Jennifer Lawrence is rethinking her approach to discussing her political views.
While speaking on The New York Times’ “The Interview” podcast, the “Die My Love” star, who has been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump for years, questioned whether she should continue to share her political opinions going forward.
“I don’t really know if I should,” Lawrence said on the Nov. 1 episode. “We’ve learned election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for. And so then what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on something that’s going to just add fuel to a fire that’s ripping the country apart. I mean, we are so divided.”
The Oscar-winning star, 35, went on to say she is “in a complicated recalibration” and doesn’t want people to avoid her work because they disagree with her politically.
“I don’t want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don’t like my political opinions,” she said. “If I can’t say something that’s going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature, or some sort of solution, I just don’t want to be a part of the problem. I don’t want to make the problem worse.”
While she may be less politically outspoken in the future, Lawrence noted she will continue expressing her politics through her work, telling the NYT, “A lot of my movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape. That’s how I feel like I can be helpful.”
Lawrence grew up in a Republican family and has said she voted for John McCain for president in 2008 before she began to identify as a Democrat. “Through Obama’s presidency, and growing up to realize I was voting against my own rights, I am proud to say I am a Democrat,” she said in 2020.
In 2015, she told Entertainment Weekly, “If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the world.”
She supported Joe Biden for president in 2020 and told V Magazine, “Donald Trump has and will continue to put himself before the safety and well-being of America. He does not represent my values as an American, and most importantly as a human being.”
In 2022, the “Silver Linings Playbook” star criticized people who “aren’t political” while speaking to Vogue. “You live in the United States of America,” she said at the time. “You have to be political. It’s too dire. Politics are killing people.”
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Lawrence endorsed Democratic nominee Kamala Harris, telling People, “She’s an amazing candidate and I know that she will do whatever she can to protect reproductive rights.”
On the “Interview” podcast, Lawrence also reflected on why Trump’s second term “feels different” from his first. “He said what he was going to do,” she said. “We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear. And that’s what we chose, again.”
Lawrence is promoting her Oscar hopeful “Die My Love,” in which she stars as a young mother opposite Robert Pattinson. The film, which premiered at Cannes Film Festival, marks the first movie role for Lawrence since her 2023 comedy “No Hard Feelings.” She has earned acclaim, and early Oscar buzz, for the performance.
