Jennifer Lawrence recently reflected on how speaking to the press has affected her sense of control over her work—and how she feels about her past public persona.
In a candid conversation with The New Yorker, the Die,
My Love star recalled telling Viola Davis, “Every time I do an interview, I
think, ‘I can’t do this to myself again.’ I feel like I lose so much control
over my craft when I have to do press for a movie.”
When asked about her earlier interviews, Lawrence admitted
she finds them “so hyper” and “embarrassing.” Once celebrated for her
down-to-earth charm, the Oscar winner noticed that public opinion eventually
shifted, with some accusing her of faking her relatable personality.
“Well, it was my real personality—but also a defense
mechanism,” she said. “It was a way of saying, ‘I’m not like that! I’m messy
and weird!’”
She also mentioned Ariana Grande’s 2016 Saturday Night
Live impression of her, saying, “I look back at those interviews and think,
that person is annoying. I totally get why people thought so. Ariana Grande’s
impression of me was spot-on.”
The backlash, Lawrence admitted, was painful. “I felt
rejected—not for my movies or my politics, but for who I was as a person,” she
explained.
Over the years, Lawrence has spoken openly about her career
evolution. She revealed she left her former agency, CAA, after feeling she was
being treated more as a celebrity than an artist, saying she felt “cut off from
my creativity and imagination.”
In a 2022 interview with The New York Times, she
shared that she discovered many filmmakers she admired had scripts that never
reached her desk. “I had let myself be hijacked,” she said.
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