I first met Lawrence when she was 20, freshly cast as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games franchise. So that kind of shook me out of thinking that work or your career can bring any kind of peace to your soul.” Nobody’s mad.’ And then I felt like I reached a point where people were not pleased just by my existence. Working made me feel like nobody could be mad at me: ‘Okay, I said yes, we’re doing it. If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right.
“I just think everybody had gotten sick of me.
“I was not pumping out the quality that I should have,” she says, a sad statement for someone so fiercely talented. Her last four movies ( Passengers, Mother!, Red Sparrow, and the 12th X-Men film, Dark Phoenix) turned out to be critical or box office disappointments. By early 2018, Lawrence was one of the highest paid actors in the world-an Oscar winner who stumbled up the steps on the way to collect the trophy, further cementing her public image as the movie star you’d most like to chug a beer with-but she’d had enough.
