Jennifer Lawrence would very much like to be excluded from Harvey Weinstein’s narrative. The actress, who previously worked with the disgraced mogul on the film Silver Linings Playbook, has continually been dragged into stories about his fall from grace—most recently when Weinstein’s legal team used an old quote from Lawrence to defend the producer’s character in court. (In case you forgot: he’s been accused of sexual misconduct by dozens of women but denies all claims of nonconsensual acts.) Lawrence’s press tour for Red Sparrow has, as a result, doubled as a Distance Yourself from Weinstein Tour. She talked about him on 60 Minutes, she talked about him with Oprah, and now she’s talking about him on Stephen Colbert’sLate Show.
In a Monday night interview—after Colbert provided her with a few rounds of rum (a bit he’s done before with stars like Dakota Johnson)—the actress excoriated Weinstein’s team for using her words without her permission: “He is just that horrible ass boil that does not go away,” she declared. “You pop the ass boil. He’s just the worst. When is it gonna end?”
The Academy Award winner explained that she was deep in the throes of her Red Sparrow press tour when she caught wind of what Weinstein’s legal team was doing.
“In the middle of the night, I had to come up with a statement in London,” she said. “And I was like, it’s still not over?”
Nope, it’s still not over—and it won’t be over for quite some time, considering how many legal snafus Weinstein has waded into since the scandal broke last October. Still, “horrible ass boil” is an entertaining entry to Lawrence’s oeuvre of Weinstein disses. In her 60 Minutes interview, she was a touch more visceral.
“What he did is criminal and deplorable,” she said of the allegations. “And when it came out and I heard about it, I wanted to kill him. The way that he destroyed so many women’s lives. I want to see him in jail.”
Red Sparrow hits theaters this Friday—so savor the few days we have left of Lawrence’s publicity-tour jabs.
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