Jennifer Lawrence Discusses Hollywood's Gender Pay Gap

Look who is here right here. I had my slapping alarm. What it looked like is you had a lot of fun with Jennifer Lawrence. Oh we did and you know she's been speaking out about income inequality issues and about gender inequality issues. And she is one spirited girl from Kentucky. We are two Louisville girls, a few years apart, but we started out in my kitchen. Two hometown girls in New York City. My kitchen, but the barbecue is pure Kentucky. We both grew up in Louisville 45 years apart, but steeped in the soft hills of home. Oh my God, I have like I've never seen this picture. Who do my God band class? Did they assign you the elbow or did you? No, I just people don't wander into Oboe. Is there any music that you think of as home? I'm going to be honest, I don't know. I've just been into a bone and I'm not sure how to spit it out on camera. I would offer and yet. Back in Louisville, she was a cheerleader for awhile. Ain't no sweat this game ain't over yet. I was a bookworm likely to succeed. She was most talkative in class. Chatty us. Oh yeah, most talkative girl in school. Very good, congratulations hard to get. At age 25, she's some kind of dazzling hybrid and irreverent kid and a movie star with a transfixing power on the screen. Are you? Come into the tree. The final episode of Hunger Games Mockingjay Part 2 is about to arrive. Again, she is Katniss, the embodiment of strength in the face of fear. It's all a business. And off screen, Jennifer Lawrence herself has been making news with the kind of warrior challenge all her own. When hacked emails about her movie American Hustle revealed that she was paid less than her male co-stars, she wrote about it, saying if she were honest with herself, it was partly because she had fallen into a trap women face, not wanting to be difficult or spoiled. While men don't care, my question to myself was, why am I not asking for it? And I think I know that I've always kind of carried a habit of submissiveness. With the idea of that makes me more likable, some of her co-stars have spoken out for her and for other women in the workplace everywhere. I felt like I I I had to say something because we need to talk about it. On average, women are paid 21% less than men. We can ask for the same exact thing as that that men do, and we do face the reality that. We are, we do get judged more. It's just something that. Is intrinsic and. I would love to see change. We are now heading downtown in New York City to a unique store, a kind of gallery that has archery in the back all the way back. I try it, my arrow bounces back. Told you to point down. Your form is just horrible. I put it back in your shoulder bleed a little bit more and a minute later she disappears. I showed Dan how to shoot archery today and let's just say she nailed it by late afternoon when we sit to talk. She's reflective about her life now at the crossroads. So what's the biggest difference in you in the last year? You know, when I wrapped the Hunger Games. I am. I wrapped. These movies had been my life for so long and they had to come first and everything. I was also in a relationship with somebody for five years and we broke up around the same time that I wrapped those movies and it was kind of. Being 24 was this whole year of who am I? Without these movies, who am I? Without this man so young, the future ahead, maybe marriage, maybe not. I don't know if I ever will, but I will get married and I'm OK with that. I don't feel like I need anything. To complete me, I love meeting people, people coming into your life and bringing something you know I don't really plan on getting married. I might. I definitely want to be a mother when you don't need it is when. You get to choose. Yeah, it's great. More about me. I would like. By Christmas, you'll see her in another movie called Joy about a struggling housewife who invents a miracle mop and transforms everything. In America, all races and all classes can meet and make whatever opportunities they can. She has this ability, this magic. That she finally can't deny any longer, but for now she is moving on from a kind of legacy as the girl who awakened a generation of tiny fans and taught them what it's like to believe in yourself. And there she is. You know she is such an extraordinary and truly natural actor that at one point some acting teacher said don't ever go to acting class again. Don't touch it. Don't let anybody interfere with what you know to do. And by the way, the latest Hunger Games. The last one is out on November 20th. Yeah, we're looking forward to seeing it twice. We're seeing it tomorrow. But it's pretty good archer too. Yes, her archery is for real. I happened to hit the door in the ceiling. People were running for their lives. It's harder than it looks. It's hard and you have to aim in some unnerving direction. You have to aim down. Is that what you have to aim down? And then we got down on our knees. And of course I fly. But she's really good. I really love what you said to her about when you get to when you don't need. You get to choose. Yes, that's true. And she's so young and yet so yeah, that's right, but it's wonderful. You know she's really extraordinarily confident about her love of what she does and her love of acting. She's going to direct someday and she's writing a screenplay with Amy Schumer now. Oh goodness, oh yeah, we talked about it. Yes, in fact, she said Amy Schumer paid. Said she'd pay her $100 if she called me die during the interview. She did. We can see so much more tonight. Tonight on nightline for sure. It's going to be a long and and we go through a lot of moods. We go to the place that she was discovered and she talks a little bit about being a child. It wasn't easy for her at all until she found what she loved her gift. It was wonderful having you here and we get to have you back next week. That's right. Big family reunion already. We'd love to have like that. See you then. Thank you Diane.