It’s hard to pinpoint when exactly Jennifer Lawrence “broke out” and became a defining actress of her generation.
Was it when she took on the role of Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, the other film franchise inspired by a young adult novel series outside of Harry Potter that anyone actually cared about? Was it when she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for Winter’s Bone, a film that surprisingly snuck into the Best Picture race? Was it when she joined a comic book franchise with her role as Mystique, who transformed a quintessential X-Men anti-hero in X-Men: First Class into the emotional crux of the series by the time that Dark Phoenix came out? It’s hard to pinpoint exactly when Jennifer Lawrence truly became the household name she is today, but her collaborations with Bradley Cooper were also crucial stepping stones on her path toward mega-stardom.
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