Jennifer Lawrence Was Forced to Do Nude Line-Up for a Role

As women across the country have spoken up to share their personal stories of sexual harassment and assault, Jennifer Lawrence has joined in. The Passengers star told an audience at a press event this week that early in her career, she was forced by a producer (notably, a female producer) to do a nude line-up with other actresses, the goal of which was to shame Lawrence into losing weight. Lawrence told the audience that the humiliating incident was only one of many she has experienced in her Hollywood career.

Via Page Six.

Jennifer Lawrence revealed that one of her earliest acting jobs was rife with sexual harassment, from demands to lose weight to being propositioned for pornography.

“When I was much younger and starting out, I was told by producers of a film to lose 15 pounds in two weeks,” the Oscar winner said at the Elle Women in Hollywood event on Monday. “[It was] sort of crazy. One girl before me had already been fired for not losing enough weight fast enough. During this time a female producer had me do a nude line-up with about five women who were much, much, thinner than me. We are stood side-by-side with only paste-ons covering our privates.”

“After that degrading and humiliating lineup, the female producer told me I should use the naked photos of myself as inspiration for my diet,” Lawrence, 27, added with a chuckle. “I can laugh now, it’s OK.”

Lawrence claimed that her director at the time only made matters worse and more uncomfortable than they were already.

“He asked me to star in a porno as the character,” she revealed, “among many other things that are too inappropriate to repeat here in this dress.” She added, “He said he didn’t know why everyone thought I was so fat, he thought I was ‘perfectly f—kable.'”

The “mother!” star continued, “I was trapped, and I can see that now. I didn’t want to be a whistleblower, I didn’t want these embarrassing stories talked about in a magazine, I just wanted a career … In all of the sadness, I think it’s been oddly unifying. It’s so fundamental to the female experience to be mistreated and to feel ashamed of it.”

“In a dream world, everyone is treated with the same amount of respect. But until we reach that goal, I will lend my ear, I will lend my voice to any boy, girl, man or woman who does not feel like they can protect themselves,” she continued. “I let myself be treated a certain way because I felt I had to for my career,” she said. “I’m still learning that I don’t have to smile when a man makes me uncomfortable. Every human being should have the power to be treated with respect because they’re human.”

Get the rest of the story at Page Six.

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