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Jennifer Lawrence has never been one to hold her tongue.
And in her cover interview for Vogue's October issue, she made it plain that she no longer has patience for those who do. "I can't f**k with people who aren't political anymore. You live in the United States of America. You have to be political. It's too dire. Politics are killing people," she said.
In the interview with writer Abby Aguirre, Lawrence, who originally hails from Kentucky and used to identify as a Republican, revealed that the increasingly fractured state of the country has put a strain on her relationship with her parents.
"I just worked so hard in the last five years to forgive my dad and my family and try to understand," Lawrence said about their differing political views. "It's different. The information they are getting is different. Their life is different....I've tried to get over it and I really can't. I can't."
She told Aguirre that she's had recurring nightmares about Fox News host Tucker Carlson, which she talks to her therapist about, and that she still mourns Hillary Clinton's presidential loss in 2016 to Donald Trump, especially in the wake of Roe.
"It breaks my heart because America had the choice between a woman and a dangerous, dangerous jar of mayonnaise," she said. "And they were like, 'Well, we can't have a woman. Let's go with the jar of mayonnaise.'...I don't want to disparage my family, but I know that a lot of people are in a similar position with their families. How could you raise a daughter from birth and believe that she doesn't deserve equality? How?"
She got equally candid about gun reform.
"I'm raising a little boy who is going to go to school one day. Guns are the number one cause of death for children in the United States," she said. "And people are still voting for politicians who receive money from the NRA. It blows my mind. I mean if Sandy Hook didn't change anything? We as a nation just went, 'Okay! We are allowing our children to lay down their lives for our right to a Second Amendment that was written over 200 years ago.'"
Lawrence, 32, welcomed a baby boy, Cy, whose name she revealed in the story, with husband Cooke Maroney earlier this year, and her film Don't Look Up was nominated for a best picture Oscar. Next up is November's Causeway, which will have its premiere at the Toronto International Film Festival on September 10. It's the first film out of her production company, Excellent Cadaver, which she founded in 2018.
Newsweek has reached out to Jennifer Lawrence for comment.
