Jennifer Lawrence reveals that her parents did not want her to become an actress.
Jennifer Lawrence is one of the highest paid actresses in Hollywood. But her mother wasn’t so excited about her dream of becoming an actress, the 25-year-old Hunger Games star told the new issue of Glamour.
“I grew up in Kentucky, so nobody was like, You’re gonna be a movie star. There just wasn’t a possibility. And then, when I told my parents when I was 14 that I wanted to move to New York and become an actress, they were like, “Well, no. Obviously,”‘ said Jennifer Lawrence.
But then she saved up her own money to try it out. ‘My mom always says she…wanted me to fail so that I could come home, because not failing meant me being in New York. She lost a daughter, really, at 14. I mean, she’s very proud of me. She got on board when she saw how happy it made me,’ she added.
Nowadays, her mother has a different perspective.
“My mom was really religious with me when I was young. She’s not so much anymore,” said the Silver Linings Playbook star.
Lawrence also discussed how she supports Planned Parenthood.
“And I wouldn’t have been able to get birth control if it weren’t for Planned P. I wouldn’t have been able to get condoms and birth control and all these things I needed as a normal teenager who was growing up in a Jesus house … and now I am a successful woman who has not had a pregnancy.”
Lawrence most recently filmed her new movie Passengers alongside with Chris Pratt in Atlanta, Georgia. Passengers is about a man, played by Chris Pratt, who is among thousands of passengers on a colony ship on an interstellar journey. Awakened early from a cryogenic sleep by a system malfunction, he finally makes the decision to wake another sleeping passenger, to be played by Jennifer Lawrence, to avoid spending decades alone on the ship
