Jennifer Lawrence is not a fan of her early work; not movies such as Winter’s Bone and The Hunger Games, but the interviews she did to promote those projects.
“I felt — I didn’t feel, I was, I think — rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality,” Lawrence said in a New Yorker profile published Monday.
She recalled appearing “so hyper” and “so embarrassing,” yet authentic.
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“Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” Lawrence said, explaining that her fame had always felt fake. “And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!'”
Now 35, Lawrence began acting as a teenager, appearing on TV series such as Cold Case, Medium, and The Bill Engvall Show, before breaking out in movies. By the time she was in her early 20s, she was huge — the star of a major franchise and an Oscar winner, for her work in 2012’s Silver Linings Playbook.
But Lawrence was trying to navigate life as a movie star, including the paparazzi and all that came with it. So she was really uncomfortable.
“I was young, I lived alone, I was being chased,” Lawrence said. She also recalled being “pissed.”
She shared, “I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying. I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying. Ariana Grande’s impression of me on SNL was spot-on.”
In 2016, the future Wicked star spoofed Lawrence in one of the show’s games of Celebrity Family Feud. She claimed to be a snack-aholic who sometimes eats an entire can of Pringles all at once.
Lawrence noted that she saw some of the hate online.
“There was one time, after I won the Oscar, that Justine [Ciarrocchi, her partner in her production company] and I couldn’t stop laughing — this was when we could still laugh about it — because someone just wrote, ‘She is a pig who should die,'” she recalled.
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Jennifer Lawrence does an interview in 2011
At least she was able to have a sense of humor about it.
Lawrence, who married art gallery director Cooke Maroney in 2019, has two young sons, Louie and Cy. Her next movie is the suspenseful Die My Love, about a mother struggling with psychosis. It costars Robert Pattinson, Sissy Spacek, LaKeith Stanfield, and Nick Nolte.
Die My Love arrives in theaters Nov. 7.
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