As a collective planet, we’ve been having a pretty torrid love affair with Jennifer Lawrence for a while now. She’s funny, she’s pretty, she’s really smart and talented, she’s not afraid to look like an idiot… in other words, she’s just a “real girl” and “just like us”, and that’s why everyone (or at least most people) love her. However, like most love affairs, it seems this relationship may be starting to sour just slightly, as she’s received a shit ton of criticism for something that went down in the 2016 Golden Globes press room on Sunday night.
Here’s the deal: JLaw won a Globe for Joy, which is a pretty solid movie based on a true story about the inventor of an awesome mop. That’s the simple version, but it was pretty good — nothing mind-blowing, but it’s Jennifer Lawrence, so obviously she was going to get the award. All was fine and well until she got to the press room after the ceremony, where winners answer lots of question from the reporters gathered there. Lawrence was asked a question by a reporter who was reading from his phone, and she called him out for not giving her eye contact and seeming to be distracted. Very JLaw, right? Except there’s one issue: English wasn’t this reporter’s native language, so he was likely reading from his phone so that he could ask a coherent question.
Jennifer Lawrence calls out a reporter for not looking up from his phone. #GoldenGlobes #backstage https://t.co/anWeQCsIL6
— Variety (@Variety) January 11, 2016
