- Jennifer Lawrence revealed why she wore flip-flops on the 2023 Cannes Film Festival red carpet.
- She told Entertainment Tonight it wasn't a political statement — her shoes were just too big.
Jennifer Lawrence wasn't trying to make a statement with her casual footwear at $4.
The 32-year-old actor $4 after she walked the "Anatomy of a Fall" red carpet on May 21 wearing a red Christian Dior gown paired with black thong flip-flops.
The Cannes Film Festival has a strict dress code that $4 on the red carpet. But while stars like $4 and $4 have famously ditched their shoes in protest, Lawrence $4 that she was unaware of the controversy surrounding flats at the event.
"I was not making a political statement, not that I wouldn't," she told ET's Nischelle Turner in an interview published on Thursday. "I had no idea until it like, came out that there was a whole controversy with people wearing flats, or like, walking down the red carpet barefoot. I had no clue. My shoes were a size too big."
The "No Hard Feelings" star, who has had $4 before, also told Turner that she changed out of her heels and into flat shoes to avoid tumbling down the stairs.
"I wore heels going up, but then I forgot to take a picture with my production team, Excellent Cadaver," she said. "So, we had to take an Excellent Cadaver picture, and I knew I would eat shit if I went down in the shoes that were a size too big. I put on the flip-flops, and then everybody's like, 'What a statement! Wow!'"
"I'm all for making a statement," she added. "I just would want it to be on purpose."