'The Interview': Jennifer Lawrence Regrets Everything She’s Ever Said or Done

From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm Ludo Garcia Navarro. One of the things I often get asked about this job is, what is the hardest thing about interviewing famous people? And the answer is both obvious and a real challenge. Many stars, and especially female stars, have experienced the ugly side of celebrity culture, which has made them wary about opening up. That's also true for today's guest, Jennifer Lawrence. Lawrence had a heady start to her career, starring in two huge franchises, The Hunger Games and X Men, and winning an Oscar for Silver Linings Playbook all before she turned 23. Off camera, the public couldn't seem to get enough of her offbeat humor and outspoken persona. Privately though, Lawrence told me she was feeling pretty beat up and was waiting for the inevitable backlash. And it came in waves of negative attention and headlines about whether she was too much, too annoying, too outspoken, a fake. So after almost a decade of being in the limelight in 2018, Lawrence took a step back from acting, fired her agency, and did some soul searching. And now, as I found out when I sat down with her, she is demonstrably different. We talked in advance of her new film, Lynn Ramsey's Die My Love. She plays a young mother losing her mind in rural Montana. Lawrence told me her character, Grace, brought up a lot of complicated feelings because of her own struggles with postpartum symptoms. We started, though, talking about how this project came to her, which involved a very famous director and his very private book club. Here's my conversation with Jennifer Lawrence. Thank you so much for joining the interview. I'm so excited to talk. Thanks for having me. I wanna talk about your new film because I have a lot of thoughts. This film was adapted from a book by Arianna Harvitz, and Martin Scorsese was the one who wanted you to play this role after he read the book in his book club. I know. When he reached out, what did he say? It was very complimentary. So I I would be remiss to repeat it. It was very no. It was very nice, but he was just like I think, first of all, like, he said that I should read it and that, you know, I would be good in it. And I read it. I was actually I had just had my my first baby, and so it was it was a lot. It was really overwhelming. I, like, I I read it in one one sitting. But I was actually in a really good place in my postpartum journey. I didn't struggle in the kind of classic postpartum way. I bonded right away with with my son. And so I think because of that, I was able to allow my mind to kind of go to those darker places. I think if I was in a dark place …