

If you're wondering what a 'Cool Girl' is, there's a passage in Gillian Flynn's 2012 novel Gone Girl which perfectly explains the myth of the 'Cool Girl' and the ongoing fascination with this mythical creature. Mostly, it was Lawrence's goofy, relatable Hollywood 'Cool Girl' schtick that made fans all over the world fall in love with her and eventually turn on her. And for a brief period she joined Taylor Swift's #GirlSquad. And she was also linked to her Passengers co-star Chris Pratt while he was still married to Anna Faris.Īmy Schumer was her bestie, with the pair often posting candid photos of themselves hanging out a beach bonfires on Instagram. There were persistent rumours that her on-screen chemistry with her Hunger Games' co-star Liam Hemsworth translated She dated several high-profile men including Coldplay frontman Chris Martin and About A Boy's Nicholas Hoult. To be a versatile performer, who dominated the best actress categories at the Oscars, the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs.īut it was Lawrence's life off the screen which continued to attract headlines. Lawrence, still in her early to mid-20s at this stage, had more than proved herself She went on to star in Silver Linings Playbook, Serena, House at the End of the Street, American Hustle and the X-Men franchise. Part coming-of-age, part mystery-thriller, Winter's Bone made waves in the industry and quickly established LawrenceĪs an actor who could take on the meatier roles.Īt 20 years old, she landed the role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games franchise, a move which established her as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time. She rose to fame early, landing the role of 17-year-old Ree Dolly in the critically acclaimed 2010 film Winter's Bone. She's right, there was a time when Lawrence was everywhere. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul." I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: 'Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. "If I walked a red carpet, it was, 'Why didn’t she run?'. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right," she told journalist Karen Valby, for a profile published in Vanity Fair this "I just think everybody had gotten sick of me.
