Jennifer Lawrence deems situation in Palestine “mortifying”
Jennifer Lawrence has revealed her thoughts on Palestine at a press conference at the San Sebastian Film Festival.
Attending the festival to screen her new film Die My Love, Lawrence was asked her opinion on the ongoing conflict in the Middle East several times. Despite the moderators’ attempt to curb the political questioning, Lawrence answered towards the end of the conference.
Lawrence finally addressed the questions regarding Palestine, stating, “I’m terrified, and it’s mortifying. What’s happening is no less than a genocide, and it’s unacceptable. I’m terrified for my children, for all of our children.”
Pivoting then to talk about the “disrespect and discourse” that has become status quo for children growing up in the US today. She added, “I mean, the kids who are voting right now at 18, it’s going to be totally normal to them that politics has no integrity. Politicians lie, there is no empathy. And everybody needs to remember that when you ignore what’s happening on one side of the world, it won’t be long until it’s on your side as well.”
Lawrence added her own spin on the media’s obsession with understanding artists’ political stances. She shared, “I wish that there was something I could say, something that I could do to fix this extremely complex and disgraceful situation. It breaks my heart. But the reality is, our fear in speaking too much or answering too many of these questions is that my words will just be used to add more fire and rhetoric to something that is in the hands of our elected officials.”
Concluding her strong statement, she added, “I just want people to stay focused on who is responsible and the things that they can do and when they need to show up and vote, and not let the actors and the artists who are trying to express freedom of art, freedom of speech take the heat for the individuals that are actually responsible.”
In Far Out‘s review of Die My Love, the film was described as “disappointing,” due to an “overarching feeling of incompleteness. It feels as though a great film is hidden in there somewhere, but it just hasn’t been post-production timeline, with the project being announced and then denounced from the Cannes lineup before finally being added last minute. Who knows what happened behind the scenes, but it feels as though the project was rushed and if it had been given a bit more time to breathe, Ramsay’s true genius would have flourished.”
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