LAWRENCE: "From my experience, the biggest hindrance to my craft has been press, doing interviews. Every time I do an interview, I just think, I can't do this to myself again. You sit down next to somebody, you talk for an hour, an hour and a half. A month goes by, you have no idea what they're gonna use. I know I'm gonna sound stupid. It's not gonna be as articulate as it is in my mind. I feel like I'm always very self-conscious of my intellect because I didn't finish school. I dropped out of middle school"
DAVIS: "You're highly articulate"
LAWRENCE: "Thank you, and you're very beautiful"
DAVIS: "Thank you"
LAWRENCE: "I know it's gonna be picked apart and it's so antithetical to what I do. I don't want anybody to know or think they know what I'm like or that I'm at home. I'm supposed to be a mirror, I'm supposed to be a vessel. I'm supposed to be all of these different things that you shouldn't look at me and remember that I got married in Rhode Island a few years ago and my husband's an art dealer. All of these things, it's so antithetical. And I feel like I lose so much control over my craft every time I have to do press for a movie"
Posted by theultimatefanatic
14 Comments
Obviously is so tiring to tell everytime same things in interviews
What happens when you surround yourself with yes men and worshippers.
This might end up being an ~unpopular opinion,~ but I do think the adults in her life did her a massive disservice by letting her drop out of school so young. Yes, things worked out for her incredibly well financially and professionally—and there are plenty of ways to learn outside of school—but formal education is about so much more than professional prospects.
Poor Viola, getting stuck doing this.
The way press works now seems so exhausting. The burden put on actors in the social media economy is kind of ridiculous.
Eat these hot wings! Play with these puppies! Read thirst tweets! Lie detectors!
Now get up at 4 am and get on a flight to another city across the world and if you aren’t method dressing you are chopped and your movie is gonna tank at the box office and it’s all because of you! Oh and you better not have any slightly weird interactions with your costars, because we WILL look at that under a microscope and make assumptions on your character based on those 12 seconds.
Her eyes look different
I was a huge Hunger Games fan and watched all the press tour interviews but it was sad seeing her slowly change over time because the world found her so annoying just for being herself. I can see why she just can’t be bothered anymore.
She’s absolutely right and it happens here all the time
Social media and Reddit take single sound bites in quotes out of context and extrapolate it
That’s why you go to the comments and there’s always someone who says to read the article and you’ll get the full context. Then it will make sense
Well she can go back to school and stop whining.Â
the media has improved in many ways but [this great moment from](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-a7arGYU4E) Scooby Doo 2 is still relevant. social media has only made it worse. Now you get people making a post and people only reading a headline and a few comments and getting something completely different than what was said some times. Like the the Chalamet Ballet comments.
Then quit
Huh. This is the same interview special where a clip of Lawrence went viral because she mentioned how an executive told her that “female action heroes don’t sell” when she helped pitched The Hunger Games, and netizens (mostly manosphere-adjacent men) screamed “What about Ripley and Sarah Connor”, not realising the context was action movies for children and them listing (two) characters from adult-appropriate movies proved her point.
I mean they don’t have to do these things. You have enough money to just not work again if you don’t to or to work only on your own terms. They do it because it’s part of what makes them money.
but here you are bringing up your wedding and that your husband being an art dealer lol nobody asked you about that this time.