Jennifer Lawrence explains the real reason for the flip flops at Cannes

Jennifer Lawrence admits that some people say it was her protest against the dress code on Cannes Film Festival.

The Hunger Gamesa star who is praised for wearing flip-flops in breaking festival rules for women to wear high heelstold Entertainment Tonight that she didn’t intend to protest and just wanted to fix a wardrobe issue.

“I didn’t make a political statement, and I wouldn’t.” she said “ET” on Thursday. “I had no idea until it turned out that there was a whole controversy with people wearing flats or something like that walking barefoot on the red carpet. I had no idea”.

“My shoes were a size bigger,” she continued.

Lawrence said she didn’t know about it. Julia Roberts walked the red carpet barefoot in 2016 to defy the unspoken rules. Who did she know? Kristen Stewart ditched Christian Louboutins in 2018 or what Cate Blanchett left her stilettos at home a few hours later, Lawrence was walking the red carpet in flip-flops.

Lawrence attended the screening of the documentary Bread and Roses. women under the Taliban which she produced when her flip flops hit the headlines. Unfamiliar with the heel protest, she said she only wanted to take pictures and didn’t want a repeat. past mistakes.

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Lawrence said she’s “all about making a statement” but just wants to do it “intentionally”.

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“I forgot to take a picture with my Perfect Corpse crew,” she said. “So we had to take a picture of ‘Great Corpse’ and I knew I was going to eat shit if I went down in a size too big shoe.”

“I put on flip-flops,” she continued. “And then everyone was like, ‘What a statement! Wow!'”

Lawrence famously fell at the Oscars in 2013. accepting her statue – and did it again next year. She is currently promoting the raunchy sex comedy No Offense, in which her character is hired by two worried parents to “send dates” to their inexperienced son.

Even in flip-flops, Lawrence is stunning in a cherry red dress from Christian Dior at Cannes.

The star said she was “all about making a statement” but would rather do it “intentionally”.