• Jennifer Lawrence revealed why she wore flip-flops on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition purple carpet.
• She informed Leisure Tonight it wasn’t a political assertion — her footwear had been simply too huge.
• She mentioned she modified out of heels and into flip-flips to keep away from falling down the steps. 

Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t making an attempt to make a press release together with her informal footwear on the 2023 Cannes Movie Competition.

The 32-year-old actor set the web abuzz after she walked the “Anatomy of a Fall” purple carpet on Could 21 carrying a purple Christian Dior robe paired with black thong flip-flops.

The Cannes Movie Competition has a strict costume code that requires ladies to put on heels on the purple carpet. However whereas stars like Julia Roberts and Kristen Stewart have famously ditched their footwear in protest, Lawrence revealed to Leisure Tonight that she was unaware of the controversy surrounding flats on the occasion. 

“I used to be not making a political assertion, not that I would not,” she informed ET’s Nischelle Turner in an interview printed on Thursday. “I had no concept till it like, got here out that there was an entire controversy with individuals carrying flats, or like, strolling down the purple carpet barefoot. I had no clue. My footwear had been a measurement too huge.”

The “No Onerous Emotions” star, who has had run-ins on the purple carpet earlier than, additionally informed Turner that she modified out of her heels and into flat footwear to keep away from tumbling down the steps. 

“I wore heels going up, however then I forgot to take an image with my manufacturing crew, Glorious Cadaver,” she mentioned. “So, we needed to take an Glorious Cadaver image, and I knew I’d eat shit if I went down within the footwear that had been a measurement too huge. I placed on the flip-flops, after which everyone’s like, ‘What a press release! Wow!’”

“I am all for making a press release,” she added. “I simply would need it to be on goal.”