The bizarre TV show Jennifer Lawrence is dying to make: “I am clearly obsessed”
“Are you still Keeping Up With The Kardashians?” Robert Pattinson asked Jennifer Lawrence in an interview, and all sense of media training seemed to go out of the window.
Unlike Hollywood stars would typically only ever talk about other people in broad, blasé terms of niceness, Lawrence went in, spilling on her favourite Kardashian sister and happily calling Kourtney “more annoying than ever”.
Anyone also in the same camp will recognise her frantic tone of voice in that Vanity Fair interview. Despite literally being strapped to a lie detector that’s going to scientifically verify her honesty, and despite her status in the celebrity world realistically meaning that she should be a bit more cordial to her fellow famous people, you can hear that none of that registers.
Instead, this is the classic and well-known overflowing excitement of your average reality TV obsessive. You’ll recognise the tone in your friend that’s obsessed with Love Island, or you’ll recognise it in the fast-paced conversation that breaks out in an office every time Traitors is mentioned, and it’s humanising, really, to realise that Lawrence is just like the rest of us. She’s no better than you and your friends, all rotting in front of the TV on a hungover Sunday, devouring the captured lives of strangers instead of living your own. It’s humbling to think of her, and her best friend Emma Stone, lounging in front of the screen, mind blank as they binge The Real Housewives while their Oscars watch on.
Actually, though, the two are taking it even further. When Stone’s favourite figure from The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City was in court in New York, the actor literally left her apartment to go witness the scenes in real life, taking reality TV a step further as she recalled, “I am really invested. When Jen Shah was getting sentenced in New York, my brother and I waited outside for two hours in the freezing cold just for a chance to see her.”
Lawrence is no better as a loyal watcher of the Real Housewives of everywhere from New York to Miami to New Jersey, and between the two of them, surely it’s tough to find bigger fans of the franchise. Despite being one of the most respected actors of our time and a true master of her craft, it seems that Lawrence is truly devoted to reality TV, even claiming she might just give up the rest for it, as she has her own idea for a series she desperately wants to get made.
“I have actually been toying with the idea of becoming a billionaire, and I’d like to start my own TV network,” Lawrence told Vanity Fair. It’s a half-joke, of course, but the idea is very real, as she added, “I am pretty much a television professional at this point. And I have a brilliant idea for a reality show called Breakup Island.”
She’s so serious about the idea that she wouldn’t even share the premise beyond saying, “There are very distinct cast members like The Bachelor, between the ages of 20 and 50, who you stay with and care about”.
It’s not her being coy or annoying, for the star genuinely thinks one day, we’ll get to watch her dream unfold. “That’s all I’m willing to disclose about Breakup Island because I really think it’s going to happen,” she said, adding, “I am clearly obsessed”. So maybe one day, despite all the awards and accolades she’s already got, we’ll finally get to see Lawrence achieve her ultimate fantasy.
