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At the peak of Jennifer Lawrence’s fame, it seemed like people couldn’t get enough of her offbeat humor and outspoken persona. Privately, though, she was always waiting for the backlash. “It feels precarious. It’s going to come down. That’s just the nature of things.”
In 2018, Lawrence took a step back from acting and did some soul-searching, during which she says she grew up. She got married, had two children and took the time to read and think.
Lawrence spoke with Lulu Garcia-Navarro about her “mutual breakup” with the public and the press and her love for her work on “The Interview.” Watch, read or listen to the full conversation at the link in bio.
Transcript
Sort of persona in the world has sometimes been viewed as, like, too loud, too much, and has sort of faced backlash, and also people are charmed by it. And I was wondering, now looking back at that era, like, what do you think about how you were perceived and how you sort of interacted with the public as you were coming up when you were younger? I mean, now that I'm in my thirties and a mom, I can see that how young I was. Like, when when I meet a 23 year old now I mean, think about a 23 year old. They're they're children. I remember when I was no when I was nominated for silver linings and somebody was like, everybody loves you. What does that feel like? And I was like, they it feels like precarious. You no? Like, I'm waiting for it because, like, it's not you no, it's going to come down. That's best, like, the nature of things. And then I fell getting my Oscar. And then the next year, I was waving to rank, and I tripped on a cone. And I remember being like, that's that's it. Like, nobody's gonna believe that. Nobody's gonna believe that I fell two years in a row. I did. Because after you tripped on your Oscar, people said That I faked it. That you faked it. Yeah. I didn't. Everybody just kind of thought that meant everything that I did was fake, and it was, like, all a shtick. This is how it felt to me. Yeah. I mean, you you said at that moment that you felt that other people had gotten sick of you, and you had gotten sick of worse. And I'm interested in that you had gotten sick of yourself. What did that mean? I I just was sick of doing this Yeah. And doing interviews is really scary. Like, I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky. I'm very grateful. I have a great job, but it's terrifying. I needed a break from it. People needed a break from it, and then I took a break and enjoyed the break. It was a mutual breakup.
