Jennifer Lawrence recently told The New Yorker that she is hesitant to speak to the press while promoting her movies. The Oscar winner has been a tabloid fixture for 15 years and once told fellow 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.”

When the subject of Lawrence’s old interviews came up, the actor winced and said: “Oh, no. So hyper. So embarrassing.” While the public initially loved Lawrence for her candid, self-deprecating personality, perception of her online eventually soured with claims that it was all fake.

“Well, it is, or it was, my genuine personality, but it was also a defense mechanism,” Lawrence said about being so off the cuff in

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