Jennifer Lawrence has a special hand gesture for everyone who doesn't understand 'mother!'

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Jennifer Lawrence has a special hand gesture for everyone who doesn't understand 'mother!'
NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 21: Actress Jennifer Lawrence and director Darren Aronofsky attend an official Academy screening of MOTHER! hosted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at MOMA - Celeste Bartos Theater on September 21, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ) Credit: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for The Academy of

When your highly anticipated, and critically acclaimed, film gets hit with an 'F' score on audience polling site CinemaScore, there's nothing much you can do besides flip the bird at the cynics.

Take it from Jennifer Lawrence, who did just that on Thursday.

The actress was joined by director (and her current bae) Darren Aronofsky at a Q&A after a mother! screening at The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences in New York City, and a photographer captured the moment she responded to someone with her middle finger.

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NEW YORK, NY - SEPTEMBER 21: Actress Jennifer Lawrence and director Darren Aronofsky attend an official Academy screening of MOTHER! hosted by The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences at MOMA - Celeste Bartos Theater on September 21, 2017 in New York City. (Photo by Robin Marchant/Getty Images for The Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences ) Credit: Getty Images for The Academy of

While it's unclear exactly at what, who or why she flipped off the crowd, it got Aronofsky giggling up a storm.

“How, if you walk out of this movie, are you not going to give it an ‘F?’ It’s a punch. It’s a total punch,” he said at during the discussion according to Deadline. "We always knew it was a strong cocktail... Whatever you believe, it doesn’t matter. But there’s power in those stories because we can relate to them and they have different types of meanings for different types of people."

"So I wanted to howl. And this was my howl. And some people are not going to want to listen to it. That’s cool," he continued.

Take that, haters.

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