Jennifer Lawrence on dress controversy: ‘I walked my bare a** out there – nobody forced me’

The actress was accused of not advocating feminism in a designer Versace gown 
Had enough: Jennifer Lawrence turned heads in the Versace number
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Emma Powell2 March 2018
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Jennifer Lawrence has launched another scathing attack on the controversy surrounding her Versace gown, insisting that nobody "forced" her to wear the revealing dress.

The US actress, 27, was pictured in a plunging black dress with a thigh high slit while her Red Sparrow male cast members were wrapped up in coats during a photo call in London last week.

Lawrence slammed those who accused her of not advocating feminism, blasting her critics as “loud”, “annoying” and “having no point”.

Speaking to Howard Stern she said: “I saw the cameras for the photo call, and I walked my bare a** out there for the photos. Nobody took a coat from me. All this stuff of people trying to be feminist, and it’s like, you’re not.

Controversy: Jennifer Lawrence with her Red Sparrow co-stars
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“You’re loud, you’re annoying, you have no point. And what you also do is take away – you make people hate a movement.”

She claimed those “screaming out on the streets and on social media about it” hinder the work of those who work tirelessly behind campaigns such as Time’s Up."

Showing off: Jennifer Lawrence said she wanted to flaunt the designer dress
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She continued: “When these fringe people who have these blogs start creating [stories] and just being annoying as f***, you know me wearing a f****** dress isn’t like, feminist, you know that, you’re not that f****** stupid.

“[The criticism was] that the men were wearing coats and I wasn’t. It was a fabulous dress. I wasn’t going to cover it up in a f****** coat.”

Lawrence joked that she also swerved a coat because she had lost weight and wanted to show it off.

She finished: “Do you have any idea how much weight I lose on press tours, reading comments? Oh my god. I wasn't going to put a coat on. My arms were finally skinny. It's gone now.”

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Her comments come days after she revealed she had been left “extremely offended” by the fall out.

Posting on Facebook she said reports of her wearing a “revealing dress in the cold” were “sexist” and created “silly distractions from real issues”.

The actress was in the capital to promote her new film, which sees her play Russian ballerina-turned-spy, Dominika Egorova.

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