'Ariana Grande's Impression of Me on SNL Was Spot-On' — Jennifer Lawrence Thinks She Was 'Annoying' Back in the Mid-2010s When Everyone Was Making Fun of Her Candid Personality

Remember successful the mid-2010s erstwhile Jennifer Lawrence was the butt of astir each taste joke? The histrion precocious opened up astir being hesitant to talk to the property to beforehand her enactment ever since the nationalist turned connected her truthful distinctly astir a decennary ago.

“Well, it is, oregon it was, my genuine personality, but it was besides a defence mechanism,” the Hunger Games and X-Men prima told The New Yorker successful a caller interrogation astir her candidness. “And truthful it was a defence mechanism, to conscionable be, like, ‘I’m not similar that! I poop my pants each day!’ … I look astatine those interviews, and that idiosyncratic is annoying. I get wherefore seeing that idiosyncratic everyplace would beryllium annoying. Ariana Grande’s content of maine connected SNL was spot-on.”

In 2016, SNL did a Celebrity Family Feud sketch successful which Grande played Lawrence and channeled her persona with lines like, “I’m just, like, a snackaholic. I mean, I emotion Pringles. If nary one’s looking, I’ll eat, like, a full can.” The summation of Grande’s Lawrence to the sketch was evidently timely and the nationalist ate it up — overmuch similar they did with immoderate accidental to knock Lawrence astatine the time.

Jennifer Lawrence. Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.

The performer, who is presently connected a property junket promoting her caller movie Die My Love, added: “I felt — I didn’t feel, I was, I deliberation — rejected not for my movies, not for my politics, but for me, for my personality.” She besides called her aged interviews, successful which she lays the self-depreciating drama connected thick, “so hyper” and “so embarrassing.”

This isn’t the archetypal clip the histrion has opened up astir the nationalist scrutiny and backlash she faced aft making a whopping 16 movies successful six years and seeing respective of them neglect astatine the container office. That people created a gateway for the satellite to poke amusive astatine Lawrence and her candidness relentlessly astatine the time.

“I conscionable deliberation everybody had gotten sick of me. I’d gotten sick of me. It had conscionable gotten to a constituent wherever I couldn’t bash thing right,” she told Vanity Fair successful 2021. “If I walked a reddish carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’”

She added astatine the time: “I was people-pleasing for the bulk of my life. Working made maine consciousness similar cipher could beryllium huffy astatine me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. Nobody’s mad.’ And past I felt similar I reached a constituent wherever radical were not pleased conscionable by my existence. So that benignant of shook maine retired of reasoning that enactment oregon your vocation tin bring immoderate benignant of bid to your soul.”

Lawrence is presently starring successful Lynne Ramsay’s latest project, Die My Love, other Robert Pattinson. The movie arrives successful theaters connected November 7 and volition astir apt beryllium disposable connected Mubi’s streaming app astatine a aboriginal date.

Photo by Vittorio Zunino Celotto/Getty Images.

Lex Briscuso is simply a movie and tv professional and a freelance amusement writer for IGN. You tin travel her connected Twitter astatine @nikonamerica.