For the past four years Jennifer Lawrence has played a woman battling a despotic and villainous president in the Hunger Games franchise. Turns out all those anti-Snow feelings? She has them for presidential hopeful Donald Trump as well.
“If Donald Trump becomes president, that will be the end of the
world,” Lawrence declares in an Entertainment Weekly interview. Whether or
not the Trumpocalypse would entail inventive annual televised death trials
like the Hunger Games, Lawrence doesn’t say. But she does draw a line
between Trump’s triumphs and reality programming.
Her co-star Josh Hutcherson says of the Trump campaign, “It’s a publicity
stunt. It can’t be real.” But Lawrence responds, “I genuinely believe that
reality television has reached the ultimate place where now even things like
this might just be for entertainment. It’s either that or it’s Hillary’s
brilliant idea.” Speaking of Clinton, Lawrence was rumored to be in the
running for a Hillary biopic from director James Ponsoldt back in 2013.
Nothing ever came of the project but I wonder if Lawrence might be more
likely to take on the role of a young Hillary Rodham if Clinton actually
winds up winning the White House.
But we’re a long way from that decision. In fact, comedian John
Oliver told Stephen Colbert Wednesday night that he won’t even discuss Trump
until 2016. But many of us can’t help getting drawn into the Trump
spectacle.
Lawrence explains, “I was watching him on the campaign trail and one guy
said, ‘I love Donald Trump because he’s saying everything I’m thinking and I
just can’t say it because of the P.C. factor.’” Lawrence concludes
sarcastically, “‘You are absolutely right. That’s who I want representing my
country, somebody politically incorrect. That will just be perfect.’”
