Jennifer Lawrence reveals reason she ‘came down hard’ on crew over uncensored scenes
Jennifer Lawrence said that she “came down hard” on movie bosses after she learned that unauthorized crew members were allowed to see her film nude scenes.
“There was an instance on set where crew members who weren’t approved when I was doing nudity were on set, and I came down hard on it,” Lawrence said during the Oct. 28 episode of “Call Her Daddy.”
“Purely because if we’re not setting that kind of principle at the level of which we’re doing it right now, you know, then what on earth is going to happen to an 18-year-old?” she said.
The “Hunger Games” star explained she felt she had a duty to speak up, given her experience in the industry.
“If she shows up and there’s people that aren’t approved, she’s going to be in a position like, do I say something and get a reputation for being difficult?” Lawrence said of the hypothetical 18-year-old.
“Or do I just let these people that I’m not comfortable seeing me naked see me naked? So it was important to me to explain that to the people why that was not OK,” she said.
Lawrence did not share what project she was working on when this incident occurred.
Her first-ever nude scene was in the 2018 film “Red Sparrow,” where she played ballerina-turned-Russian-operative Dominika Egorova.
In 2014, nude photos of the actress were leaked and posted on the website 4chan by a hacker who broke into Apple’s iCloud storage system. The hacker also targeted other famous figures, such as Kate Upton.
Lawrence said that the experience was “so unbelievably violating.”
“When I first found out it was happening, my security reached out to me. It was happening minute-to-minute — it was almost like a ransom situation where they were releasing new ones every hour or so,” Lawrence said during a 2017 interview with the Hollywood Reporter.
“And, I don’t know, I feel like I got gang-banged by the f—-ng planet — like, there’s not one person in the world that is not capable of seeing these intimate photos of me,” she said.
She admitted that it was a “really impossible thing to process.”