Jennifer Lawrence is known to be one of the greatest talents in the cinematic industry. She is a beautiful and skilled woman who knows her craft well. She proved her mettle in acting with Silver Lining Playbook, for which she won the Academy Award for Best Actress. Despite being one of the most demanded actors, she is also famous for her self-deprecating humor. However, her clumsy humor once put her in a difficult situation.
The actress opened up about a weird incident when she was shooting The Hunger Games, where her one action made her fans very angry with her.
Jennifer Lawrence angered her fans with her story from The Hunger Games
Jennifer Lawrence graced The Graham Norton Show in 2016 for the promotion of her film Passengers. The actress shared a very awkward story on the show. The fans and viewers did not appreciate it. The X-men actress shared the incident story from the time she was shooting for the film The Hunger Games in Hawaii.
Apparently, there were some sacred rocks in the area where they were shooting, and people were not supposed to sit on them. According to Lawrence, people were not supposed to expose their genitalia to them. She explained that she was wearing a wetsuit and thought it was alright to sit on one of the rocks. But unfortunately, as she sat there, her bottom began to itch, and the rock was perfectly placed to relieve her itch. Somehow her actions made the boulder loose and it began to roll toward a crewmember. She added,
“All the Hawaiians were like ‘Oh my God. It’s the curse’ and I’m in the corner, like, going, ‘I’m your curse. I wedged it loose with my a**.’ ‘”
The viewers were unimpressed by her story, and they called her disrespectful.
Jennifer Lawrence had to apologize for the Hawaiian story
Around 1.3 million people watched the clip after it was posted on BBC One‘s social media page. The clip Lawrence had shared about the Hawaiian disrespectful story had gone viral, and people worldwide posted negative comments and asked her to apologize.
Don’t Look Up star later took to her own Facebook page to apologize, as she wrote,
“From Jen to the Internet.”
“I meant absolutely no disrespect to the Hawaiian people.”
“I really thought that I was being self-deprecating about the fact that I was ‘the curse’, but I understand the way it was perceived was not funny and I apologize if I offended anyone.”
The real location of the rocks in Hawaii is not shared, but some scenes of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire were filmed on the North Shore of Oahu at Kawela Bay. It was used for the scene, where the tributes appear on top of the saltwater lake for the Quarter Quell.
Source- Nicky Swift