Actress Jennifer Lawrence taunted former Vice President Mike Pence, calling him a closeted gay man at GLAAD’s (Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation) annual Media Awards event in New York City Saturday.
The show started Saturday with a bit of disruption, as one invited guest had to be escorted out of the venue after standing up and yelling about how GLAAD is “complicit in genocide” over the situation in Gaza.
From the stage, TV personality Ross Matthews agreed that the issue was important, Billboard reported.
“That was uncomfy for everybody,” Mathews said after the audience member was removed. “But you know what? We have to fight for everyone’s rights – and that’s one of them.”
Later in the show, Oscar-winner Lawrence, who is not gay, strangely took aim at Mike Pence, who is not exactly a topical target and whose political career is long over and likely will never be revived.
Lawrence won an Oscar for Best Actress in 2013 for her role in the film Silver Linings Playbook, but has since struggled to find hit movies other than her Hunger Games series of films. She took a year-long break from acting in 2020 and has appeared in only three films since…
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