Jennifer Lawrence, the star of the film "Die My Love," revealed in an interview with The New Yorker the underlying reasons for her growing disdain towards the press. Recalling a conversation with Viola Davis, she shared, "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 the topic of Lawrence's past interviews came up, she responded with a sigh, "Oh, no. So hyper. So embarrassing." The Oscar winner was once beloved by fans for her quirky and authentic nature, but online sentiment began to shift against her, with some claiming her personality was faux.
"Well, it was my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism," Lawrence explained. "It was like, 'I'm not like that! I poop my pants every day!'" She cited Ariana Grande's 2016 impersonation of herself on Saturday Night Live as a moment she found herself "annoying."
"I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying," she added. "I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying. Ariana Grande's impression of me on SNL was spot-on." Despite this, Lawrence said the backlash made her feel "uninhabitable," noting that she felt "rejected" for her own "personality" at the time.
"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," she explained. The Hunger Games actress has been candid in discussing the evolution of her career, revealing that she parted ways with her former agency, CAA, as she felt she was viewed more as a "celebrity than an actor" and was "cut off from my creativity, my imagination."
"I found out that a lot of filmmakers that I really loved and admired had scripts that weren't even reaching me," Lawrence told The New York Times in 2022. "I had let myself be hijacked." During The Hollywood Reporter's 2022 actress roundtable, Lawrence addressed feeling "hijacked" in her career, noting that she was with a "big agency" but also felt like she "was just losing touch with the world a little bit."
"I was working so much, and so much of what we do has to do with observing people. I felt like I couldn't really observe anyone because everybody was observing me," she explained. "And so, taking a few years and getting back to life, I feel like I can be creative again in that sense."
