Jennifer Lawrence Covers The Hollywood Reporter

Jennifer Lawrence is on the cover of The Hollywood Reporter. Jennifer is on the cover as one of the ladies to take part in the magazine’s actress round table. Highlights can be found below.

On who she acts for: “My agent. (Laughter.) If I hadn’t found [acting], I would have never been able to make sense of all of these bizarre things we all had when we were kids. Why, if I think something, do I feel it? Before you’re acting, that just makes you feel crazy. [Once] I convinced my entire bus that we were being held up for ransom because I was reading about it and I was like, “This is real.” I have an outlet, and now I understand what it is, otherwise I would have felt mentally insane. I really act for myself. I really love it. I don’t think there’s a way that you could handle these schedules, all of the actual work that goes into it, if you don’t really, really love it.”

On backlash from her recent gender pay gap remarks: “There’s always a backlash in everything that you do, but it’s not going to stop or change anything. And it’s not only an issue in Hollywood. When you’re asking about roles for men and women, men certainly have a longer shelf life. Men can play the sexy lead for 20 years longer than we can —”

You can check out more from the interview, including quotes from Kate Winslet, and Cate Blanchett, here. Also, The full Actress Roundtable will air on Close Up With The Hollywood Reporter on Sunday, January 10, at 11am on Sundance TV.