During a press conference for mockingjay part 2, Jennifer said she wrote her essay to show how hard it is to be a woman and talk about inequality and salaries in general. Because people take shots at you just for saying it:
"It was more of how did my mentality get in my own way of fighting just as hard as the men to get a better deal"
"I hoped to just write about my own fears of how am I going to be portrayed? Or how am I going to look? How will people judge me? Obviously the men in the movie don’t think that way. Even after I wrote it, I don’t remember the website, but they called it 'Jennifer Lawrence’s bratty display.' And I was like, 'Thank you for completely making my point.' If a woman speaks up, is assertive and has a voice, she’s going to be called a 'brat.' I don’t see a man being called a 'brat.'"
The Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson added:
"As girls we don't always have the confidence to feel like we won't be judged if we speak up. That's at the heart of that (Lawrence) essay. It's a really important thing to speak up."
Jennifer and Liam going for Dinner in Berlin
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