Is America’s love affair with Jennifer Lawrence closing in on its end? The oft-awarded actress is just 25-years-old, but it would seem that the fact that she appears to be everywhere we turn these days is starting to wear thin on some people.
Of course that wasn’t helped on Sunday night when Lawrence, who won the Best Actress Golden Globe Award, snapped (many would say rudely) at a reporter who appeared to be reading questions to her from off of his phone.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dKubY7Tjwc0
In case you can’t watch that, here’s the gist…
“You can’t just live your life behind your phone, bro. You can’t do that, you’ve gotta live in the now,” Lawrence scolded the reporter holding the phone.
“Sorry, sorry,” replied the reporter.
“We’re at the Golden Globes,” replied Lawrence. “If you put your phone down you’d know that [the answer to his question].”
Many pointed out, accurately in my opinion, that English didn’t seem to be the reporter’s first language and that was perhaps why he was reading his question off of his phone. That, mixed with J-Law’s terse response, didn’t sit well with a WHOLE BUNCH of people on social media.
https://twitter.com/wengering/status/686585681104232448
https://twitter.com/RomanPerdz/status/686585018752315392
https://twitter.com/empxthysim/status/686584439892226048
https://twitter.com/manarbee/status/686584422456537088
I wish we left Jennifer Lawrence in 2015
— jess 🔜 c2e2 ✨ (@jeluto_) January 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/MAleeSrk/status/686583351445159936
https://twitter.com/RanShibukis/status/686580428489162752
"you gotta get off your phone and live in the now" -jennifer lawrence solving the problems of everyone trying to learn new languages
— fuck the police 🍉 (@_gumshudaa) January 11, 2016
Jennifer Lawrence criticising a guy for living life behind a screen seems dumb for someone who's just won an award for being in a movie
— Felicity Morse (@FelicityMorse) January 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/uyentngo/status/686468816759459841
https://twitter.com/commanderlexa_/status/686463958631473152
Jennifer Lawrence is a piece of work. She gets to be rude time after time and y'all still praise her. 🙄. #overit
— the maple leafs make me hot & bothered, becca. (@becccaaaaaaw) January 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/tributesnoww/status/686548888002674688
https://twitter.com/sarahvigurs/status/686548561530585088
I love Jennifer Lawrence but her stock fell with that mean-spirited treatment of a foreign journo. She's smelling herself. #GoldenGlobes
— Jamey_Giddens (@Jamey_Giddens) January 11, 2016
let's be real.. jennifer lawrence did not "misunderstand" the reporter's question, she just didn't care enough to try and understand him
— j 🪐 (@heyahhjayuhh) January 11, 2016
Jennifer Lawrence wants to be America's sweetie with the tumbling and shit on stage. Her disrespect of a foreign reporter was classless.
— Kimmie Tee (@ReallyKimmieTee) January 11, 2016
https://twitter.com/SMichelle1978/status/686403967375544325
I like Jennifer Lawrence, but she can't be mad at a reporter for being on his phone at an important event when…. pic.twitter.com/LJWzqdeEsk
— Norman D. Golden ll (@NormanGoldenll) January 11, 2016
And that was just the tip of the torches and pitchforks brought out on Twitter.
So is the love affair officially over?