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In the 2010s, Jennifer Lawrence was everywhere. Her continuous stream of major movies helped make her Hollywood’s highest-paid female actor for two consecutive years in 2015 and 2016. Similarly, the press tours for those movies helped make her a beloved celebrity personality.  Bravo / Getty Images
And if the commercial success wasn’t enough, she also bagged four Oscar nominations between 2011 and 2016 — along with a win for Best Actress for Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, when she was just 22 years old.
At the height of her fame, Jennifer was lauded for her candor and quick wit on press runs, which set her apart from her peers and provided us with countless hilarious interview moments, now living on in TikTok and YouTube compilations. But after years of back-to-back promo tours, magazine covers, and box office hits, the tide began to turn on J.Law.  ABC News / Via youtu.be
“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?’...I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence.”
It’s a tale as old as time: A successful woman becomes too successful, and suddenly the world doesn’t want to hear from her anymore. The backlash led Jennifer to take a break from acting, during which time she got married and became a mom. And since her big return, it’s fair to say that she’s adopted a more low-key approach to fame to protect herself and her family from more public scrutiny. Karwai Tang / Getty Images
Now, promoting her new movie, Die My Love, J.Law spoke with the New Yorker about her past interviews, calling the younger version of herself in those clips “hyper” and “embarrassing.” “I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying,” she said. “I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying.” Christopher Polk / Getty Images
“Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism. And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’” she explained.
Notably, Jennifer name-dropped a memorable impression that Ariana Grande did of her during a 2016 Saturday Night Live episode, describing the impersonation as “spot-on.” In the “Celebrity Family Feud” sketch, Ari mocked J.Law\“s style of self-deprecating humor and tendency to discuss food in interviews, saying: “I’m just, like, a snackaholic. I mean, I love Pringles. If no one’s looking, I’ll eat, like, a whole can.” NBC / Saturday Night Live / Via youtu.be
Playing into public sentiment at the time, the SNL writers also joked about Jennifer’s perceived habit of emphasizing her relatability. At one point, Ariana says in character as Jen: “They told me not to do a game show, but screw it, I can have fun. I’m a regular person.” To this, Kenan Thompson, playing Steve Harvey, replied: “You say you’re a regular person more than any regular person I know.”
Looking back on the “uninhabitable” public backlash she was at the receiving end of, Jennifer explained: “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.” James Devaney / Getty Images
I don’t know about you, but that last quote actually made me super sad. As Jennifer’s new interview has gained attention, people are reexamining the hatred and how much she seems to have internalized the negativity. One X post about the interview with over 160,000 likes reads: “stop hating on your younger self bitch she was genuinely funny.” Someone else echoed the same point, writing: “I hate when a bad bitch apologizes for being fucking awesome.” Kevin Winter / Getty Images
Others talked about how watching her old press interviews remains a “top tier past time,” while someone else suggested that “society doesn\“t want women to have vibrant, funny, or loud personalities.” Matt Crossick - Pa Images / Getty Images
“she was being real back then and it was rare to see such personalities shine,” said another user. “the silliness was the VIBE back then and she perfectly read the room,” someone else added. “I understand she’d grow out of it but for her to look down on herself like that makes me so sad. everybody LOVED her.”
“stop hating on your old self,” a fan demanded, reminding her that she was/is “incredibly funny, immensely talented & beautiful.”
Straight-up disagreeing with what Jen said about her younger self being “annoying,“ someone else recalled that “the public ate her personality up until she got so popular that their need to ‘humble’ her kicked in.” Others compared how this also happened to Anne Hathaway, with the whole “Hathahate” era: “They love you one minute, hate you the next!!” Jason Merritt / Getty Images
The trend of tearing down famous women in Hollywood is genuinely miserable, and I’m glad fans are able to remember J.Law’s younger self for the hilarious and outspoken star she was. Let’s just hope she remembers that, too! You can find her full New Yorker interview here.
More on this
- Public Scrutiny Destroyed Jennifer Lawrence. Now She Wants To Win Us Back. Ellen Durney · March 9, 2023
- “We’ll Never See An Era Like That Again”: Mikey Madison’s Oscar Win Has People Reexamining Just How Young Jennifer Lawrence Was At The Height Of Her Fame Ellen Durney · March 4, 2025
- Margot Robbie Said She Hopes To Take “A Little While Away” From Acting Because “Everybody’s Probably Sick” Of Her After “Barbie,” And It’s Reminding People Of Jennifer Lawrence Ellen Durney · Jan. 11, 2024
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发表于 2025-10-29 08:39:34