The actress from 'The Hunger Games' confesses that after the premiere of the saga she felt like a product of the Hollywood industry
10 years have passed since the premiere of the first installment of The Hunger Games. A saga of four dystopian films led by actress Jennifer Lawrence (32 years old) that earned her a success within the reach of very few and that broke box office records. Not only was it a boom for the production of new fantastic stories aimed at an adolescent audience, it was also a leap in the film career of the interpreter, who at that time was in her twenties. As she became a teen star, Lawrence was also involved in smaller projects. One of them, The Good Side of Things, a film also released in 2012, made her the second youngest actress to receive an Oscar. A decade later, and although from the outside the actress seemed to be living the Hollywood dream, Lawrence has recognized how she felt in the following years.
Immersed in the promotion of Causeway, her last film that will be released in the coming weeks, she has opened up during the presentation at the London Film Festival about the reason why she prefers to leave those years behind. The actress, who nabbed her first and only Oscar in the Best Supporting Actress category in 2013, has confessed that she "lost a feeling of control" early in her career due to her meteoric rise to fame. . "Between the premiere of The Hunger Games and the Oscar I became such a great product that I felt that each step I took was the result of a great, great group decision," the actress was honest.
Winning an Oscar at the age of 22 meant a great change in her life for her: “I always thought, when will it come to me? I don't think I ever will..." adding, "When I think back now, I just can't think about the years that followed, [I just remember there was] a loss of control," which he admitted not to recover until taking a break from his career and be able to see that rise in perspective.
The break came in 2019, when Lawrence married art dealer Cooke Maroney and decided to step away from the world of cinema temporarily. In February 2022, three years after their wedding, the couple welcomed their first child: Cy. Jennifer Lawrence, who had already worked with directors like Darren Aronofsky on Mother! or David O. Russell in The Great American Swindle, she decided to return to acting through the small screen, with the film Don't Look Up, co-starring Leonardo DiCaprio, and released on the Netflix content platform.
Her professional and personal life now seem to be under control: less than a month ago, the actress opened up in an interview in Vogue about how her life had completely changed after motherhood: "The morning after giving birth, I felt that all my life had started again. Something like 'now is the first day of my life'. I was in love, ”she assured. The actress also admitted that before becoming a mother she suffered two miscarriages: the first, during her twenties, when she had already taken off in the industry; and the second, during the filming of the film Do not look up.
In this interview, the four-time Oscar nominee also criticized the inequality that exists in Hollywood when it comes to the salaries of actors and actresses. All this, after learning that her partner in the film and her co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, charged 4.4 million euros more for the same role as her. “It doesn't matter how much I do. Are they still not going to pay me as much as that guy [DiCaprio] for my vagina?”
