I don’t know of another star with this big a profile who is constantly saying, rightly, that their publicist has to constantly be holding their head in their hands at the things their client says on a daily basis. Why can Jennifer Lawrence get away with it? Part of it is that the things she says aren’t that bad. So she had a shot before answering questions from the press at the Oscars. Who wouldn’t? She talks about peeing herself and saying inappropriate things to famous people she meets. Nobody’s hurt by this.
There’s just something refreshing about people who are this candid. One of the great appeals of podcasts like WTF with Marc Maron or Nerdist is that you get a chance to listen to people who typically are carefully thinking through things they say in order to avoid scandal just being themselves for an hour. I think people are getting sick of the obvious falseness with which most public figures currently continue to conduct themselves.
If you want to understand the different in perceptions between someone like Jennifer Lawrence and someone like Anne Hathaway, this is it. J-Law just seems like she couldn’t care less what people think of her. She’s just going to be herself. And she probably hasn’t even put that much thought into it. Or at least that’s the air she gives off. It’s impossible not to love someone that honest and open, especially in an environment that normally breeds absolute artifice.