Jennifer Lawrence, like no one’s seen before

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he calculated first forbes Calculating the global grosses of films in which she appeared in 2014, hunger games And X Men: $1.4 billion, more than any other star. he did the math again vultures, New York Magazine entertainment blog, interviewing a group of producers on the relative worth of each actor, calculating approval ratings in addition to receipts, averaging critics’ votes and adding up the number of Oscars, mentions on Twitter and even Appearance in gossip magazines. Needless to say, Jennifer Lawrence is once again a winner in every category.
Kyle Buchanan, who determined the ranking, explains, “Actresses usually polarize audiences, but everyone adores Jennifer Lawrence: we’d all like to have her as a friend.” “He is not only extremely talented, and has been able to handle huge productions with almost minimal acting. There is also a sense of absolute accessibility that he gives thanks to his self-irony, and the fact that he is able to handle situations, such as theft and the dissemination of his photographic nudity on social media. It’s a completely different way of being a celebrity than we’ve seen before.”

With her success, Jennifer is shifting the center of gravity of Hollywood cinema from men to women. Although women have long been the majority (52 percent in the United States) of cinema audiences, they have always been underrepresented on screen (3 out of 4 lead roles go to men). Bonnie Fuller, editor of the online magazine, explains, “What’s changing now is that movies mostly watched by women are systematically turning huge profits, and that’s causing studios to rethink their casting. ” HollywoodLife, “Angelina Jolie was the first to demonstrate that a woman could be an action hero: hers was an isolated case, now the examples have multiplied.” This change marked what Hollywood considers a turning point. It starts from 2008 twilightThe first saga to be a success with female audiences, earning the vast majority of the 3.6 billion collected by the five films in the series: among other things, the producers considered Jennifer for the role of Bella Swan, which later went to Kristen. Stewart is gone. bridesmaids ,bridesmaids), with Melissa McCarthy’s burps and Kristen Wiig and Maya Rudolph’s bathroom runs, was the first all-female comedy that made even teenage boys laugh. Sandra Bullock says that without that film, director Alfonso Cuarón would not have won his battle with the studio for the female lead gravity,
i.e., the first film that inspired a woman to occupy space and Sandra Bullock became one of the highest paid stars in Hollywood (20 million advance plus 15 percent on receipts, for a total of 70 million).

What used to be the exception is now the rule: Three of the biggest hits since the beginning of the year have been attributed to women. or female sexuality fifty shades of grayreturn to classic cinderellaStepmother with Cate Blanchett, and Rebel – Part 2 of the trilogy divergent series — was expanded to four films thanks to the charm of Shailene Woodley. Another one who can afford to be a superhero on screen and a girl like everyone else on the outside (if you don’t count that she only drinks spring water and makes her own toothpaste). None of this would have been possible without Jennifer Lawrence, whose immense power extends to the cachet, despite hacked emails from Sony computers suggesting that American Hustle – Looks can be deceiving They were paid less than their male co-workers. “Misconception”, Says Stephen Galloway, Who’s For hollywood reporter Calculated the earnings of Hollywood stars. “For that part, Jennifer worked three weeks against three months of co-workers. And who says he earned too little for the first hunger games It is not believed that it was unknown when the contract was signed. and now? “Between advance and box office fees, it is estimated that he earns around 50 million per film, which is more than any other man. However, when he offers her an auteur film she willingly gives it up: now, for example, she is filming Pleasure

Director David O. by russell that led him to the oscar Bright Side, A film directed by Steven Spielberg would follow. A blockbuster and a short film: This is the strategy first inaugurated by Tom Cruise.

Her mother, Karen, said that as a child, when Tom Cruise and her favorite other actors passed by on TV, Jennifer would come up to the screen to get a better look. Perhaps she then learned to seduce the people she met, as I once experienced when interviewing her, when she spread her legs on the coffee table in front of her chair, took my tape recorder, placed it on her lap, and Started. I am being mocked for checking that he is recording. A colleague, knowing her tastes, brought her a plate of lasagna for the interview, which she shrugged off as being anti-vegetarian. In interviews, Jennifer talks about growing up tomboys, a bad boy, on that farm near Louisville, Kentucky, the ubiquitous cocktail made from the piece of South American who loves horses, bourbon and the mint julep: his publicists urge him not to drink before interviews, or else he Also lets himself go more than usual. Her two older brothers, Ben and Blaine, with whom she wrestled, already called her “Nitro” because of her explosive character: “She has a great sense of humor, plus she’s very photogenic and isn’t afraid of snakes, Which she really likes a lot », says Patrick Demarchelier, who poses for this cover Vanity Fair She is photographed with a boa constrictor in a remake of the famous photograph of Nastassja Kinski taken by Richard Avedon.

With the same ease with which he allows himself to talk about how much he loves reality TV real housewives of miami or pizza, Jennifer knows how to control herself: while the other actors concentrate before shooting, until the moment of the clapperboard she cracks jokes about her uneven breasts or about her war with rats that have taken over a as the aspiring actress trashed her apartment. Then in an instant he transforms into the unforgettable characters he plays. As Ree, a determined and motherly girl who tries to save her family in the chill of Winter, the little film earned her her first Oscar nomination. or the fragile and self-destructive Tiffany of the Bright Side. “Jennifer is incredible,” says legendary fashion photographer Mario Sorrenti. “She has a sensual and very American allure that appeals to me.” To be precise, she claims to be white trash, “white trash,” or a lower-middle-class white “burini,” a definition that isn’t an insult on your part but rather means that your feet are on the ground, ever. Do not get in over your head, because for that the attention of others is enough. Refusing to stay on the social network, Jennifer Lawrence was the most searched person on Google in 2014. And if you start playing on search engines, you see that his world wants to know everything. How to copy her pixie, short “pixie” haircut. How is it possible that he even knows how to sing and manages to make his hoarse voice reach the audience hanging treeone of the songs from the previous soundtrack hunger games, Who’s Her Boyfriend Now The storyline with Chris Martin, with whom she went out after “deliberately uncoupled” from Gwyneth Paltrow and ended the hiccuping relationship that had hooked her for years with Nicholas Hoult, has come to an end. It seems to be done. If Bradley Cooper were really lucky, he would become in this decade what Brangelina was in the past.

It’s easy to love Jennifer Lawrence, but it’s also easy to forget that she’s only 24 years old. I wonder whether, as she grows up, she will retain that quirky girl from the American South that I met, or whether she will regress over the years, as happened with Sandra Bullock, for example. If she’s lucky enough to escape her fame as Meryl Streep or if a big bad wolf will interrupt her fairy tale. But above all I wonder whether he will really be able, as he has promised many times, to take a long vacation after finishing the last shoot. hunger games and last thing X Men, In a few years he has changed American cinema: I think he deserves it.

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