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In the 2010s, Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> was everywhere. Her continuous stream of major movies helped make her Hollywood\u2019s highest-paid female actor for two consecutive years in 2015 and 2016. Similarly, the press tours for those movies helped make her a beloved celebrity personality<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n At the height of her fame, Jennifer was lauded for her candor<\/a> and quick wit on press runs, which set her apart from her peers and provided us with countless hilarious interview moments, now living on in TikTok and YouTube compilations. But after years of back-to-back promo tours, magazine covers, and box office hits, the tide began to turn on J.Law.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n It\u2019s a tale as old as time: A successful woman becomes too<\/i> successful, and suddenly the world doesn\u2019t want to hear from her<\/a> anymore. The backlash led Jennifer to take a break from acting, during which time she got married and became a mom. And since her big return, it\u2019s fair to say that she\u2019s adopted a more low-key approach to fame to protect herself and her family<\/a> from more public scrutiny.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Now, promoting her new movie, Die My Love<\/i>, J.Law spoke with the New Yorker<\/a> about her past interviews, calling the younger version of herself in those clips \u201chyper\u201d and \u201cembarrassing.\u201d \u201cI look at those interviews, and that person is annoying,\u201d she said. \u201cI get why seeing that person everywhere would be annoying.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Notably, Jennifer name-dropped a memorable impression that Ariana Grande<\/a> did of her during a 2016 Saturday Night Live<\/i><\/a> episode, describing the impersonation as \u201cspot-on.\u201d In the \u201cCelebrity Family Feud<\/a>\u201d sketch, Ari mocked J.Law’s style of self-deprecating humor and tendency to discuss food in interviews, saying: \u201cI\u2019m just, like, a snackaholic. I mean, I love Pringles. If no one\u2019s looking, I\u2019ll eat, like, a whole can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Looking back on the \u201cuninhabitable\u201d public backlash she was at the receiving end of, Jennifer explained: \u201cI felt \u2014 I didn\u2019t feel, I was, I think \u2014 rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n I don\u2019t know about you, but that last quote actually made me super sad. As Jennifer\u2019s new interview has gained attention, people are reexamining the hatred and how much she seems to have internalized the negativity. One X post about the interview with over 160,000 likes reads<\/a>: \u201cstop hating on your younger self bitch she was genuinely funny.\u201d Someone else echoed the same point, writing<\/a>: \u201cI hate when a bad bitch apologizes for being fucking awesome.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Others talked about how watching her old press interviews remains a \u201ctop tier past time<\/a>,\u201d while someone else suggested<\/a> that \u201csociety doesn’t want women to have vibrant, funny, or loud personalities.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Straight-up disagreeing with what Jen said about her younger self being “annoying,” someone else recalled that \u201cthe public ate her personality up until she got so popular that their need to \u2018humble\u2019 her kicked in.\u201d Others compared<\/a> how this also happened to Anne Hathaway, with the whole \u201cHathahate\u201d era: \u201cThey love you one minute, hate you the next!!\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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