Jennifer Lawrence; Adele.Photo: Dave J Hogan/Getty, Gareth Cattermole/Getty
Jennifer Lawrenceis wishing she followed advice her friendAdeleonce gave her.
“I was like, ‘Oh no, you guys are here because I’m here, and I’m here because you’re here,’ " Lawrence said of her fans. " ‘Wait, who decided that this was a good movie?’ "
Citing 2016’sPassengersas one of the movies that made her feel that way, theOscarwinner revealed that her friendAdele actually “told her not to do"the sci-fi romantic drama, which she starred in alongsideChris Pratt.
“She was like, ‘I feel like space movies are the new vampire movies,’ " Lawrence recalled to the outlet. “I should have listened to her.”
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Chris Pratt and Jennifer Lawrence inPassengers(2016).Columbia/Kobal/Shutterstock
AfterPassengers, Lawrence made a few more films that weren’t as well-reviewed as some of her previous projects, likeMother!(2017),Red Sparrow(2018) andDark Phoenix(2019).
Around the time ofPassengers, “Everything was like a rebound effect,” Lawrence told theTimes. “I was reacting, rather than just acting.”
“I felt like more of a celebrity than an actor, cut off from my creativity, my imagination,” she added.
Jennifer Lawrence.Amy Sussman/Getty
Lawrence’s interview with theTimescomes about a year after she spoke toVanity Fairfor the magazine’s December 2021 issue abouttaking a break from life in the public eye.
“I was not pumping out the quality that I should have,” she explained at the time. “I just think everybody had gotten sick of me. I’dgotten sick of me. It had just gotten to a point where I couldn’t do anything right.”
“If I walked a red carpet, it was, ‘Why didn’t she run?’ " the actress continued, before noting, “… I think that I was people-pleasing for the majority of my life.”
source: people.com
