Can you imagine if Anne Hathaway or Channing Tatum had tripped and fallen on stage at the Oscars? Something tells me the response, both from them and from the audience, would have been remarkably different. It’s doubtful the overwhelming response from the public would have been “s/he’s awesome.”
With Tatum it would have been like oh, I guess he is mortal, and with Hathaway it would have probably been disturbingly celebratory. Not to mention the awkwardness of trying to save face at the microphone. Even the limp Kristen Stewart walked with was weird to behold, and the online response was savage.
But Lawrence? She gets up to the mic, to a standing ovation, and both downplays her own achievement and addresses her fall, by pointing out they wouldn’t have stood for her if she hadn’t made a fool out of herself on the way up. This is masterful, man.
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