US EditionJennifer Lawrence Admits She Was ‘Annoying’ in Early Interviews, Talks Being Rejected for Her Personality | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Jennifer Lawrence discusses losing creative control due to media pressure and agency issues before regaining it, praising Ariana Grande's accurate Saturday Night Live impression of her.
- On October 28, 2025, Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence said she loses control over her artistic expression in press, called her early interviews embarrassing, and praised Ariana Grande's 2016 SNL impersonation as spot-on.
- After parting with CAA, Creative Artists Agency, Lawrence said she felt treated more as a celebrity than an actor and missed scripts from filmmakers she admired, cutting off her creativity.
- Lawrence said she had let her career be hijacked while signed to a big agency, losing creative control, describing how constant work and fame distanced her from real life and stifled creativity before taking a break to recover.
- That backlash left Lawrence feeling rejected for her personality and made public life feel uninhabitable at times, and she explained her earlier behavior was a defense mechanism, the interviews referenced earlier showed.
- Now she limits interviews to protect her craft, telling Viola Davis she often thinks `I can't do this to myself again'; her candor resonates amid online sentiment and backlash.
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"I lose so much control over my craft when I have to do press": Jennifer Lawrence
Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has opened up about her uneasy relationship with the media, saying she feels she loses control over her artistic expression whenever she has to do press interviews, according to The Hollywood Reporter.
Jennifer Lawrence Once Told Viola Davis “I Lose So Much Control Over My Craft When I Have to Do Press”
The Oscar winner also reflected on her past interviews, calling herself “annoying” and calling Ariana Grande’s 2016 impersonation of herself on ‘SNL’ “spot-on.”
Jennifer Lawrence Admits She Was ‘Annoying’ in Early Interviews, Talks Being Rejected for Her Personality | Just Jared: Celebrity News and Gossip
Jennifer Lawrence is looking back at early interviews from her career and admits that she thinks she was “annoying” back then. The Oscar-winning actress won over a lot of fans at the beginning of her career thanks to her fun personality in interviews, but people eventually turned on her, accusing her of being fake. In a new interview with The New Yorker, Jennifer says that her early interviews were “so hyper. So embarrassing.” Keep reading to fi…
Jennifer Lawrence on her older press interviews: ‘So embarrassing’ – KS95 94.5
Jennifer Lawrence says she is embarrassed by some of her early press interviews. In a recent interview with The New Yorker, the actress said she cringes watching her moments with the press from the earlier days of her career. “Oh, no. So hyper. So embarrassing,” Lawrence said of those interviews. She went into more detail about why she feels this way. “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” Lawrence…
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