Jennifer Lawrence was one of many celebrities to make her voice heard in the days following Donald Trump's election victory. "Do not let this defeat you—let this enrage you!" Lawrence wrote in a powerful essay for Vice. "Let it motivate you! Let this be the fire you didn't have before. If you are an immigrant, if you are a person of color, if you are LGBTQ+, if you are a woman—don't be afraid, be loud!"
Though her statement was largely embraced, it drew some backlash from the right-wing, which Lawrence addressed during an interview on Good Morning America yesterday. "I didn't mean to speak to only people who voted for Hillary [Clinton]," Lawrence explained. "I meant to just speak to the divide. For any presidential candidate, being very extreme is scary, left or right."
Having starred in The Hunger Games franchise since 2012, Lawrence said that she was very aware that many of her younger fans would have recently reached voting age. "When the election happened, I couldn't help but think of those girls who are [now] 18," she said. "I completely understand when people say, 'Just shut up and act.' But for me there are times where I feel a real need to speak to those girls."
