Jennifer Lawrence, the Oscar winner, has reflected on her early career interviews, calling them "embarrassing" and a "defence mechanism".
According to The New Yorker, Lawrence expressed her concerns about losing control over her craft during press tours, 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.
Lawrence explained that her genuine personality was also a defence mechanism, stating:
Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defence mechanism. And so it was a defence mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’
She admitted that watching those interviews now, she finds the person in them "annoying", and agreed with Ariana Grande's impression of her on SNL, saying it was "spot-on".
Author's summary: Jennifer Lawrence calls her past interviews embarrassing.