Amy Schumer Fact-Checks Jennifer Lawrence’s Interview Quotes
America’s kid sister Amy Schumer, as she’s referred to on the cover of Vanity Fair — though that feels like an ill-conceived tagline, given that Schumer is more like America’s cool older sister, educating us in the ways of love, life, sex, and good humor — is close friends with Jennifer Lawrence, who actually is America’s kid sister, as everyone knows. So the magazine decided to put Schumer in the hot seat, having her audit Lawrence’s interview quotes.
So how honest is ole Jen Larry in interviews? Pretty straightforward, as it turns out. Schumer has some qualms with a couple of Lawrence’s answers — “She’s never said sorry to me,” Schumer says. The pair also tell the story of how they officially met and became soulmates. As it turns out, it was all a cold call; Lawrence saw and liked Trainwreck and emailed Schumer. Now the two are writing their own project together.
Party girls Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Schumer dance on Billy Joel’s piano. (Photo: Getty Images)
However, the pièce de résistance comes when Schumer lets us in on a little pastime of Lawrence’s: urinating in bidets.
“That girl, if she sees a bidet, she’s gonna piss in it,” Schumer jokes. “No, she’s very clean and she’s great and bidets are for washing your a**hole and not peeing in them. They’re for something way more regal than peeing in.”
Schumer shows off her more serious side in VF’s accompanying cover story, where she talks about picking up the mantle of preventing gun violence, after a mentally ill drifter shot and killed two people in a Louisiana theater during a showing of her movie Trainwreck last year.
Schumer says she learned of the incident from her publicist, and was initially concerned that a “sex tape [had surfaced] or something.”
“And then she told me there had been this shooting.” Schumer paused again, her eyes moistening. “It really … I don’t know. It’s like when the Dark Knight shooting happened, and in Paris. The idea of people trying to go out and have a good time — you know, like looking forward to it? — I don’t know why that makes me the saddest.” She was crying now, but speaking in a steady voice. “So my publicist told me. And then I put on the news. I was by myself in a hotel, and I was just like, I wish I never wrote that movie.” She knew intellectually that she had nothing to do with the shooting, but friends who reached out and tried to comfort her, telling her the shooting wasn’t her “fault,” only made it worse. “I just felt helpless and stupid,” she said.
Schumer has since partnered with her second cousin once removed New York Senator Chuck Schumer to promote legislation he’s proposed which would close background check loopholes.
Amy Schumer covers Vanity Fair (Photo: Vanity Fair)
Schumer also weighs the costs and benefits of her newfound status on the A-list. She says it’s not a major theme of the just-begun fourth season of Inside Amy Schumer, but then again the season’s promotional material shows her being x-rayed on a red carpet with the tagline “Overexposed.”
“It’s all f**king crazy,” she says, the it being her fame, the attention, and each of her Instagrams being spun into a 24-hour news cycle. “I feel like right now I’m going to crack down and keep myself more private for that reason. Which feels, you know, kind of counterintuitive as a comic. But I don’t know — it seems necessary.”
She continues: “I want to be honest about what’s going on with me. And not be like, ‘I’m still just like you!’ I don’t know. I’m trying to navigate it honestly and figure it out.”
