Jennifer Lawrence said Sunday she walked up to Robert De Niro in the middle of her wedding in 2019 and flatly told him to leave.
Lawrence said she was worried that he wasn’t having a good time, and felt she should release him to be elsewhere, without obligation. “I looked over and I saw Bob, who doesn’t know anybody and he’s kind of wandering around, and I immediately was like, ‘No, this isn’t what he wants to be doing. I don’t want him here,” Lawrence told E! News during a red-carpet interview at the Golden Globes on Sunday.
WEST HOLLYWOOD, CA – JANUARY 27: Actor Robert De Niro (L) and actress Jennifer Lawrence attend The Weinstein Company’s SAG Awards After Party Presented By FIJI Water at Sunset Tower on January 27, 2013 in West Hollywood, California. (Photo by Charley Gallay/Getty Images for TWC)
Lawrence explained how she observed her good friend, De Niro’s behavior, and felt that he may have been uncomfortable in some way.
“So I went over and whispered, I was like, ‘Go home,’ and he was nice — he like talked to my parents and was polite — but I was like, ‘Go,'” she told E! News.
De Niro ultimately ended up leaving her rehearsal dinner after her comment.
“That just genuinely made me feel better,” she said.
Lawrence admitted that her wedding to husband Cooke Maroney made her realize that being a bride was “awful.” She noted that she was overly concerned about whether or not her guests were having a good time, and ended up stressing about that too much.
LOS ANGELES, CA – JANUARY 27: Actor Robert De Niro (R) presents actress Jennifer Lawrence the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Leading Role for ‘Silver Linings Playbook’ onstage during the 19th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards held at The Shrine Auditorium on January 27, 2013 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)
“I’ll never forget — I was freaking out about the guests being cold, and all of my friends were lying. They’re like, ‘Nobody’s cold, nobody’s cold, everything’s fine, everything’s fine,'” she said, according to E!News.
She said she missed the fun she was supposed to have at her own event, because she was worried about other people enjoying themselves.
“You’re not having fun. You’re just like, ‘Is that person having fun?” she recalled.(RELATED: ‘I Was Not Making A Political Statement’: Jennifer Lawrence Sets The Record Straight On Her Fashion Fail)
Lawrence’s big day was a star-studded celebration that took place in Newport, Rhode Island. She and Maroney welcomed their first child in 2022.