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{About her role in Winter’s Bone} Debra Granik, the director of Winter’s Bone, thought that Lawrence was too pretty for the gritty role of Ree Dolly. “They told me that my look wasn’t right,” Jennifer said, “And my agent acted like that was the end of it. I said, ‘It’s not.’ I flew to New York that night and auditioned again. I made them see me. And I apparently looked pretty bad from flying on the red-eye—my look didn’t seem wrong anymore.” Lawrence paused. “There are actresses who build themselves, and then there are actresses who are built by others,” she said. “I want to build myself.”

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