A Tale of Two Jennifer Lawrences 

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I don’t get why anyone received ‘it came true’ as cringe Anne Hathaway works so hard and is so talented and tons of actors dream for years…that’s just ridiculous of the public …Anne deserves the hype

"some actors avoid this... by being men". This is such good writing, i genuinely smiled from delight.

Anne Hathaway getting her Oscar wasn’t cringe at all. The fact that she was cool about her win was actually inspiring and lovely.

I've noticed that people are inclined to merge an actress's roles with her real life. It's as if there is no delineation or separation between a character an actress portrays and who she is. Anna Gunn got trolled viciously for playing Skylar White in "Breaking Bad"; it quickly became personal and she ended up taking out an ad in the NYT to defend herself. Amazing. Yet her onscreen husband, playing a murderous drug dealer is lauded for his portrayal and people can easily separate the two. I'd love The Take to examine THAT phenomenon.

I can't recall any actors' personal lives being so dissected as are actresses'. I loved Lawrence in 'Winter's Bone', and in many other films since, and frankly; I don't care what she's 'really like'. When I watch a film, I'm not looking for my next 'best friend' - I'm hoping for a well-written, well-acted story.

Thank god for Gillian Flynn for writing the “cool girl” speech in gone girl, I think if she hadn’t put it in words the “I’m not a girls girl, I’m one of the boys” bullshit probably would have never stopped

New drinking game: take a shot every time this channel quotes the Cool Girl monologue or movie. (Loved the video!)

The one thing that people forget when it came to Jennifer Lawerence's trip at the Oscars is that Hugh Jackman immediately came to help her. But she got up before he could. That proves one thing to me: Hugh Jackman has always been a good sport!

Professionally, she is a talented actress who focuses more on dramatic roles & personally, doesn't take herself too seriously. Why can't she be both? Or lots more? Why is it always either-or? As if only 1 thing encapsulates who we are as individuals. Also, it seems like men get the luxury of not having to have their lives dissected, as if their gender alone grants them the ability to freely exist. But women don't get to be complex, they have to be compartmentalized into tropes because God forbid society allow them to be viewed as human.

Regarding Kristen Stewart, I remember her getting flack for her persona as well. You know, questioning why she doesn't smile in photos, for instance.

It never sat right with me, that she was being hated for "trying to hard to be cool", when most of us are trying the same, just less publicly. I don't care how much of her fun interviews is just a perfomance, it's always entertaining and trying a little bit too hard to be cool is very relatable, at least for me.

"some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men" I died laughing because that is the ultimate truth. You never see the media pitting men against each other as cringe or cool.

I just want women to be seen as human in media lens. I am so over "tropes" that overwhelming are tacked on to women only. Every women is a 3D. She isn't a one line brief, she isn't a trope, she shouldn't forever has to chase the "ideal" Mirage.

Simple: she just grew up. She was a young star that wanted attention and had the thirst to prove herself. Now she is an industry veteran that doesn't need to prove anything to anyone.

This persona thing happens with normal people too, though on a much smaller scale. For eg, I have a detrimental sense of humour which I am very much aware of. However, instead of laughing with me, people laughed at me. To them, I came out as a funny girl. To stop this, I became overtly serious. It didn't help cause now, I come off as the bitch who hates everyone. There's no winning against society.

"Jennifer Lawrence is very diferent from the audiences than onscreen" yeah...thats called acting.

Pointless Essay Time: My theory is that the goofy, endearingly messy girl that Lawrence presented as initially WAS the real her, but that after a while she began unconsciously playing it up. It's a pretty natural thing that people can wind up doing when they get positive feedback on a behavior. People seemed to love it when JLaw acted silly, so she probably started leaning into that persona without really realizing she was doing it. But anytime someone gets popular, there's always going to be a backlash. Especially when it's women. People who were sick of JLaw became more vocal, and around that time her nudes were leaked and she was openly not happy about it which further contributed to the backlash. It didn't help that due to her popularity she was getting put into movies and roles that she might not have been well suited for, which can = overexposure which also adds to the backlash. I think in recent years she seems to have become more reclusive, probably in reaction to the blowback she dealt with.

It's interesting how someone like Emilia Clarke is generally well-liked and isn't accused of being fake despite her similarities to Jennifer Lawrence.

12:02 “Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men” Wow, the Take out here, keeping it 💯. Bravo!

I always liked Jennifer Lawrence in interviews and I kind of hate the 'she must be faking it' attitude some people have towards her and any younger normal seeming celeb. Personally I didn't feel like she was trying to be anything but herself even if it may have been a little exaggerated. It's almost as if she's not allowed to be a 3 dimensional person with messy bits or the ability to change or mature with time.

Just another instance of how female personality must be affected rather than genuine. There is something deeply misogynistic about the way we deconstruct the public personas of women. All public figures have them, but only women are accused of being fake. Actually, it happens to all of us. I feel like I can't do anything without being a trope these days.

A lot of times leaning into the casual, cool-girl image is a way of coping with anxiety. I speak from experience. Not saying that’s what’s going on with JL, but just wanted to point that out.

great actress, great pr, none of my business who she 'really' is. that's her business. she has to live with herself

Why can't someone be all these things all at the same time? Serious, chill, mature, silly, funny, honest, endearing, "cool girl", deep, clumsy, and crazy? Why does it have to be judged and be seen as a negative thing? Isn't it a good thing for someone to be one way, often times the opposite, on screen than in person? Doesn't that show talent?

What I find interesting is that her and Taylor Swift went through similar arcs at the same time due to random events: J Law (falling on stairs) and Swift (Kanye interruption.) Their PR teams jumped to turn them into relatables that may have went against their true natures. The same may be happening to Olivia Rodrigo but time will tell if it works. I think there is an unwinnable Catch 22 with being a celebrity today and we all collectively lose a little something in the end.

Imagine working so hard on your career,making sacrifices and achieving a certain level where you get recognized and awarded for your contribution. I would die crying I mean. Why would getting emotional or saying something heartfelt like "it came true" be cringe worthy. Istg we are so detached from reality sometimes.

She is just very good at marketing herself.

We all go through a time where we're not who we actually are, because society makes us feel like we have to

I just remember a lot of people turned on her when she wrote a open letter saying we should "give Trump a chance" only a few weeks after the 2016 election when everyone was still raw. People were pretty upset that the girl who played Katniss was essentially supporting "Capital Leaders" I just remember a ton of her fan base fell off a cliff when she said that

Ariana Grande does a great impression of Jennifer Lawrence. I never saw that skit.

I always thought criticisms of her in the media were too harsh. She seems like a genuinely cool, funny person, even if she occasionally hams it up. She was very saturated around 2013 and I think people tend to criticize anyone who's that ubiquitous. I'm always rooting for her!

In Hindi Cinema, there is an actress called Anushka Sharma. I feel like this video applies to her too, with a few differences.

12:01 "some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men, who are generally less scrutinized in these sorts of interactions than women" *chef's kiss* god, I LOVE this channel

"Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men--" Oooop.

I feel like the male equivalent of Jennifer Lawrence's situation, meaning a celebrity who was once well-liked and seen as a lovable goofball but then got on everyone's nerves, is Chris Pratt. I would like to see an analysis on him.

reminds me of Hoyeon from Squid Game and Stephanie Beatriz from Brooklyn 99-- known for their tough, dark characters but off-screen they're very bubbly. On some level, we're all putting on a bit of a performance when we socialize or interact with the public but that doesn't mean it's fake or not really us. it's just a facet of us we show. And it doesn't have to be a conscious or calculated choice either. JLaw isn't a robot.

I don't know why people are forgetting that these folks have publists and a team of people behind that persona. You never really know what's real and what's calculated.

"Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men." Iconic behaviour, and so accurate.

Seriously, your channel is one of my all time favorite channels. JL's character in Don't Look Up is my favorite. She was fantastic 😊😌

"Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men." 💀

I’m kind of over dissecting women’s personalities like this. I don’t see anyone putting out essays on whether Ryan Reynolds or Chris Pratt’s good guy reps are fake. We always complain that Hollywood is too fake and there aren’t actors that seem attainable and relatable. Then when one comes along we rip her apart and say she’s a phony. Yes, the “not like other girls” phenomenon is problematic. But I don’t think I’ve ever seen Jennifer herself position her personality and behavior as better or ~cooler~ than other women. Others do that FOR her. I think we should just let the woman be herself and stop being so concerned if it’s fake or not.

I do think that the majority of this is on point. However, just one thing needs to be said. And that's that women should be allowed to be as expressively vulgar as any male celebrity in the public eye and not be always be seen as performative. I will agree that many times she can seem like she's playing an act. But the flip side is she could just genuinely be someone who barely has a filter. I think both can be true and that should be acknowledged

Is it coincidence this video gets uploaded after I just rewatched silver linings playbook last night and realized just how great of an actor and absolutely gorgeous this woman is?

Is this video seriously speculating whether someone's acting performances in scripted fiction is more a true reflection of their real self 🙄 ?

She is literally the film star version of broadway actress Sierra Boggess who is SO DIFFERENT To the roles she plays, she plays roles like Christine in Phantom, Ariel in the little mermaid, Lily in the secret garden and Cosette in Les MIs, all sweet, introspective sensitive ingenues and yet irl she is super giggly and silly and performatively quirky like JLaw.

The hyperfocused on actresses or just female artists on public spaces is, im so sick of them

The cool girl video is my favorite in this channel. Really eye opening, so I love how you guys refer to it every now and then

I think that Jennifer's persona was a form of self-defense given how intensely vulnerable she probably felt under the spotlight like that. It seems the "cool girl" mask gave her some breathing room in quite frankly suffocating expectations that come with being a rich and famous icon (boo hoo, I know) and yet she is also a human who like everyone else does not want to be humiliated publicly. A persona of self-deprecation and humiliating herself was a way to take that power into her own hands and clearly it worked -- because now she can retire that and she kind of made it out of that phase relatively scott-free. In the end, I think her experience is actually deeply relatable to "ordinary" girls like me who have struggled with using a "cool girl" persona that makes fun of yourself for attention as a way to avoid being bullied or cast into invisible insignificance before being able to shed that and come into a more authentic and confident place. Also -- does anyone notice how weird it is that we celebrate Goddess archetypes in movies / acting but even a woman who can play those roles in movies cannot avoid the shackles of social conditioning on our Goddess energy / nature in real life. It just shows how much evolving we still have to do as women and the frontiers of growth still available to us

I didn't watch Winter's bone, but i think Mother! is her best performance by far, tho it's not a good movie. I still think Silver lining playbooks is just a ok movie. What start to bother me about Jennifer Lawrence is that she started being nomitated for EVERY SINGLE movie she did, and now is Saoirse Ronan

They act like talk shows are her real life. That’s essentially her office where she is to a degree centered and profession in context. Every person does this too. I’m going to act one way say meeting a new parters parents for the first time than hanging out with my own. Or censoring your personal life at a work lunch.

I used to go in search of Jennifer Lawrence interviews 'cause I just think she's so funny and so easy to listen to. I love her stories and her nonchalant approach to the media. It's refreshing and I'll never get sick of it. When I watched that one press interview she did for Don't Look Up I kinda felt a bit sad like she was holding back or trying to give "I'm mature now, I'm pregnant". I hate when we make other people feel like they should change who they are because they're no longer fitting our fantasy of who we want them to be.

I thinks she is a person with flaws, hopes, dreams, and everything in between.

You know the video is going to be good when The Take sites once again the Cool Girl Monologue

I love the commitment to use the cool girl monologue in as many videos as possible! (There is no drop of sarcasm in this, I truly love it!!!! Such a good monologue!)

My favourite Jennifer Lawrence Moment is when she met Jack Nicholson and I thought that whole interaction was so funny 😂

I will not stand for the Anne Hathaway slander. Leave our unproblematic queen aloooone

I think it would be good to see a video on the role that the media - and especially tabloids - play in setting up famous women only to drag them down again. So many of us cannot explain why but might also subconsciously dislike people like Anne Hathaway, J-Law, Kiera Knightley, Meghan Markle, Taylor Swift, etc., and that is largely due to the way they get treated and slandered by the press for clickbait.

Jennifer gets a lot of hate for her persona but I feel we all forget she was in her early 20s when she blew up... I can only imagine how hard it is to deal with that level of fame and navigating her "persona". It looks like now she's more comfortable being herself without having to perform being the funny cool girl which is cool :) very excited for the new movies she has coming because she's always been talented 💫

I have never known a truly authentic actor. The keyword here is actor.

If you think about it it's kinda misogyny and digusting the way jlaw gets crucify for being herself but Robert Pattinson, Tom Holland, Ryan Reynolds and many other male celebrities do the same but unlike jlaw the public celebrate them. It's like men are allowed to be "quirky" , "fun" , "goofy" and "edgy" but the moment a woman do the same "she's a pick me girl", "she's trying too hard", "she's fake", " she's annoying". you just love to see the double standard.

Its like AMADEUS where Salieri can't believe this goofball Mozart who makes fart jokes and sex jokes in public is also the same person who can compose such magnificent pieces of music.

great vid !!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I’ve been waiting for thissss 🧡🧡 I love the “I’m not like other girls” video. I actually hated “cool girl” until you logically explained it to be a coping mechanism.

I hope the take realises that actors playing characters in movie isn’t reflective of their real life personality. That’s why it’s called acting! Like wtf is not clicking?!

If the Cool Girl monologue is not mentioned in a The Take video, is it really a The Take video?

Why nobody talks about Mother!.?

Her public persona grates me beyond belief 😆

On a serious note, youtube chanels can do whatever content they like, there is nothing wrong with analizing celebrities. But a channel that the take that goes out of their way to analyse fictional tropes and how they dehumanize characters...only to proceed to dehumanize real human beings with said tropes . You can analize fictional characters by the media they apear in because thats all you can see of them. But with real people you can never know, so it doesn't really feel right when they made videos like this.

I think Lawrence's offscreen persona became unpopular because she did too much of the "not-like-other-girls" thing.

This just shows how great of an actor she is

Anne and Jen both are queens! ✨✨

❤ how they say "we lo0ooOve movies" in front of a big book shelf. 😆

I never realized how the media persecutes even actresses off screen persona. Like damn. Kristen Stewart for being emotionless, Anne Hathaway for being too sweet, and Jennifer Lawrence for the cool girl thing. Other women for being too political or feminist, others for not being political enough, others for taking themselves too serious, others for shitting on hollywood elitism. Like it seems it just doesn't matter the personality, society just enjoys shitting on women. Like wtf.

I like the video, but there are other ways to examine the 'cool girl' trope without just playing the exact same clip from Gone Girl every video. It is starting to become the new 'Manic Pixie Dream Girl' and is becoming very overused.

No matter what you can't please the media, so what she acts goofy on interviews and jokes around, it shows she's talented enough that when the cameras are on she can hide that away and perform and that is called for respect other than bashing hate. Everyone has there own persona and the media like the paint everyone as flat two dimensional, forgetting the people they write about are complex human beings.

Of course it's all an act - we have an idea of how we want to project ourselves publicly, and conduct ourselves accordingly, through dress, hair, makeup, and mannerisms. We act differently from how we are when we're on our own, or away from the public eye. I'm not sure what this annoyance is at JLaw or Anne Hathaway or Amy Schumer or any woman for that matter, presenting themselves in a way that makes them feel relaxed and less camera prepped by their agents and media reps. We left an age of the early 00's where women were expected to represent female empowerment (politically, socially, sexually, and financially), but that were still expected to perform certain ways in press releases or on late night circuits to uphold gendered stereotypes of the Madonna and the Magdalene. If you were a "good girl" you presented yourself as such - well-spoken, dresses conservatively, perfect hair and makeup, being accessible yet unattainable at the same time. Or else you were labelled the rebellious "bad girl" - wore revealing clothes, exaggerated makeup and hair, openly drank and partied, used sexually explicit or suggestive language, and oozed sexuality that was meant to attract and repel people at the same time. There was no way those women could live up to those absurd, contradictory standards, and it was ridiculous to expect them to behave the way we anticipated them to. So when this younger crop of actors and music artists came along in the 2010s, ones that defied those tropes, that acted in mature roles but who were actually goofballs, or who took agency over their own image and public persona, it was greeted as a breath of fresh air. Here were the "real" women of Hollywood and women who were self-possessed and in control of their public image, and for a while, the public loved it. This disaffection with what people used to think was authentic is a bizarre shift, seeing the likes of women like Zendaya or Olivia Rodrigo being applauded for being themselves, while still cultivating a carefully crafted image of themselves away from the big screen and concert stage. This desire to have "relatable" or accessible stars is at the sacrifice of their privacy, and their agency to act freely (as men do) without scrutiny and over-analysis. There's nothing wrong with that, and really, there is no "two Jennifers," just the one.

This is the first time I've fully taken issue with this channels execution of their take. They keep making statements about her behavior as if she has admitted to changing the way she behaves. It would be different it it was backed up with quotes or reports straight from her, but it's just speculation. It's the same speculation they point out that the media and public has made against her and many other people, especially women. I really didn't like how they framed this video, and I understand that no one, or channel is perfect, but they do a really great job, and are one of my favorite channels. They have enlightened, and taught me so much even back when they were Screen Prism. So it was just really tough seeing the get this on so wrong. I've read through some comments, and I'm glad plenty of people have the opinion of, she's just being who she is, and your acting roles don't have to dictate how you behave in your actual life. She's just being who she is in public, and it's different from the roles she plays. If she acted in interviews and awards shows they way her characters did in their very stressful and often depressing situations that would be weird. And I know that many women take part in the performative act of the "Cool Girl" But it's really annoying and frustrating to make it out that woman that I habit those traits don't exist, or are being unauthentic. They are the traits of people, not men, not eager to please women, but people who are comfortable being who they are. They only spend about one minute on her advocacy for fair treatment and how little attention people give it, or attribute it to part of her personality. And they did the same thing. I know this may seem a bit over the top for such a minor video for a famous person who doesn't need the comments section to go to bat for her, but it's important because she and may others have inspired people in this industry to be more open and authentic in public appearances. And that's important because people need to see them as people, so they can be humanized and treated with both respect and restraint. They are not perfect, but they are also not unfeeling.

Jennifer's career is so interesting! It reminds me of Daniel Radcliffe in a way. I can't wait to see what she has in store for the future.

I was waiting for that Cool Girl monologue to pop up! I scream every time y’all do it! 😂

The thing is, the “cool girl” really is the genuine personality of some girls. Particularly girls with older brothers from the south. I really don’t think Jennifer Lawrence ever genuinely put on a show (successfully) on a talk show. She is who she is and who she was at that point was someone probably with unmediated ADHD and OCD from Kentucky and that translated to her being a hyperactive hick and then overly self aware and critical when she realized how she was acting. Also, you gotta remember that when doing THG press (her first real interviews and talk show appearances) she was with her best friends (Josh, Liam, Woody). When a 20 year old is with her best friends she’ll act even more “quirky” (or annoying). After that a lot of the press tried to bring out that side of her every time she had an appearance and it worked for years until Hunger Games was done, DOR was found to be a perv and then she started being seen with people like Amy Shumer and Chris Pratt who do have very fake cultivated images. At that point her public likability fell apart. Idk I typically like these videos but I feel like this video misses the point of Jennifer Lawrence’s “cool girl” personality really was just her being her when it all started (circa 2012).

Would love a breakdown like this for Scarlett Johansson!!

She wasn't insulting anyone, she wasn't putting other women down, she was being herself 100%. She was just having fun being famous, and people decided that she was fake. Funny thing is that the same people who probably criticized her for being "one of the boys", which is a dumb concept that is definitely not for Jennifer, probably are the same people who call themselves feminist.

Girls who hate the cool girl have some self hatred goin on.

Amazing

I don't really follow celebrities, but I've always liked J-Law. I wasn't a fan of everything she has been in (as the genres weren't my taste), but she is very good at what she does. I have no idea of her choices were performative or genuine and I don't really care either way. It's her business.

My friends and my colleagues would describe me as a completely different person and all of them are the real me. It’s just they are capturing different moments of my life being affected by different factors. These people have moments, too. A cool girl and a gone girl can coexist in one body. We are not one static person. We are evolving and deevolving. We go back and forth. Life is not always forward, it is more circular. Humans have great range to be anything. I think it is more peaceful to accept there is no certain real someone (us or others) than trying to decide over an identity. Especially over famous people we never met in person. Why would we need to know “the real artist”, or they are good or bad.

I am tired of people calling out women’s personality either this or that! Why? Maybe this was her and now she is growing up! Maybe she is faking it? So fucking what? I don’t see men being scrutinised like this! Human beings are complex. PS: I love her on screen, off screen, everywhere else. I can actually eat a cold pizza and remain a size 2! Sorry not sorry.

She probably has a great team around her!

She is goofy, but mostly she is proving she is an amazing excellent actor, she is incredible!, especially because of what she really is. What is the problem to be an actual cool girl?

“(…) some actors avoid this kind of scrutiny by being men (..) “ 🙌🙌

I never stopped loving Anne but everyone (journalists, not actual fans) hated on her so hard for just being awesome and as a result, she disappeared for years from the forefront of the industry😭😭😭. I never truly cared for J Law’s persona or her acting in all honestly. I don’t dislike her for that nor will i leave a hate comment. I just wont watch. Recently i loved Dont Look Up Though and I’m hoping to enjoy her works in the future :)

"Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by ~being men~" lmaooo

I think JLaw was genuinely a cool funny down to earth person, I don't think that was an act at all. Nowadays she simply grew up, there's quite a difference between being 22 and 32. She was just another victim of the patriarchy. Everyone loved her at first but once she started speaking up about feminism, tackled down a couple of sexist topics such as gender inequialty in paymeant and overall treatment in the industry, and started hanging out with Amy Schummer all of a sudden she was fake and annoying. The only bad thing she did was being disrespectful towards that sacred Hawaian stone.

"The personality Lawrence revealed to us was always more well-rounded than plenty of gifs and articles suggested" - I agree with this conclusion. First of all I don't really think she was ever over playing her cool girl persona - so many colleagues have said that that's really how she acts day to day. But second, from watching (too many) interviews of hers, I can see she always had this savvy and serious side to her. And her being frank on social issues was also a natural extension of her candidness. So I agree a lot of the issue back then was her being "overexposed" and therefore picked apart more, and since she took some time away from Hollywood, that's definitely less of an issue now. But I do wish it would go a step further and people could see that there's a lot more to her. She's been a great advocate for several important issues for some time now.

I like Jennifer's acting and performing. Her image/persona is just really rare as woman. She is so funny, charismatic and dominating becauae she isn't that nervous like other actress, always has some answer, she isn't just beautiful host on the background, she makes atmosphere. She is so good in improvise. And I don't see that a lot in women. I don't think she calculates every show to fit in some image to be more likeable, it is so hard to act. She just has her sense of humor but of course it is just one layer of her personality. I see that she uses her humor in shows because shows should be fun but in other situations she will behave according to them. Because funny person don't have to be always funny. Sad person don't have to be always sad.

Jennifer Lawrence needs to go down the Sandra Bullock Route and do more comedies. I think she’d be brilliant!

Did anyone else laugh out loud when she said "Some actors avoid this intensely personal criticism by being men who are generally less scrutinized in these sorts of interactions than women."? It makes it sound like they decided on this route when entering stardom just to avoid being torn apart by the media. Like oh I think I'll be a dude so my life will be easier.

I hate that this conversation even exists. Jennifer did nothing wrong. Anne did nothing wrong. People just hate women. Periodt.

she's a great actress and as someone who was in high school during the Hunger Games franchise, looking back it's really unfortunate how much it was written off as another YA love triangle book when it had a lot of depth and feminism