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Jennifer Lawrence has responded to online criticism that she was ‘rude’ while presenting an award at the BAFTAs overnight.
Lawrence received a gushing introduction from host Joanna Lumley, who called her the “hottest actress on the planet” and “ravishing”.
When she got to the microphone, Lawrence said Lumley’s comments were “a bit much”, which some (mainly on Twitter) interpreted as “rude” and “stuck up”.
Explaining her comment the next day in an interview with UK radio program Magic Radio, Jennifer explained she just couldn’t accept the generous praise heaped on her.
“Everybody thought that I was being rude. But to be fair, I couldn’t have just walked out after she was like, ‘biggest movie star in the world!!’”
“[Imagine if] I’d just walked out and gone ‘thank you Joanna’. It would have been like, ‘so you agree? You think you’re really pretty!’”
“It was an inside joke. She went on and said all these really nice things about me and then when I got up to the podium, I was like ‘that was a bit much.’”
“After I just spent all backstage telling her how to be really nice to me. I wasn’t being rude, it was an inside joke.”
Also overnight, a rep for Lawrence told Entertainment Weekly that reports she plans to take the next year off are false.
The representative said she will return to work when one of several projects in development is ready to go; at present she has signed on for an untitled film with Amy Schumer, the Zelda Fitzgerald biopic Zelda, Adam McKay’s Bad Blood and Burial Rites, the big-screen adaptation of the novel by Australian author Hannah Kent.
