Actress Jennifer Lawrence has revealed the toll her sudden rise to fame took on her a decade ago, saying she felt like she had lost control of her own life.
“I think I lost my sense of control,” Lawrence reportedly told British broadcaster Francine Stock at the London Film Festival over the weekend. variety.
“Between The Hunger Games Coming out and winning the Oscar, I became such a huge commodity that I felt like every decision was a big, big group decision. When I think back now, I can’t help but think about the following years. (Because there was) just a loss of control.”
Lawrence won her Oscar for Best Actress for her role in Silver Linings Playbook in 2013, and was subsequently nominated again by Happiness in 2016.
The first of four hunger games films was released in 2012, when he was 20 years old.
Lawrence did not appear in any films between X-Men: Dark Phoenix in 2019 and Don’t look up last year.
Since then, he seems to have regained his enthusiasm for acting.
“It feels personal for the first time in a long time,” he told Stock.
Lawrence, now 32, made the remarks during one of the festival’s “Screen Talk” events on Saturday local time. He was in London for his role in the new film roadwhich tells the story of a soldier who struggles after returning home.
This is the second time Lawrence has opened publicly in recent weeks. talking with Vogue for her October cover story, she talked about becoming a mother and the effect it may have on her career going forward.
Lawrence married art dealer Cooke Maroney in 2019 and the couple welcomed a baby boy in February this year.
“I’ve had a pretty consistent theme in all my films since I was 18,” he said Vogue.
“I’m curious if, now that I’m older and have a baby, I’ll eventually get out of it.
“It’s very scary to talk about motherhood. Just because it’s so different for everyone. If I say it was amazing from the beginning, some people will think, “It wasn’t amazing for me at first,” and they’ll feel bad.
“Luckily I have so many girlfriends who were honest. Who said, ‘It’s scary. You might not connect right away. You might not fall in love right away. So I felt ready to forgive. I remember walking with one of my best friends at nine months and I said, ‘Everyone keeps saying I’m going to love my baby more than my cat.’ But that’s not true. Maybe I’ll love him as much as my cat?'”
In the end, she immediately fell in love with her son.
“The morning after I gave birth, I felt like my whole life had started over,” Lawrence said.
“Like, ‘Now is the first day of my life.’ I just stared. I was so in love. I also fell in love with all the babies everywhere. Newborns are so amazing. They’re these little pink, puffy survivors and fragile
“Now I love all babies… Many of my films in the past have been about my mother, my childhood. I wonder what will happen now that I will witness someone else’s childhood. And I wonder what he’ll talk to his therapist about.”
roadby the way, it will be released on November 4. After that date, you can watch it on Apple TV+.