The Hunger Games star comes under fire from activists…
The Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence might be
a fighter on film, but the actress might end up actually having to protect herself from a Kim Kardashian-style flour bomb as
she’s just got into a war of words with PETA.
The actress was referring to a graphic scene that she shot for
her Oscar-nominated performance in The Winter’s Bone, where she skins a squirrel.
“I should say it wasn’t
real, for PETA. But screw PETA,” she told Rolling Stone.
Once PETA had got wind of her remarks, its
president Ingrid Newkirk issued a statement which read: “She’s young and the plight of animals somehow hasn’t yet touched her
heart. As Henry David Thoreau said, ‘The squirrel you kill in jest, dies in earnest.’”
Newkirk also added: “When
people kill animals, it is the animals who are ‘screwed,’ not PETA, and one day I hope she will try to make up for any pain
she might cause any animal who did nothing but try to eke out a humble existence in nature.”
But now PETA, who
recently lost a big ally in the form of Khloe Kardashian, has decided to open its arms to Jennifer Lawrence by telling
Gossip Cop on Tuesday (April 10): “That was just a throw-away remark, and we have our bet on Jennifer ending up
joining the ranks of other young celebrities like Natalie Portman, Lea Michele, and Kellan Lutz, who are using their
influence to help animals.”
Why do you think PETA has changed its tune?