16. for lawrence, there was no turning back. she called one night and jennifer said, dad, i saw a rat as big as shadow. i asked her dad, what s shadow? he said, that s our big black cat. the cool thing about that was they knew she loved what she was doing and living even though it was a crummy apartment in new york because she didn t complain about that at all. her parents weren t sure but left jennifer stay through the summer. amanda cornish was working with jennifer s mother then. she was just nervous about their daughter going off into another direction. she was very supportive, though. as the summer came to an end, her father flew to new york to bring jennifer home for the beginning of the school year. but when he arrived, an agent called to bring jennifer to los angeles instead. i just remember when it was like she s not coming back, like, this is where this is going to go. her career took off.
start when you re talking about audition. charlie sexton remembers it well. he was her eighth grade acting coach. she sort of had that sort of nonchalant oh, hi. nothing s really going to bother me air about her. what? it s happening for you. what is happening for you? what is happening is happening. she always said, i m doing this, i m going to make it. years before the red carpet, hollywood s it girl was strutting her stuff across this stage. far from the spotlight. this is it. if jennifer was here, this would have been a classroom space. in this very space? this very space. walden theater in louisville, kentucky, where jennifer lawrence calls home. she grew up in indian hills which is a nice suburban neighborhood in louisville. local reporter josh moss landed a rare interview with jennifer and her family in 2010. growing up here, it was easy for her to be sort of grounded in her family and family is really important to her.
into a warrior. she is somebody who sort of had muscle tone and you looked at her and she s not like this 90-pound person with like, you know, cross bow. she looks like she could actually like a tough cookie. looks like she can climb a tree. something her former director said was close to home for jennifer. in certain ways, it resembles her life in kentucky. she knows the woods. she knows how to fish. her mom used to have a campground for kids in the woods. the film was a box office record breaker. and jennifer lawrence was now a household name. i think that jennifer s performance in the hunger games deserves an oscar nomination. but that second nomination would have to wait until lawrence s next film, silver linings playbook. i m just the crazy slut with a dead husband! lawrence played a promiscuous widow battling her demons, a
but i basically i was always putting on shows. early on, a different dream started to stick. i was like, i would put on an outfit, go knock on the front door and say, my name is judy and the car broke down. jennifer s mack for performing upstaged the family s passion for sports. all jennifer wanted to do was play the positions where she could put on a costume, so that was the catcher or the goalie. her mom said that jennifer would turn cart wheels down the field as opposed to playing. jennifer was hooked. even at that young age, she knew that s what she wanted to pursue. knowing the fact her family was a sports-oriented family, did they recognize that early on? her mother said, had jennifer been able to throw a pitch, we would have recognized the talent because they were familiar with sports. with acting, they didn t know what a good actor was or good actress was. it was like i was always an actress, we didn t realize it until i became an actress. then we were like,
by a sycamore tree she had to sing au capella. that s not easy to do. that s brave. that doesn t surprise me that she had the courage to do that because she was determined and unflappable. when she wasn t performing, the budding star was just a normal student in middle school. one and two, and ready and go. where amanda cornish was also her band teacher. what was she like in class? quick wit and sarcasm. she could have a punch line at the end of something and created that kind of moment where it s like it s no surprise jennifer was voted most talkative in her class. she talked quite a bit. i remember one of her other teachers was like, how do you get her to be quiet? i m like, you put something in her mouth. like an obo.