When asked about Israel's violence in Gaza, which many of the world's leading experts have called a genocide, Lawrence replied: I'm terrified. It's mortifying. What's happening is no less than a genocide and it's terrible. What makes me so sad is the disrespect in the discourse of American politics right now and how that is going to be normalized to the kids right now, she added.
No actor defined the 2010s more than Jennifer Lawrence. Less than halfway into the decade, at the age of 22, Lawrence had won the hearts of audiences as the hero Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, and a best actress Oscar for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook (famously tripping en route to accept it). She was bold, beautiful, brash and inescapable; her self-deprecating humour paired with megawatt talent made her a Messiah for millennials until she wasn't.