Why we love Jennifer Lawrence
Much like us, Jennifer Lawrence has never had acting lessons. Unlike us, Jennifer Lawrence has acted in a variety of TV shows and movies, and is a rising star in the industry. Wonder what we're doing wrong. Maybe it's the complete lack of natural talent and the way we look like we fell backwards out of a hedge most days. That might be it.
Jennifer started out acting in church plays in her home of Louisville, Kentucky. She persuaded her parents to take her all the way to glamorous New York to try and get into the world of showbiz, and despite that lack of training, she did pretty well. After graduating from High School early to concentrate on her acting career, her first acting gig was in the tremendously American Bill Engvall Show, about a man named – take a guess, go on - Bill Engvall, and his hi-lariously disfunctional family. The show started in 2007 and was cancelled in 2009, but Jennifer had definitely made her mark.
Since then, Jennifer Lawrence has appeared in Cold Case, Medium, Monk and has taken the lead role in the OScar nominated Winter's Bone, a tremendously grim film about loss, mentally-ill mothers and deadbeat fathers. Lawrence is quite fantastic in it. She leaves you wrestling with duel emotions - on the one hand you want to protect her and keep her safe. But on the other hand, she's kind of scary and seems like she could shoot you in the nuts at any moment.
Most notably, you might have seen Jennifer Lawrence as a young shapeshifting Mystique in X-Men: First Class or alongside British wunderkind Felicity Jones in inter-continental Rom Com Like Crazy. Her biggest role to date, playing the female lead in an adaptation of post-apocalyptic book The Hunger Games, is looking fairly impressive too.
What is The Hunger Games? It's an adaptation of the wildly successful books of the same name, and it's done fairly well too - it made over £155 million in the opening weekend. The story is set in the future, and the world has gone to hell - so to keep people placid, the evil government pick a load of kids from different districts to fight to the death live on telly. It's a scenario that's really not too far away -just take a look at The Biggest Loser. Jennifer Lawrence is the bow-and-arrow weilding heroine who almost definitely survives as she's supposed to be in two more films.
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