The more extravagantly famous you are, the less extravagantly controversial you have to be to get the internet riled and divided over you regardless. So proves Jennifer Lawrence’s laundry list of apparent provocations over the last two weeks, with unseemly acres of tweetage given over to the fact that she a) wore a dress outdoors; b) never finished watching Phantom Thread; and c) briskly rejected Bafta host Joanna Lumley’s claim that Lawrence is “the hottest actress on the planet”.
These were miniature tinderbox fusses, of course, merely priming the outrage machine for the firestorm of d) releasing Red Sparrow, an icy spy thriller fuelled by extreme sexual violence, that would have seemed laboratory-tooled to generate as many seething journalistic hot takes as possible even if it hadn’t been released into the long, freezing winter of #MeToo. Five years ago, she klutzily tripped over her puffy pink princess gown while accepting an Oscar for a peppy indie romcom, and audiences watched with bursting hearts in their eyes. What a long time five years is.
Source : theguardian
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