Jennifer Lawrence is having second thoughts about whether to continue speaking out against President Trump: ‘I don’t really know if I should’
Jennifer Lawrence is rethinking her approach to discussing her political views.
During an appearance on The New York Times podcast “The Interview,” the “Die My Love” star, who has long been a vocal critic of President Donald Trump, questioned whether he should continue to share his political opinions.
“I don’t really know if I should do it,” Lawrence said on the Nov. 1 episode. “We’ve learned from election after election that celebrities have no influence on who people vote for. So what am I doing? I’m just sharing my opinion on things that only add fuel to the fire that’s tearing our country apart. I mean, we’re so divided.”
The 35-year-old Oscar-winning actress continued that she is “going through a complicated readjustment” and doesn’t want people to avoid her work because they disagree with her politically.
“I don’t want to turn people away from films and art that have the potential to change consciousness and change the world just because they don’t like my political opinions,” she said. “If I can’t say anything that will lead to peace or lower temperatures or some sort of solution, then I just don’t want to be part of the problem. I don’t want to make the problem worse.”
Although he may be less politically vocal in the future, Lawrence said he will continue to express his politics through his work, telling the New York Times, “A lot of my films that come out from my production company express political landscapes, and I feel like I can be useful in that way.”
Lawrence said she grew up in a Republican household and voted for John McCain for president in 2008, before she started identifying as a Democrat. “I’m proud to be a Democrat because I grew up realizing that I was voting against my rights throughout President Obama’s term,” she said in 2020.
In 2015, she told Entertainment Weekly magazine, “If Donald Trump becomes president, it’s the end of the world.”
She supported Joe Biden in the 2020 presidential election, telling V Magazine, “Donald Trump has and will continue to prioritize the safety and well-being of America. He does not represent my values as an American and most importantly as a human being.”
In 2022, the Unique Playbook star criticized people who are “apolitical” in an interview with Vogue magazine. “You live in the United States,” she said at the time. “We have to get political. It’s too tragic. Politics is killing people.”
Ahead of the 2024 presidential election, Lawrence endorsed Democratic candidate Kamala Harris, telling People, “She’s a great candidate and I know she’ll do everything she can to protect reproductive rights.”
On the interview podcast, Lawrence also reflected on why President Trump’s second term “feels different” than his first. “He said what he was going to do,” she said. “We knew what he had been doing for four years. He was very clear. And that’s also what we chose.”
Lawrence is promoting her Oscar-nominated film Die My Love, in which she stars as a young mother opposite Robert Pattinson. The film, which premiered at the Cannes Film Festival, marks Lawrence’s first film role since the 2023 comedy No Hard Feelings. She won praise for her performance and was early Oscar buzz.
