Actress Jennifer Lawrence says she’s “embarassed” that she grew up in the same state as Kim Davis, the Kentucky county clerk who was jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples.
Lawrence, who has been on a crusade on Hollywood’s gender pay gap, brought up the subject in an interview with Vogue published Wednesday night.
According to interviewer Jonathan Van Meter, the interview took place the day after Davis got out of jail, and Lawrence brought her up because she views Davis as the “lady who makes me embarrassed to be from Kentucky.”
Related Story: http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/article/2575923
“Don’t even say her name in this house,” she told Van Meter before criticizing “all those people holding their crucifixes, which may as well be pitchforks, thinking they’re fighting the good fight. I grew up in Kentucky. I know how they are.”
The “Hunger Games” star went on to discuss her political upbringing and how they clash with her current world views.
“I was raised a Republican, but I just can’t imagine supporting a party that doesn’t support women’s basic rights,” she said. “It’s 2015 and gay people can get married and we think that we’ve come so far, so, yay! But have we? I don’t want to stay quiet about that stuff.”
It also turns out that Van Meter was scooped by Entertainment Weekly on a choice Lawrence quote about GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump. She told Entertainment Weekly’s Nicole Sperling in October that a Trump presidency “will be the end of the world,” something she had previously said to Van Meter verbatim.
“My view on the election is pretty cut-and-dried: If Donald Trump is president of the United States, it will be the end of the world,” she told Van Meter, though she added, “he’s also the best thing to happen to the Democrats ever.”
