Jennifer Lawrence Superfan Quiz: Can You Answer These 15 Questions About Her Career?
Whether you love Jennifer Lawrence for her portrayal as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunter Games, her acclaimed performances in dramas like Silver Linings Playbook, or her friendly and energetic demeanor in interviews, there’s a lot to appreciate about the actor. Lawrence carries a blockbuster or indie production with impressive effortlessness, and it looks like she’s doing what she’s meant to do when she disappears into a character. If you consider yourself a J-Law superfan, see how many of these 15 trivia questions you can ace.
Q: What was Lawrence’s breakout TV role?
Before her biggest movies like X-Men and Silver Linings Playbook, Lawrence got started in television, including guest spots in Monk and Cold Case. Her first main role in TV was the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show. She played Lauren Pearson, the oldest daughter of creator and star Bill Engvall’s character Bill Pearson, a family counselor who was clueless about his own family.
Q: How old was Lawrence when she filmed Winter’s Bone?
Lawrence’s major breakout in Hollywood was her role in the thriller Winter’s Bone, where she played a 17-year-old girl trying to save her poverty-stricken family from eviction. She scored her first Academy Award nomination when the film was released in 2010, and she was only 18 years old when she filmed the part according to a Vanity Fair interview.
Q: What Fashion House is Lawrence an Ambassador for?
A: Lawrence is always stunning on the red carpet, thanks in no small part to the gorgeous Christian Dior outfits she usually wears as an ambassador for the luxury house.
Q: When was Lawrence the highest-paid Hollywood actress?
Along with huge blockbuster roles in The Hunger Games and the X-Men movies, Lawrence signed a generous contract to become a Dior ambassador in 2012. In 2015 and 2016, Lawrence topped the Forbes list of highest-paid female actors, just ahead of Scarlett Johansson in 2015 and Melissa McCarthy in 2016.
Q: How long was Lawrence’s daily makeup routine for X-Men: First Class?
To play the shapeshifter Mystique in X-Men: First Class, Lawrence said it took eight hours of prep in the makeup chair, and she even had to spend some of the time sitting on a bicycle so the artists could work on her lower body more easily. Luckily, she had to spend far less time in makeup for future movies in the series.
Q: What TV network is Lawrence a super-fan of?
Lawrence is an outspoken fan of many shows from the reality-focused cable network Bravo, frequently appearing on Andy Cohen’s talk show Watch What Happens Live! to provide her opinions on the current programming. She has expressed appreciation for many franchises including Below Deck, Vanderpump Rules, and of course, The Real Housewives.
Q: Who was the musical guest when Lawrence hosted SNL?
Lawrence is best known for dramatic roles and action franchises, but she has solid comedy bonafides and natural comedic instincts that inform some of her best characters. She hosted Saturday Night Live once in 2013, along with The Lumineers as musical guests.
Q: For which movie did Lawrence negotiate a salary higher than her male co-star?
Lawrence has been outspoken about the pervasive pay gaps between men and women that still plague every industry in America. When leaked emails revealed that Lawrence was paid less than her male co-stars in American Hustle, she penned an essay for actor Lena Dunham’s newsletter Lenny Letter where she said in part, “When the Sony hack happened and I found out how much less I was being paid than the lucky people with d––s, I didn’t get mad at Sony. I got mad at myself.”
When Lawrence joined the sci-fi film Passengers, she negotiated a higher salary than her co-star Chris Pratt. Pratt was paid $12 million, while Lawrence took home $20 million against 30 percent of the movie’s profit if it broke even.
Q: Which of Lawrence’s Hunger Games co-stars also auditioned to be Katniss?
Lawrence was the frontrunner of a huge list of popular actors in consideration, beating several more established stars to play the iconic YA character of Katniss Everdeen. Stars like Emma Roberts, Abigail Breslin, Hailee Steinfeld, and Saoirse Ronan were reportedly considered before Lawrence got the offer.
Another actor who auditioned for Katniss was Isabelle Fuhrman, best known for the 2009 horror film Orphan. She was later cast as the cruel District 2 tribute Clove who had a penchant for throwing knives in the first Hunger Games.
Q: What nature documentary did Lawrence narrate?
While she has been all over different genres with her movies and TV shows, Lawrence hasn’t been that active in voice acting or voiceover. She did lend her voice to the IMAX Productions documentary A Beautiful Planet, filmed by crew members of the International Space Station featuring beautiful views of Earth.
Q: Who is the only real-life figure Lawrence has played?
The biggest highs of Lawrence’s career are from playing original characters, but she was nominated for an Academy Award for her portrayal of the Miracle Mop inventor Joy Mangano in the 2015 biopic Joy. While the David O. Russell–directed movie got a mixed reception, Lawrence’s performance was universally praised as the movie’s strongest element.
Q: What is Lawrence’s production company called?
The star expanded into some behind-the-scenes work when she founded her company Excellent Cadaver in 2018. Along with producing two of Lawrence’s most recent films, the drama Causeway and the raunchy comedy No Hard Feelings, Excellent Cadaver also produced the documentary Bread and Roses, directed by Sahra Mani, which was about different women’s lives in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan.
Q: Do you know Lawrence’s brothers’ names?
Lawrence is the youngest of three children born to Gary and Karen Lawrence in Kentucky. Her brothers, Ben and Blaine, still live in Kentucky. Ben works in the tech industry, while Blaine is the director of Camp Hi-Ho, a summer camp their mother, Karen, founded that all three Lawrence siblings attended as children.
Q: Who here is a close friend of Lawrence’s?
While they initially had a competitive edge in the world of auditions as young actors, Lawrence and Poor Things star Emma Stone are great friends. The two were reportedly first introduced by Woody Harrelson who passed Lawrence’s number to Stone, and the two texted for a year before meeting up in person.
Q: Where did Lawrence study acting?
Trick question! Lawrence has no formal training in acting and dropped out of middle school to pursue her dreams. Speaking with Bill Whitaker of CBS News about her process when discussing her performance in Winter’s Bone, Lawrence said: “It was really just feeling, believing, you know, in this situation. Look at it through her eyes. And then that’s always gonna come across in your eyes.”
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