Page Six. Some highlights:
On Jennifer’s year off: “No one would say that when you’re as big a star as Jennifer that you should take a year off, it’s not that sensible,” one Hollywood insider told The Post. “But she has all of that ‘Hunger Games’ money and she can afford to sit back.”
Her relationship with Cooke Maroney: He’s the director of the Gladstone 64 art gallery on the Upper East Side. The two are set to marry later this year, and sources expect the couple’s families to be very involved. Maroney’s parents, art dealer James Maroney and Suki Fredericks, own Vermont’s Oliver Hill Farm — a popular wedding venue. The couple have been apartment hunting in Manhattan and, according to a source close to Lawrence, will make efforts to stay connected while she is working: “Jen and Cooke have a very happy, trusting relationship. I can see them taking time out to travel together, with Cooke joining Jen on set.”
She’s been working, just not in front of the camera: “Jennifer may not have been acting this year, but she has a ton of producing projects that she’s been working on,” said the close source.
Her next films: According to sources, “Dark Phoenix” will be Lawrence’s final role in the X-Men franchise. But in the coming weeks, she is scheduled to start filming a project in New Orleans with acclaimed theater director Lila Neugebauer, playing a soldier who suffers a traumatic brain injury in Afghanistan. After that, she is slated to star as disgraced Theranos founder Elizabeth Holmes in the movie adaptation of the book “Bad Blood.” “Movies are Jennifer’s priority,” said the close source.
She’s “happy” to put distance between herself and Harvey Weinstein: “Jennifer’s her own woman,” said the Hollywood insider. “Even when she won the Oscar, she never attended Harvey’s annual Oscar parties in the years after she won. And this is where all the A-listers went to ‘kiss the ring.’” In fact, Lawrence didn’t even thank Weinstein during her Academy Awards acceptance speech, though she called the glaring omission a “brain fart” weeks later. “At the GLAAD Awards in 2013, she had to appear on stage to give Bill Clinton an award with Harvey and she couldn’t seem to get away from Harvey quickly enough afterwards,” added the movie insider. “He asked her to join him for drinks and she was like ‘no, I’m good.’ She was clearly distancing herself from him. She always saw Harvey for who he really was.”
Her future plans: Even though she’s returning to movies, friends say Lawrence will continue working in politics. They add that she is looking forward to having kids with Maroney — though not just yet. Said a pal of the star’s: “Jennifer has a big career and the thing about Cooke is that he will help her navigate the stuff in Hollywood that doesn’t really matter.”
What a weird article, right? “The thing about Cooke is that he will help her navigate the stuff in Hollywood that doesn’t really matter…” Jennifer is quite literally the highest A-list actress out there right now – she’s been navigating Hollywood just fine without Cooke or anybody else and she’s always shown the proper perspective of what really “matters” and what doesn’t. “But she has all of that ‘Hunger Games’ money and she can afford to sit back.” That’s so stupidly shady, my God. She’s famous for more than Hunger Games, and she can walk into any studio and get an eight-figure paycheck. She was burned out and she took some time off to get her head straight. It wasn’t about money or what she can “afford” to do. As for the Weinstein stuff – it’s been a year and a half and I can’t believe we’re still treating the women who worked with Weinstein as somehow complicit in his crimes.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Her figure looks amazing that’s all I can say!
She looks so happy.
Something about her face looks different. She looks a little like Renee Zellweger here.
She definitely looks recently filler-ed, or something. Which is depressing, because she’s a year or two younger than me.
I noticed it right away.
I think there’s width taken from around the jaw. There are a bunch of ways you can do it (including non-surgical), but her jaw is distinctly different.
She had her eyes done years ago, JLaw is no stranger to the scalpel. Google pics if you don’t believe.
She is pretty enough but never has been, and never will be, a knockout stunner.
I think she got new veneers.
@kasia I think you’re right – her smile is different
She looks refreshed and healthy.
She does. That’s good to see.
Cannot take anyone seriously who drops out of school in the 8th grade. I don’t care how rich she is or a famous actress , her intellect is stunted from poor educational decisions. Her parents should be ashamed.
And yet she’s dong just fine in life. Go figure. And I’m sure her parents are quite proud of their Academy-Award winning daughter.
I bet you’re a blast at parties.
I get where you are coming from…when a young girl hears Jennifer Lawrence, a rich and successful actress, is a middle school drop out, there is a high chance their take away from that is school is not important, education is optional. Most young kids, specially kids today who see all those “influencers” as role models, don´t realize how rare it is to succeed when you don´t have an education, let alone a high school diploma. Reportedly Jennifer´s dad manages her finances or it at least very involved, she had a handful of very lucrative gigs, THG, X-men, Passengers, a Dior contract, so I doubt she´ll hurt for money anytime soon, it is a shame nobody in her life valued the importance of an education, and that might very well make her more dependent on other people to look out for her. I wonder why Child Protective Services never got involved, I´d like to believe they know if a kid is enrolled in school or not.
I tend to agree with the original comment, although they could have taken a less judgmental tone. I can’t stand it when people in creative fields act like school is beneath them or that people who go to college are sheep who are just doing what they’re expected to do. I mean yes, not every job requires a college degree and you can be successful without one ( and given how expensive it is now you should think long and hard about your decision), but education is also a huge privilege and there is so much value in it beyond just “getting a good job.” I haven’t heard Jennifer encourage anyone to drop out of school or anything, but the fact that she stopped in 8th grade when a lot of child actors who worked more consistently than she did graduated (usually with some combo of home schooling/on-set tutoring) says a lot about her priorities.
@skatz, I think it would be great if she were a big proponent of education. I’m worried for our society that we are not valuing education.
Why does she need to be a “big propenent of education”? Especially considering that she didn’t continue her own? That would be silly and disingenuous of her to do. There are plenty of other celebs that do. From what I understand she does a lot of charity work in other areas. Stop looking to celebs to champion EVERY cause and be EVERYTHING to everyone. If you believe in it then YOU champion it:
Yet she is constantly giving to charities in her hometown, especially for kids, for the arts and for children and adults with intellectual disabilities. Her foundation is raising money and doing good work for a variety of good causes, and she is directly involved. Wouldn’t it be disingenuous for her to be a “big proponent of education” when she chose to leave the conventional education route?
Plenty of actors drop out of regular school but are required to take on-set tutoring. That’s how a lot of them pass high school. I wonder if she did the same? I think it’s the law that anyone employing a child in the film or tv industry must set aside hours per day for the child to be educated. That’s the primary reason so many “high school” actors on CW-type shows are actually in their early 20s; it’s easier and cheaper for the studio.
Intellect does not suffer.
Perhaps her knowledge base is not as wide in typical areas of education but her intellect should not be affected.
@otaku fairy Your comment made no sense. Try again.
She is definitely doing very well, but I think people can short change themselves when they choose to cut their education short. I wonder if she ever did her GED or something, just to have that.
She looks great, and seems very happy. I think it’s smart of her to take some time off now, she’s young and healthy and can enjoy it, and can plan her wedding.
Her “time off” is involuntary. She had so many projects cancelled and job offers have dried up. She is box office poison and behaves like a spoiled child. Now her PR team is paying someone to pretend to be engaged to her so they can improve her image. She is a mean, no-talent hack that deserves all the backlash she is getting.
Caligrace, it’s been a while since I’ve read a comment so extreme on this site. It’s kind of funny, kind of scary!
? Sure. I mean, being married says nothing about a person’s worth or character regardless of gender (especially when they’re rich/powerful). But not everybody realizes this apparently, so some have to go with ‘fake marriage’ angle when it’s one of the ones they have a problem with.
She looks fantastic!!
Very pretty
Her face looks off….
Something about her face in these photos reminds me of the Chucky doll. She looks more toothy and apple-cheeked than I recall.
I just watched American Hustle and was impressed that she held her own with that amazing cast. Great movie, if you’ve never seen it.
I thought she over acted & was the weak link in that movie.
I thought the same thing. she seemed like a college drama kid trying hard to fit in with the rest of them.
but I’ve never been a big fan of her acting and don’t understand the hullabaloo. 🤷
I feel like I need to watch that movie again. I just remember being so incredibly bored when I saw it in the theater.
Same. That movie had serious pacing issues. It just dragged in places.
Her acting was good but baby girl cannot hold an accent for shiz. I cringed every time she slipped out of the LI accent.
Not sure B-list guest attend this, money people from N J, N Y and C T attend this Polo Match.
And don’t forget the endless slew of Instagram bloggers!
She is certainly not to blame for Weinstein’s issues.
But I don’t think she’d have an Oscar if she wasn’t one of Harvey’s Girls. I think the same thing about Alicia V. & Gwyneth P.
I wonder how different the Oscars would’ve been over the last 20 years without Weinstein’s obsession with getting The New Hot Ingenue an Oscar?
I wonder how many other woman would’ve won Oscars, who got bulldozed out of the race by Weinstein, who were talented & deserving but not young & hot?
Your internalized misogyny is on full display. Just stop. And stop calling people ‘Harvey’s Girls.’
Hey Sherlock, nice job completely misunderstanding my comment.
🙄
Oh, I don’t think otaku misunderstood you at all.
Harvey’s Women, please!
@Amarys
JLaw was already an Oscar nominee before SLP and she had another 2 noms after that movie so the Academy and her collegues love her.
If she hadn’t won the Oscar for SLP, she would have won for American Hustle the following year as she had won Golden Globe, BAFTA, NYFCC and NSFC award. If she didn’t win it’s just because she had won the year before and clearly said she didn’t want to win again (in her speech at the Golden Globes).
So you’re OK with how Weinstein casted, produced & nominated actresses for their looks & not for their actual talent?
So you’re OK with him knocking other deserving actresses out of awards races to promote his own Hot New Actress?
So you’re OK with Gwyneth winning the Oscar that year for her mediocre performance over other much.more deserving actresses & you’re OK with how Weinstein influenced that?
So you’re OK with how he’d only cast actresses that he thought “were f*ckable” in roles? (look up George Clooney’s comments on this)
If you’re OK with all of that it looks like your sexist here, right?
@Amarys
Almost every Oscar nom for Amy Adams was for a Weinstein movie so I should think she isn’t talented.
Meryl Streep won her third Oscar with Weinstein.
Kate Winslet, Daniel Day Lewis,Nicole Kidman,Colin Firth, Judi Dench,Christian Bale,Penelope Cruz,Cate Blanchett, Catherine Zeta-Jones are some of the actors who won their Oscar with a Weinstein movie. Are they not talented?
@Mark:
Yes, some of the actors you mentioned are not talented & are overrated & get nominated for just showing up.
Amaryis, Stephanie pointed out that JLaw was nominated before she even started working with Weinstein…and in response you set up a straw man argument and call STEPHANIE sexist???? Are you kidding me?
Uh, Alicia Vikander won an Oscar for “The Danish Girl” – which was not a Weinstein film, it was put out by a competing studio.
The Weinstein Company was (fiercely, as usual) promoting their own films/actors, including Jennifer Jason Leigh for her role in The Hateful Eight, who was competing against Vikander for Best Supporting Actress that year.
I wonder how many women will continued to be smeared and have snide insinuations made about them, no matter how far-fetched and conspiratorial, under the guise of feminism.
It’s funny – Weinstein clearly enjoyed telling people that he’d had sex with pretty much every actress in Hollywood. He wanted people to think that was true. As comments like yours indicate, he got what he wanted.
@Dina:
Where did I say that any of those actresses slept with Weinstein?
I don’t believe for a second that Jennifer would’ve done something like that.
And Gwyneth shared her horrible story of Weinstein, bravely, which helped other actresses feel comfortable sharing their stories.
All of you who are defending actors & actresses who’ve worked with Weinstein (and still would if he hadn’t been exposed due to his ability to influence the Oscars) are blind as hellllll.
Amaryis – I suppose you have the same high opinion of Uma Thurman – sadly it is a career requirement for these A List roles.
Come on she was really good in silver linings playbook (nice to see a role with comedic elements get recognized) and the other nominees from that year were pretty meh. Like you can’t just saw something like that without examples of more deserving older women? (Additionally I don’t like this idea that we have to give Oscars to the actor who’s “career” warrants it rather than the performance.)
You are a gross misogynist. Weinstein had nothing to do with The Danish Girl, the movie for which Alicia Vikander was nominated for and won.
Not involved in the movie in itself, but he was very much her fan…
Calling her a “Harvey’s girl” has implications, and isn’t cool. She was pretty well established as an Oscar nominee with Winter’s Bone, and her competition during SLP wasn’t really super strong.
Also, SLP had nominations in all 4 acting categories. But no one ever accuses Bradley Cooper or Deniro of being one of “Harvey’s boys” to get their nomination.
Great points.
Her first Oscar nomination was for a female-directed low budget indie, and she’d never even met Weinstein then.
Low key engagement? Maybe in the US.
She & Maroney are papped almost exclusively in the Daily Fail, by the same agency, every other week.
And after her last movie misfires, I’m not sure JLaw can walk in and command figures still.👀
Eh, there are plenty of celebs in NYC who are papped multiple days of the week just walking around, and you either never see those pictures anywhere but fan sites or DM. It’s just because those specific agencies or photographers know certain streets and areas that get lots of traffic and the areas most celebs live in (east village, soho, etc). NYC is actually quite small in those areas.
The dress is hideous and the fit is garbage
DS9, I challenge you to tell me where that dress not fitting in terms of tailoring and execution.
Maybe it s not your cup of tea style-wise but it s not a reason to exaggerate.
But it s not the first time I see you overblow things and mix apple and oranges to suit your views.
I mean… look at the puckering and pulling on the bodice. At the very least it’s a fabric issue, of not a tailoring issue. I’ve had dresses from F21 that lay more smoothly over my curves and were just as fitted.
If you prefer a lycra, stretchy fabric that just wraps the body without a crease in sight, fine. I love these fabrics too and how they fit the silhouette like a glove.
But no point berating an apple because it s not an orange.
For a very light, non-stretchy cotton (poplin?) summer dress, it s very well-executed.
Interesting the pivot from “I didn’t know anything about Harvey and he was never untoward with me” to all of this keeping him at arm’s length and seeing him for who he was. I also find it interesting that we’re not ok with blaming actresses for working with him, but we are okay for Woody Allen. I’m assuming it’s a before/after the information was out there, but from the quotes above it seems to (more than) insinuate that she knew about him?
Obviously it means even though he didn’t abuse her, and she didn’t know his bad behavior went up to sex crimes, she found something off and unpleasant about him as a person. Even with people who didn’t know how bad he was, Weinstein had a not so stellar reputation. He was known as a jerk and probable philanderer.
Women shouldn’t be blamed for Harvey Weinstein’s behavior or Woody Allen’s behavior. But there are two big differences with both situations. With Woody Allen, some of those actresses made some very dismissive comments about Dylan Farrow’s abuse, Also, for many years Weinstein’s behavior was just portrayed as any and every famous person with a vagina prostituting herself to him. It’s easy to see why an actress may be mistrustful of those rumors.
“She always saw Harvey for who he really was.”
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. I know whatever source gave these quotes thinks it’s good for her but…f**k I certainly hope she didn’t “always see him for what he REALLY was”. That just makes her sound horrendously complicit. Sloppy PR from her camp, that’s not usual.
She sleepwalked through the last XMen movie, so I assume her short appearance in this movie was a favour with little promotional commitment.
Her PR team is terrible. Terrible.
I actually really believed she disappeared to stop the gossip surrounding her and Weinstein. But am curious to see how her career will go now that he has lost his hold over Hollywood. He seemed to have been her biggest champions.
In most of her movies she seemed miscast to me. But I remember watching her in Law and Order and thought she could act. I hope she chooses better roles.
She was great in Winter’s Bone and Mother (that movie is around 70% closeups of her face, and she didn’t tire me). But yeah, I don’t think she’s had that many great roles besides that. Her win for SLP was so random.
@Cindy:
Be careful, you’re supposed to think SLP was OmgSoAmazing deserved all of the awards & ignore Weinstein & David Ogre Russell made it.
Winter’s Bone was truly a fine film!
The only movies that fit her age range at the time were Winter’s Bone (she was great in that), Hunger Games, and the X-Men movies. All the other roles should have gone to older actresses.
Definitely!
She’s stunning. I saw some pics of her and Michael B. Jordan and I want a movie with them as a ccouple now.
On a purely superficial note, I am in love with that dress she’s wearing and would wear the hell out of it all summer (though I think I’d like it in pastel blue or mint green a bit better).
I think it’s really pretty, too. I’m a sucker for those tiny fabric-covered buttons as an accent, and the fabric on the skirt part is lovely.
She looks like a barbie. Gorgeous!
That is a really, really awful dress.
People as young as JLaw do not need to do anything weird to their faces! Wtf. Is she even 30?! Theres a weird rubbery thing going on with her face.
What happened to her face? There’s something really off about her jaw….
She looks great–so happy! I don’t like the dress, but then I rarely like what she wears on the job.
Page 6 stories always read strange and shady to me. They did one last week (I think, maybe 2 weeks ago?) about OJ Simpson’s alleged affair with Kris Jenner that was basically just a stupid ode to OJ’s penis.
Page Six is amongst the worst.
That article is riDICKulous lol. What pompous asshat is being quoted? I’m embarrassed for all involved lol.
What is going on with her shoes? Looks like she missed a strap or something. Other than that, I think she looks lovely
New face? 🧐
“it’s been a year and a half and I can’t believe we’re still treating the women who worked with Weinstein as somehow complicit in his crimes” and yet, you talk about cancel people or punish actors for taking roles with such and such director. 🤷🏻♂️
Because the Weinstein women were VICTIMS and Woody Allen and his ilk were the perpetrators elsewhere. How is this so hard to understand?!
In Woody Allen’s case, one of his victims (his own daughter) came forward and actresses and actors were still like “That’s tabloid fodder”, “We all get lied on in the media”, or “This is like ‘To Kill a Mockingbird.’ ”
With Harvey Weinstein, it was often very ‘Rumor has it this guy is a cheating old Hollywood John and every pubescent+ actress and her mother is trading sex for roles with these married men. It’s the only way females have success outside of the kitchen.’ It’s understandable why some people would get used to that after a while and conclude “Oh look, another trashy smear campaign. Whatever,” rather than “Damn. This producer is a rapist”, especially if they don’t have experience with abusers.