Jennifer Lawrence Says Her 'Embarrassing' Interviews Were A 'Defence Mechanism'

<script>!function(n){if(!window.cnx){window.cnx={},window.cnx.cmd=[];var t=n.createElement('iframe');t.display='none',t.onload=function(){var n=t.contentWindow.document,c=n.createElement('script');c.src='//cd.connatix.com/connatix.player.js',c.setAttribute('async','1'),c.setAttribute('type','text/javascript'),n.body.appendChild(c)},n.head.appendChild(t)}}(document);</script><script id="6901dbfbe4b0e49dec62cc91">(new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b';cnx.cmd.push(function(){cnx({"playerId":"ff7fdddc-5441-4253-abc4-f12a33fad58b","mediaId":"fe52623f-79ab-4830-9921-af68c5678ef1"}).render("6901dbfbe4b0e49dec62cc91");});</script><div class="content-list-component text"><p><a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entertainment/topic/jennifer-lawrence">Jennifer Lawrence</a> has reflected on her famous press tours during the early years of her career, claiming she lost “so much control over” her craft doing press for movies and called her interviews “so embarrassing”. </p><p><a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/11/03/jennifer-lawrence-profile?_sp=80951988-f68f-449d-a1e9-ef2cef9d683a.1761669215849" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">The Oscar winner told The New Yorker in a profile published on Monday</a> that, a few years ago, she told actor Viola Davis: “Every time I do an interview, I think, ‘I can’t do this to myself again.’ I feel like I lose so much control over my craft when I have to do press for a movie.” </p><p>She continued: “Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defence mechanism. And so it was a defence mechanism, to just be, like, ‘I’m not like that! I poop my pants every day!’”</p&gt