Jennifer Lawrence: Being called 'bratty' proved a Hollywood point

Bryan Alexander | USA TODAY

Jennifer Lawrence says she did not mind when she was called "bratty" for a recent essay she penned about the treatment of women in Hollywood and pay inequality.

In fact, Lawrence believes the "bratty" comment proved her point.

At a press conference Saturday for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay -- Part 2, Lawrence said she wrote the essay "Why Do I Make Less Than My Male Co‑Stars?" to show how hard it is to be a woman and talk about inequality and salaries in general. Because people take shots at you just for saying it.

"I hoped to just write about my own fears of how am I going to be portrayed? Or how am I going to look? How will people judge me? Obviously the men in the movie don’t think that way."

So the fact that the website Redstate.com published a story calling "Jennifer Lawrence’s complaint a bratty display from a wealthy youngster" only fueled Lawrence's own argument, in her own mind.

Said Lawrence:

"Even after I wrote it, I don’t remember the website, but they called it 'Jennifer Lawrence’s bratty display.' And I was like, 'Thank you for completely making my point.' If a woman speaks up, is assertive and has a voice, she’s going to be called 'a brat.' I don’t see a man being called 'a brat.' "

Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobson agreed that "what Jen spoke to, I found really powerful. You don't want or feel entitled to be a spokesperson as a woman."