Jennifer Lawrence looked back on the dark side of when she achieved global superstardom through The Hunger Games.
After the movie came out in 2012, she admitted to feeling like a ‘commodity’ and ‘lost a sense of control,’ she said during an event at the London Film Festival.
‘When I reflect now, I can’t think of those following years, [because there was] just a loss of control,’ the 32-year-old actress recalled, according to Variety.
Looking back: Jennifer Lawrence looked back on the dark side of when she achieved global superstardom through The Hunger Games; pictured last month
She made the remarks to Francine Stock during an onstage interview for the London Film Festival’s Screen Talk series.
‘I think I lost a sense of control,’ she said. ‘Between The Hunger Games coming out and winning the Oscar [for 2012’s Silver Lining Playbook], I became such a commodity that I felt like every decision was a big, big group decision.’
Jennifer recently took a years-long hiatus from feature films before making her comeback last year in the apocalypse comedy Don’t Look Up.
She has managed to wrest back the control that she lost, and the process of making movies now ‘feels personal for me the first time in a long time.’
Remember when: After the movie came out in 2012 she became a ‘commodity’ and ‘lost a sense of control,’ she said during an event at the London Film Festival
‘Sense of control’: ‘Between The Hunger Games coming out and winning the Oscar, I became such a commodity that I felt like every decision was a big, big group decision,’ she said
Stratospheric rise: The same year The Hunger Games came out, she starred with Bradley Cooper in Silver Linings Playbook, the movie that earned her an Oscar
Her production company is called Excellent Cadaver, which is a reference to the way she has worked to reshape her identity.
‘It’s a Sicilian mafia term for a hit on a major celebrity,’ she dished. ‘It just made sense. I think there was a part of me that wanted to execute that part of me.’
Although she became a critical darling for the 2010 drama Winter’s Bone, she shot to the global international fame she enjoys today by way of The Hunger Games.
She then became a mainstay of major franchise tentpoles, acting in not just the Hunger Games film series but also the X-Men movies.
Remember when: She then became a mainstay of major franchise tentpoles, acting in not just the Hunger Games film series but also the X-Men movies (pictured)
Alongside the blockbusters she also appeared in such features as Passengers alongside Chris Pratt and mother! directed by her then-beau Darren Aronofsky.
She was a scene-stealing presence in the 2013 film American Hustle amid a top-flight cast including Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner.
Jennifer announced in September 2017 that she was taking a sabbatical from acting and made her comeback with last year’s Netflix hit Don’t Look Up amid a star-studded cast including Leonardo DiCaprio and Meryl Streep.
‘I don’t have anything set for two years,’ she told Savannah Guthrie on the Today show in 2017, joking that she might ‘start making pots.’
Showstopper: She was a scene-stealing presence in the 2013 film American Hustle amid a top-flight cast including Christian Bale, Amy Adams, Bradley Cooper and Jeremy Renner
In 2018, she founded her production company Excellent Cadaver, through which she is one of the producers on her upcoming drama Causeway.
The movie is helmed by Broadway director Lila Neugebauer and stars Jennifer as an Afghanistan veteran with a brain injury trying to acclimate to civilian life.
Jennifer recently told Vogue’s 73 Questions that the strangest rumor she ever heard about herself was ‘That I f***ed Harvey Weinstein.’
Return: Jennifer recently took a years-long hiatus from feature films before making her comeback last year opposite Leonardo DiCaprio in Don’t Look Up
When the Me Too movement took off early in her hiatus, one of Harvey Weinstein’s accusers claimed that the producer told her: ‘I slept with Jennifer Lawrence and look where she is; she has just won an Oscar.’
Jennifer staunchly denied that she ever had sex with Harvey, issuing a statement at the time saying: ‘My heart breaks for all the women who were victimized by Harvey Weinstein…. I have never had anything but a professional relationship with him.’
She went on: ‘This is yet another example of the predatory tactics and lies that he engaged in to lure countless women.’
Deer in headlights: Jennifer recently told Vogue’s 73 Questions that the strangest rumor she ever heard about herself was ‘That I f***ed Harvey Weinstein’; they are pictured in 2013
Source: dailymail.co.uk
