Jennifer Lawrence Explains Real Reason For Flip-Flops At Cannes

Jennifer Lawrence is speaking out about what some say is her protest against the Cannes Film Festival dress code.

The Hunger Games star, praised for wearing flip-flops in defiance of the festival’s rules for women to wear high heels, told Entertainment Tonight that she had no intention of protesting and just wanted to deal with a wardrobe malfunction.

“I wasn’t making a political statement, not that I didn’t want to,” she told ET on Thursday. “I had no idea until it came out that there was a whole controversy with people wearing flats or walking the red carpet barefoot. I had no idea.”

“My shoes were a size too big,” she continued.

Lawrence said she didn’t know Julia Roberts walked the red carpet barefoot in 2016 to defy the unspoken rules. Nor did he know that Kristen Stewart ditched her Christian Louboutins in 2018, or that Cate Blanchett would leave her shoes at home hours after Lawrence walked the red carpet in flip-flops.

Lawrence was attending a screening of Bread and Roses, a documentary about women under Taliban rule that she produced, when her flip-flops made headlines. Unaware of the heels’ protest, she said she just wanted to take a photo — and didn’t want a repeat of past stumbles.

“I forgot to take a picture with my production team, excellent troupe,” she said. “So we had to get an excellent photo of a corpse and I knew I was going to eat crap if I went down in shoes that were a size too big.”

“I put the flip-flops on,” she continued. “And then everyone’s like, ‘What a statement! Aha!'”

Lawrence failed at the 2013 Oscars while accepting her statue — and did it again the following year. She is currently promoting No Hard Feelings, a raunchy sex comedy in which her character is hired by two worried parents to “meet” their inexperienced son.

Even in flip flops, Lawrence stunned in a cherry red Christian Dior couture dress at Cannes.

The star said she’s “ready to make a statement” but would prefer to do so “on purpose.”