Jennifer Lawrence has revealed that she had a "feminist meltdown" when she was considering taking her husband's last name after marriage.
Lawrence married art gallerist Cooke Maroney in October 2019, and now shares a six-year-old son with him. In an interview with The New York Times, she revealed why she was hesitant at first to take her husband's last name.
"God, I had such a feminist meltdown about changing my name because it's my identity," Lawrence said. "It's the first thing I'm given."
What eventually changed her mind was the time she spent starring as Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games franchise. After being thrust into the spotlight, her relationship with her name shifted.
"I was born with the name Jennifer Lawrence, but that got taken from me when I was 21," she explained. "And I never got it back. So it didn't feel like I was giving up anything. That name already belongs to them."
But Lawrence doesn't regret her part in The Hunger Games—in fact, she treasures the movies. She's simply ready for that chapter of her life to close.
“Those movies were fantastic,” she said. “The only thing that gave me pause was just how famous it would make me.”
When she heard about the upcoming franchise prequels starring Rachel Zegler, Lawrence admitted she felt "old as mold," but she's quite happy to no longer be at the height of her fame. According to the actor, the pressure put on her in her younger years “just doesn’t exist for an actress in her 30s.”
"I can tell things are different by my interactions in the real world, just by the way that I can move about life," she explained. "There's an occasional article about me walking out in Ugg boots, but other than that, the interest has lessened, God bless it."
