Just six years ago, Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t sure if she would ever get married. Then she was set up with art gallery director Cooke Maroney – “The best person I’ve ever met” – and everything changed.
Spending some time thinking about what she’d want in a forever partner, Jennifer Lawrence came up with an actual list. And we have to admit, it’s relatable AF.
“Somebody that has the same taste in reality TV,” she detailed to Vanity Fair in 2014, her preferred viewing including Shark Tank, Real Housewives, Dance Moms and Intervention. And somebody not afraid to, uh, let loose with some of life’s imperfections, a partner, as she put it, who “isn’t afraid to fart in front of me [rather] than to have big, passionate love. [Those relationships] are deeper because you can be your true self with somebody, and somebody can be their true self with you.”
Most of all, she summed up, she’d like a peacekeeper type. “I don’t like fighting, and I find argumentative people the most annoying people on the planet,” she noted. “Like, why do you still want to be fighting? It’s just unattractive.”
Besides, should she meet this reality TV – loving, laid-back unicorn, she knew there’d be no need for such knock-down, drag-out conflicts. “I can’t wait to be married,” she told Vogue in 2015. “I feel like if I find that one person who I want to spend the rest of my life with, who I want to be the father of my children, that I would absolutely not f – k it up.”
So far the odds have been forever in her favor, the 31-year-old actress and husband of nearly two years, Cooke Maroney, now expecting their first child together.
Save for the recent drop of the trailer for Don’t Look Up, her December Netflix release, we actually haven’t heard much from Lawrence of late, always a good thing for the Oscar winner who prefers to take a break from public duties in between filming box-office mega franchises and collecting trophies. “It’s not healthy to realize how many people are actually looking and listening to you,” she mused during a 2017 installment of Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series. “That is such a mindf–k.”
So she’s limited her recent public statements to just those in support of Represent.Us, a campaign finance reform organization that counts her as a board member, signing on to Twitter to deliver a handful of messages about the need to reform the criminal justice system and the importance of voting.
And with much of Hollywood shut down due to COVID-19 last year, the Kentucky native, who once told Vanity Fair she hated the idea of “waking up with nothing to do or going to sleep without accomplishing anything,” busied herself by putting together a slate of projects – including Don’t Look Up, the lead role in the Elizabeth Holmes biopic Bad Blood and next year’s Red, White and Water.
That left her nights free during the height of last year’s stay-at-home orders to make use of the pasta machine, pizza stone and Le Crueset dutch oven she and Maroney, director of the New York contemporary art gallery Gladstone 64, registered for ahead of their vows in October 2019 (“I love trying new recipes,” she shared on her Amazon wishlist) and break out her Riedel wine glasses for her nightly serving of red.
“I’m trying to wait until 6 p.m.,” she explained to friend Amy Schumer of her quarantine drinking habits on a May 2020 episode of Schumer’s Food Network series, “so I have, like, a preemptive beer at 5.”
Which made answering his February 2019 proposal fairly easy, despite previous assertions that she likely wouldn’t wed.
“I definitely wasn’t at a place where I was like ‘I’m ready to get married.’ I just met Cooke, and I wanted to marry him,” she explained of her change of heart. “We wanted to marry each other.”