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 [yet] 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,…