Jennifer Lawrence Says ‘It’s Awful’ Working Hard on a Movie Only for the World to Hate It: ‘It’s a Very Scary Few Months’ When You’re Opening a Movie

Jennifer Lawrence recently told V magazine that releasing a movie can be an “awful” experience for her emotions as the public decides whether or not what she made is good or not.

“The experience only adds to the dread, because I’ve had so many experiences of working so hard on something, loving something so deeply, and then releasing it to the world, and the world just being like, ‘Boo! Hate you!’ It is so awful,” Lawrence said. “And somehow, I read a script, I meet with the director, we get on set, we start doing it, and somehow I’m able to forget that this part of the process will happen. I mean, I’m very blessed and very lucky. But it’s a very scary few months.”

“My husband was so confused because he doesn’t have as much experience with this stuff,” she continued. “So I was telling him about my anxiety, and he was like, ‘But the movie’s incredible.’ And I was like, ‘I know, but that doesn’t matter. People might not get it.’ And he was like, ‘But they’re wrong.’ Like, as if that was supposed to make me feel better.”

Lawrence has been making the press rounds in recent weeks to support her latest drama, “Die My Love.” She stars in the movie as a new mother who descends into psychosis. Robert Pattinson plays her unhelpful husband. The film is directed by Lynne Ramsay.

In several recent interviews, Lawrence has gotten brutally honest about her anxiety over doing interviews during press tours for her movies. She told Vanity Fair in 2021 that she took a two-year break from Hollywood because “everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me.” Speaking to The New Yorker last month, Lawrence admitted that she understood why the public “rejected” her personality because she actually was “annoying” in old interviews.

“Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” Lawrence said about being so off the cuff in interviews. “And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’ … I look at those interviews, and that person is annoying. I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying.”

“Die My Love” is now playing in theaters nationwide. Head over to V magazine’s website to read Lawrence’s interview in its entirety.