Remember in the mid-2010s when Jennifer Lawrence was the butt of nearly every cultural joke? The actress recently opened up about being hesitant to speak to the press to promote her work ever since the public turned on her so distinctly about a decade ago.
“Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” the Hunger Games and X-Men star told The New Yorker in a recent interview about her candidness. “And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’ … 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, SNL did a Celebrity Family Feud sketch in which Grande played Lawrence and channeled her persona with lines like, “I’m just, like, a snackaholic. I mean, I love Pringles. If no one’s looking, I’ll eat, like, a whole can.” The addition of Grande’s Lawrence to the sketch was obviously timely and the public ate it up — much like they did with any opportunity to criticize Lawrence at the time.
The performer, who is currently on a press junket promoting her new film Die My Love, added: “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 also called her old interviews, in which she lays the self-depreciating comedy on thick, “so hyper” and “so embarrassing.”
This isn’t the first time the actor has opened up about the public scrutiny and backlash she faced after making a whopping 16 movies in six years and seeing several of them fail at the box office. That naturally created a gateway for the world to poke fun at Lawrence and her candidness relentlessly at the time.
“I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right,” she told Vanity Fair in 2021. “If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’”
She added at the time: “I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. Nobody’s mad.’ And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul.”
Lawrence is currently starring in Lynne Ramsay’s latest project, Die My Love, opposite Robert Pattinson. The film arrives in theaters on November 7 and will most likely be available on Mubi’s streaming app at a later date.
Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.
Lex Briscuso is a film and television critic and a freelance entertainment writer for IGN. You can follow her on Twitter at @nikonamerica.
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