Jennifer Lawrence doesn't
regret dropping out of middle school to pursue her acting career.
The
27-year-old star opened up about leaving school at the age of 14 to 60
Minutes.
"I
dropped out of middle school. I don't technically have a GED or a diploma. I am
self-educated," she said in a sneak peek of her interview with Bill Whitaker.
When asked she if she regretted
the decision, Lawrence responded, "No. I really don't. I wanted to forge
my own path. I found what I wanted to do, and I didn't want anything getting in
the way of it. Even friends, for many years, were not as important to me as my
career. I mean, from the age of 14."
School wasn't easy for Lawrence, and she knew acting was her
true calling.
"I struggled through
school. I never felt very smart," the Red Sparrow star said.
"And when I'm reading the script and I feel like I know exactly what it
would look like if somebody felt that way, that was the whole part of my brain
that I didn't even know existed—something that I could be confident in and I
didn't want to let it go."
Still, she admits her parents
weren't exactly thrilled with her decision to drop out.
"It
was just an overwhelming feeling of 'I get this. This is what I was meant
to do,'" she said. "And to get people to try to understand that, when
you're 14 years old wanting to drop out of school and do this, and your parents
are just like ‘You're out of your mind.'"
However, she's also experienced
the dangers of fame, including having her privacy violated. In 2014, a
hacker released nude photos of her online. After the experience, Lawrence said
she was reluctant to take on the lead role in Red Sparrow because
it required nudity.
"I
realized that there was a difference between consent and not," she said,
"and I showed up for the first day and I did it and I felt empowered. I
feel like something that was taken from me I got back and am using in my
art."
SOURCE: eonline.com
SOURCE: eonline.com