Posted on 02/24/2018 1:22:07 PM PST by Red Badger
Jennifer Lawrence is a lot of things — Oscar winner, advocate, and Emma Stone’s biggest fan, among others — but one thing she’s not? A high school graduate.
In a preview of Sunday’s episode of 60 Minutes, Lawrence, 27, opens up about her decision to forgo an education in her hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, for a career in Hollywood.
“I struggled through school. I never felt very smart,” says Lawrence, whose new spy thriller Red Sparrow (in theaters March 2) finds her playing a Russian intelligence officer who makes heartbreaking sacrifices at a young age. “And when I’m reading this script, and I feel like I know exactly what it would look like if somebody felt that way. That was a whole part of my brain that I didn’t even know existed — something that I could be confident in, and I didn’t want to let it go.”
“What was it you wanted so much?” asks CBS News correspondent Bill Whitaker.
“It’s hard to explain. It’s just an overwhelming feeling of, ‘I get this. This is what I was meant to do,'” Lawrence says of acting. “And to get people to try to understand that when you’re 14 years old, wanting to drop out of school and do this, and your parents are just like, ‘You’re out of your mind.'”
But her parents listened to Lawrence’s instincts. “I dropped out of middle school. I don’t technically have a GED or a diploma,” she says with a smile. “I am self-educated.”
Whitaker asks if she regrets the decision. “No,” says Lawrence. “I really don’t. I wanted to forge my own path. I found what I wanted to do, and I didn’t want anything getting in the way of it. Even friends, for many years, were not as important to me as my career, I mean, from the age of 14.”
Always outspoken, Lawrence recently slammed disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein for mentioning her name as a defense in his legal battles as he faces the fallout over multiple sexual misconduct allegations leveled against him. “Harvey Weinstein and his company are continuing to do what they have always done which is to take things out of context and use them for their own benefit,” Lawrence said in a statement released Thursday. “This is what predators do, and it must stop.”
And on Wednesday, Lawrence lashed out at critics of her decision to wear a revealing Versace dress while promoting Red Sparrow in London, calling their comments “sexist” and “ridiculous.”
60 Minutes airs Sundays at 7 p.m. ET/PT on CBS. Watch a preview above.
“Her net worth is estimated to be $45-$75 mil.”
For only 5 to 10% of that I will tutor her and make sure she gets her GED and a bachelors degree.
Yeah, she got into the gender equity dispute when she found out she earned significantly less than her male co-stars in American Hustle. Yet it is society's fault for her lack of negotiating skill.
That was a whole part of my brain that I didn’t even know existed.
Go cut grass with Nancy. You all seem to be on the same wave length.
Yes, her parents fault not hers
Since at the time she wasn’t at the age of majority then yes!
Red Sparrow was a great book. I won’t support the movie with Lawrence. The Jack Reacher books are some of the best, but putting a pu$$y in the lead like Tom Cruise and its easier to read the book again.
Wait, wait, i got a question for her.........
Who is not your president?
I HAVE Never seen this person and only heard her name once before......MIDDLE SCHOOL???? geesh.....the Democrats will have her testifying in front of Congress, I’m sure!
Boobs, better than brains.
Why should she. She makes 12 millionplus a movie and a high school degree gets you nowhere. I think she’s smarter then the rest of us who have masters degrees and making 125,000 a year. We are the dumb ones.
Jesus Christ!!!! Are you serious? She’s making more money now the. If she’d finish school. I know you are not that stupid.
You could have done what she did. But you chose not too. Tough crap on your part.
Some of the comments just go to show us that people who learned what they know from public schools are much like bands of monkeys.
Yes-but look at what happens to actresses-with a few exceptions-they have an expiration date where leading lady status is concerned-and if they haven’t made excellent investments they will have to accept lesser roles or find something else to do-not a lot of related professions are open to someone without even a GED. I’m a firm believer in a decent education, no matter who you are-that isn’t “stupid”-and neither am I-there is no need to be rude...
“The important aspect of the high school diploma is the acknowledgment from one dysfunctional system to another that the bearer can be controlled.” — Bob Earll
Like I said, “That’s life”, and it isn’t always “fair.” And while I find it frustrating, I’m not blaming anyone or asking anyone to make it “fair”. Which is what makes it doubly onerous when some empty-headed buffoon like Jennifer Lawrence, who happens to have wealth and fame, thinks it is her right to tell anyone else pretty much anything about what they should think or how they should live.
“the lights are on, but nobody is home.”
indeed. not even enough to make a half-decent actress ...
I don’t think she is all that talented, but she is easy on the eyes, and banks on that.
Someone said they didn’t think she was stupid because she didn’t receive schooling past the eighth grade. I agree.
I think she is stupid because she is an extreme and vocal leftist. That brings her grades way up in the stupid category.
I think she exhibits brilliance in some areas of the vast diversity of intelligences. But she’s chosen to make a few really dumb movies lately.
If ignorance is bliss, then she is in heaven.
Her bank account is not a measure of her intelligence, only a measure of he willingness to sell he soul to the devil..............
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