Jennifer Lawrence Cringes At Old Interviews: “So Embarrassing”

Jennifer Lawrence is cringing at her old self and she’s the first to admit it. In a new New Yorker profile published on October 27, the 35-year-old actress reflected on how she used to come across in interviews and why she’s not proud of it. When the interviewer mentioned going through old articles about her, Jennifer immediately groaned, “Oh, no. So hyper. So embarrassing.”

She didn’t try to deny it either. “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” she said, recalling her breakout years as Hollywood’s favorite relatable star. “And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’”

Jennifer became one of the biggest names in film in her early twenties, thanks to The Hunger Games and Silver Linings Playbook. But the fame came fast, and she admits she saw “the turn in public opinion” coming before it even hit. “I was young, I lived alone, I was being chased,” she told the outlet, revealing that she was not pleased with her relationship with the press as she worked too frequently at the time.

Now, looking back at those interviews that made her a household name, she gets why the world turned on her a bit. “I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying,” she said. “I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying. Ariana Grande’s impression of me on SNL was spot-on.”

Still, the backlash against her “cool girl” energy wasn’t easy to process. “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 admitted, describing that period as “uninhabitable.”

These days, Jennifer’s tone is quieter and her schedule calmer, but her star power hasn’t dimmed. She’s returning to the big screen for the first time in two years with Die My Love, where she stars opposite Robert Pattinson. The pair play an on-screen couple in the intense drama, which hits the theaters on November 7 and features LaKeith Stanfield, Nick Nolte and Sissy Spacek. 

The comeback is already being recognized, as Jennifer earned a nomination for Outstanding Lead Performance at the 2025 Gotham Film Awards alongside Jessie Buckley, Tessa Thompson, Ethan Hawke, and others.