Jennifer Lawrence: Unapologetically Herself

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It took Jennifer Lawrence years to feel comfortable in her own skin. But what scandal left Jennifer broken? And How did Emma Stone help pick up the pieces?

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00:00A female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much

00:10thinner than me.

00:11And we all stood side-by-side with only pastons covering our privates.

00:16After that degrading and humiliating line-up, the female producer told me I should use the

00:23naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet.

00:28The one girl before me had already been fired for not losing enough weight fast enough.

00:50And all the other models were like playing football like in a pretty way, you know, like

00:55and not me.

00:57I was all over the photos, I've got a red face covered in sweat, my nostrils are flared.

01:08I remember that really kind of breaking my heart because it's hard to hear that you

01:12need to lose weight when you don't think that you're fat.

01:20I'm just watching like my double chin and my acne.

01:24I know, who is that bitch?

01:28Right, Jennifer Aniston is way better than Jennifer Lawrence, do you agree?

01:32Yeah, much better.

01:34Prettier, funnier.

01:36Yeah, better movies.

01:38Yeah, yeah.

01:41Because I feel like everybody hates me.

01:50I volunteer as tribute.

01:54And this is going to be their hero and we have control of that.

02:04We have the ability to control this image that young girls are going to be seeing.

02:08If girls see enough of this body that we can't imitate, that we'll never be able to obtain

02:15these unrealistic expectations.

02:17I was not going to have young girls skipping dinner because they wanted to look like Katniss.

02:24I showed Diane how to shoot archery today.

02:28And let's just say she nailed it.

02:30You have to know who you are and you have to know your worth and you have to know what's

02:33worth, what's worth it and what isn't.

02:35You know, I mean, if you're doing a physical role, I mean, when I was doing The Hunger Games,

02:38I did a lot of training.

02:39It was a really physical role and I had to be in good shape.

02:42There's a difference between getting in shape for a movie and being mentally abused and

02:47told that you're fat.

02:49I want to be the kind of person who will say that thing that's really hard to say.

02:52You know, they put values in all the things that are wrong and that it's okay to just

02:55point at people and call them ugly and call them fat and they call it fun and welcome

02:59to the real world.

03:00And it's like, that shouldn't be the real world.

03:05A hacker puts Jennifer Lopez on the internet.

03:08A hacker puts Jennifer Lopez on the internet.

03:10A hacker puts Jennifer Lopez on the internet.

03:12A hacker puts Jennifer Lopez on the internet.

03:15A hacker puts Jennifer Lawrence's naked photos online.

03:20Photos purporting to show a nude Jennifer Lawrence are making their way around the internet.

03:29It was so unbelievably violating that you can't even put into words.

03:45If I'm feeling this way in Hollywood, I can't imagine how many women across the world must

04:03be feeling that.

04:04Why don't we?

04:08It's a huge conversation for our industry certainly, but I would hope that this is only

04:12the tipping point for every industry for us to discuss equal pay for equal work for women.

04:17I decided to speak out because it was unfair and, you know, I was speaking of my experience

04:23because that's the only thing I can speak of is my job and my experience and my paycheck,

04:28you know, but there's a 21% pay difference between men and women in all sorts of fields

04:34in America.

04:40Cheers, honey.

04:41Cheers.

04:42You get me.

04:46I did feel powerless before and I left feeling empowered.

04:58I was like, I could get a salad and he said, well, if you can't get a salad, get a salad.

05:02And I said, I'm getting a Philly cheesesteak.

05:04So we had to start creating a movement.

05:07You know, we have to reshape the way that we're, that we're treated.

05:10Things that were normalized before are no longer going to be normalized.

05:25She said, I love my body because I'm, I'm the girl on fire and it made her feel strong

05:32and brave.

05:33And I just started crying because it was, she, she gave me such a gift and I'm just

05:39acting, but it made me feel like if a character or a story can make somebody change their

05:46perception on how they feel about themselves, then that is beautiful.

06:03Yeah.

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