{"id":2119644,"date":"2025-10-28T02:35:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:35:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2119644"},"modified":"2025-10-28T02:35:25","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T02:35:25","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-reflects-on-feeling-rejected-for-my-personality-at-the-height-of-her-fame-in-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/jennifer-lawrence-reflects-on-feeling-rejected-for-my-personality-at-the-height-of-her-fame-in-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Reflects on Feeling &#8216;Rejected&#8217; for &#8216;My Personality&#8217; at the Height of Her Fame in 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">NEED TO KNOW<\/h3>\n<ul class=\"mb-4\">\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Jennifer Lawrence is reflecting on the reputation she developed in the mid-2010s for coming across as &#8220;annoying&#8221; in a new interview<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI felt\u2014I didn\u2019t feel, I was, I think\u2014rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality,&#8221; Lawrence told The New Yorker<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<li class=\"ml-4 list-disc\">\n<div class=\"\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lawrence&#8217;s new movie Die My Love is in theaters Nov. 7<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/jennifer-lawrence\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Jennifer Lawrence;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> is reflecting on the reputation she held earlier in her career for coming across as &#8220;annoying&#8221; in her interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">When Lawrence, 35, spoke with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2025\/11\/03\/jennifer-lawrence-profile\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:The New Yorker;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">The New Yorker<\/a> for a profile on her new movie <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lawrence-unravels-die-my-love-trailer-11760696\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Die My Love;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Die My Love<\/a>, published Monday, Oct. 27, the actress described herself in various interviews she has taken part in throughout her career as &#8220;so hyper&#8221; and &#8220;so embarrassing&#8221; when the outlet&#8217;s reporter noted she had gone through Lawrence&#8217;s old interviews.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">&#8220;Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,\u201d she said, in response to the notion that some people thought she was faking what the outlet described as her &#8220;cool girl&#8221; persona. &#8220;And so it was a defense mechanism, to just be, like, \u2018I\u2019m not like that! I poop my pants every day!\u2019 \u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Lawrence broke out in the early 2010s with movies like Winter&#8217;s Bone, The Hunger Games franchise and Silver Linings Playbook, the latter of which earned her an <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/academy-awards\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Academy Award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Academy Award<\/a> by the time she was in her mid-20s. While speaking with The New Yorker, the actress recalled that in the 2010s, paparazzi used to follow her as she drove through Los Angeles and that she felt she was too busy doing too much press for too many projects.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI look at those interviews, and that person is annoying. I get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying. <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/ariana-grande\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Ariana Grande;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Ariana Grande<\/a>\u2019s <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=fMOKevIBwDs\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:impression of me on SNL;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">impression of me on SNL<\/a> was spot-on,&#8221; Lawrence said.\u00a0 \u201cI felt\u2014I didn\u2019t feel, I was, I think\u2014rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Jon Kopaloff\/FilmMagic Jennifer Lawrence on Dec. 9, 2016\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/Yqj164chYoUxKVBTn9kUXg--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/816dce183947d71cb64022e18c666b91\"\/><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Jon Kopaloff\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p> Jennifer Lawrence on Dec. 9, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">As Lawrence referred to in the article, Wicked star Grande, 32, once performed a compelling impression of Lawrence during a 2016 SNL episode in a Celebrity Family Feud sketch that saw Grande&#8217;s take on the Hunger Games star refer to herself as &#8220;a regular person&#8221; throughout. (When Lawrence commented on that sketch during an interview with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.vogue.com\/article\/jennifer-lawrence-vogue-september-issue-2017-cover\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Vogue;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Vogue<\/a> in 2017, she described the bit as &#8220;spot-f&#8212;&#8212; on.&#8221;)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Even as Lawrence reflected on her past reputation for goofy interview anecdotes, the actress said that right as she left her home to take part in The New Yorker\u00a0interview, she\u00a0got her mouth guard stuck in her mouth.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><strong>Never miss a story \u2014 sign up for<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/people-news-daily-newsletter-sign-up-8692701\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:PEOPLE's free daily newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> PEOPLE&#8217;s free daily newsletter<\/a> to stay up-to-date on the best of what PEOPLE has to offer\u200b\u200b, from celebrity news to compelling human interest stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic Jennifer Lawrence on Oct. 28, 2016\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"320\" height=\"480\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/s.yimg.com\/ny\/api\/res\/1.2\/34BhE.vG8W97wNObmbnp.Q--\/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTY0MDtoPTk2MDtjZj13ZWJw\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/people_218\/5425d9ec90bd215798943ae2d438429a\"\/><\/div>\n<div style=\"max-height:none;overflow:visible\">\n<p>Axelle\/Bauer-Griffin\/FilmMagic<\/p>\n<p> Jennifer Lawrence on Oct. 28, 2016<\/p><\/div>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cCan you imagine?\u201d she said. \u201cAfter ten years of being, like, \u2018I used to be folksy, but everyone thought everything was a shtick,\u2019 then I show up for my first day of this,&#8221; she said, pantomiming a clumsy person wearing a mouth guard. \u201cI was, like, I will do anything to prevent this from happening. It would be like if I tripped and fell on my way into the room.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Die My Love, which Lawrence costars in with <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/robert-pattinson\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Robert Pattinson;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Robert Pattinson<\/a>, <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/lakeith-stanfield-says-marriage-changed-him-for-the-better-exclusive-8423184\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LaKeith Stanfield;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">LaKeith Stanfield<\/a>,\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/tag\/sissy-spacek\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Sissy Spacek;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Sissy Spacek<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/movies\/nick-nolte-acting-with-daughter-sophie-precious-memories\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Nick Nolte;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Nick Nolte<\/a>, is in theaters Nov. 7.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read the original article on <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/jennifer-lawrence-reflects-feeling-rejected-for-personality-11837394\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:People;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">People<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source uk.news.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEED TO KNOW Jennifer Lawrence is reflecting on the reputation she developed in the mid-2010s for coming across as &#8220;annoying&#8221; in a new interview \u201cI felt\u2014I didn\u2019t feel, I was, I think\u2014rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality,&#8221; Lawrence told The New Yorker Lawrence&#8217;s new movie Die [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2119645,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[402335,317158],"class_list":["post-2119644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-defense-mechanism","tag-jennifer-lawrence"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Jennifer-Lawrence-Reflects-on-Feeling-Rejected-for-My-Personality-at.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2119644"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119644\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2119646,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119644\/revisions\/2119646"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2119645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}