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Jennifer Lawrence has no hard feelings towards the public. In fact, the actress, 35, told The New Yorker that she is cautious to do press while promoting her projects due to how she acted in old interviews. Lawrence recalled telling Viola Davis, “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.” “Oh, no,” she noted. “So hyper. So embarrassing.” At first, fans loved her authentic and self-deprecating disposition, but soon felt like she was putting on an act. “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” Lawrence explained about her off the cuff moments. “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, the singer, 32, impersonated the actress in a “Celebrity Family Feud” sketch on the late-night show. Grande would blurt out 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.” Lawrence admitted to the New Yorker that the public scrutiny was “uninhabitable. ” “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 shared. Lawrence rose to fame in 2010 after “Winter’s Bone.” Shortly after she starred in “The Hunger Games” franchise and “Silver Linings Playbook” — which earned her an Academy Award. The Oscar winner recalled to the outlet that during that time, paparazzi used to follow her while she drove through Los Angeles. Lawrence felt like she was overwhelmed doing press for too many films. The mom of two quipped that before her New Yorker interview, her mouth guard got stuck inside her mouth. “Can you imagine?” she confessed. “After ten years of being, like, ‘I used to be folksy, but everyone thought everything was a shtick,’ then I show up for my first day of this,” she said, mimicking someone wearing a mouth guard. “I was, like, I will do anything to prevent this from happening. It would be like if I tripped and fell on my way into the room.” Lawrence has previously spoken about taking a hiatus from Hollywood, where she married Cooke Maroney in 2019 and welcomed son Cy and a second son, whose name is rumored to be Louie. The star told Vanity Fair in 2021: “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. If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’” “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,’” Lawrence stated. “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.” While on “The Graham Norton Show,” Lawrence revealed she “was at peace” if she didn’t return to acting. She added that Hollywood “is a lot. … I think I would have been [okay], but also I would’ve been really upset. I don’t know.” In 2013, Lawrence fell at the Oscars while trying to get up the steps to accept her award for Best Actress for “Silver Linings Playbook.” Some critics felt like the dramatic fall was staged. Then, while on “The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon,” Lawrence recalled the time when she was talking to who she thought was Elizabeth Taylor. She recounted the older actress coming up to her and being nice. “In my head, I just went, ‘This is Elizabeth Taylor,'” Lawrence elaborated, “The whole time she’s talking to me, I’m going, ‘Oh my God, this is Elizabeth Taylor.'” She told Fallon, 51, that she gushed over the women’s movies and fashion before telling her friend she just met Elizabeth Taylor. Lawrence’s pal informed the star that the legendary icon died in 2011. The actress also told Fallon that after she met director Francis Ford Coppola at a restaurant in Paris, “I went back to my table, and [I realized] my entire dress was unzipped, and my thong was out.” “So I’m barefoot, and my whole ass was out. I thought the shoes were going to be the problem.” Lawrence has also gone barefoot while on “The Late Show With Stephen Colbert,” and called “Vanderpump Rules” star Lala Kent a derogatory term while on “Watch What Happens Live With Andy Cohen.” Despite past viral mishaps, Lawrence is back in Hollywood, doing press for her and Robert Pattinson’s new psychodrama “Die My Love.”
