Jennifer Lawrence has shared her deep-seated fears about releasing films and facing potential backlash in a recent V magazine interview. Promoting her latest project 'Die My Love,' the actress described the process as 'awful' and emotionally draining. She highlighted how past experiences of hard work met with criticism continue to haunt her.
Interview Insights
In her candid conversation with V magazine, Jennifer Lawrence reflected on the emotional toll of bringing a movie to the public eye. 'The experience only adds to the dread, because I’ve had so many experiences of working so hard on something, loving something so deeply, and then releasing it to the world, and the world just being like, “Boo! Hate you!” It is so awful,' she said. Despite the anxiety, Lawrence noted that she often forgets this phase during production: 'And [yet] somehow, I read a script, I meet with the director, we get on set, we start doing it, and somehow I’m able to forget that this part of the process will happen. I mean, I’m very blessed and very lucky. But it’s a very scary few months.'
She shared a lighthearted anecdote about discussing her worries with her husband, who lacks extensive industry experience. 'My husband was so confused because he doesn’t have as much experience with this stuff,' Lawrence explained. 'So I was telling him about my anxiety, and he was like, “But the movie’s incredible.” And I was like, “I know, but that doesn’t matter. People might not get it.” And he was like, “But they’re wrong.” Like, as if that was supposed to make me feel better.'
Film Promotion and Background
Lawrence is currently on the press circuit for 'Die My Love,' a drama directed by Lynne Ramsay. In the film, she portrays a new mother spiraling into psychosis, with Robert Pattinson as her unsupportive husband. The movie is now playing in theaters nationwide.
This interview builds on Lawrence's recent openness about her career challenges. In a 2021 Vanity Fair piece, she discussed taking a two-year Hollywood hiatus because 'everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me.' Last month, in The New Yorker, she addressed public rejection of her earlier persona, calling it a 'defense mechanism' that came across as 'annoying.' 'Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,' she clarified. '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.'