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

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Speaker 3 From the New York Times, this is the interview. I'm Ludu Garcia Navarro.

Speaker 3 One of the things I often get asked about this job is, what is the hardest thing about interviewing famous people?

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 That's also true for today's guest, Jennifer Lawrence.

Speaker 3 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 Lining's playbook all before she turned 23.

Speaker 3 Off-camera, the public couldn't seem to get enough of her off-beat humor and outspoken persona.

Speaker 3 Privately though, Lawrence told me she was feeling pretty beat up and was waiting for the inevitable backlash.

Speaker 3 And it came in waves of negative attention and headlines about whether she was too much, too annoying, too outspoken, a fake.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 And now, as I found out when I sat down with her, she she is demonstrably different.

Speaker 3 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.

Speaker 3 Lawrence told me her character, Grace, brought up a lot of complicated feelings because of her own struggles with postpartum symptoms.

Speaker 3 We started, though, talking about how this project came to her, which involved a very famous director and his very private book club.

Speaker 3 Here's my conversation with Jennifer Lawrence.

Speaker 3 Thank you so much for joining the interview. I'm so excited to talk.
Thanks for having me. I want to talk about your new film because I have a lot of thoughts.

Speaker 3 This film was adapted from a book by Ariana Harvitz, and Martin Scorsese was the one who wanted you to play this role after he read the book in his book club.

Speaker 2 I know.

Speaker 3 When you reached out, what did he say?

Speaker 2 It was very complimentary. So I would be remiss to repeat it.

Speaker 2 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.

Speaker 2 I was actually, I had just had my first baby. And so it was, it was a lot.
It was really overwhelming. I like, I read it in one

Speaker 2 sitting.

Speaker 2 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 my son.

Speaker 2 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 and I read it, I would be too afraid of it.

Speaker 2 And so it's kind of like turning all the lights on and looking at the monster under the bed or something.

Speaker 3 Before we move on, who is in Marty Scorsese's book club?

Speaker 2 I know. I don't know.
I mean, I could just ask. I think you know.
I mean, the worst he could say is, I don't feel like telling you.

Speaker 3 Are you in a book club?

Speaker 2 I'm in a soft book club. So we tried.
We tried to make like an official book, but we're just too different in our tastes.

Speaker 3 Back to the film. As I was watching it, it seemed to me sort of like this.
scream against the current elevation of domestic life and perfect motherhood as sort of the pinnacle of female achievement.

Speaker 3 What is this film about for you?

Speaker 2 It kind of morphs for me.

Speaker 2 I think that it's definitely about somebody losing her identity and motherhood and

Speaker 2 rage at not just her husband, but the change of the relationship, the change of the love.

Speaker 2 But what I really like about it is it's kind of, it's poetry. It's there's there's not kind of a single way to look at it.

Speaker 2 There's like a statement and then breathing room for you to read into what the statement means to you. Everybody I talk to comes away with something different.

Speaker 3 How do you view what Grace, your character, is actually going through? Because I've read reviews that say that she has postpartum depression. I read reviews that say that she, you know, is bipolar.

Speaker 3 I read reviews that say that she has psychosis. I'm wondering, first of all, does it matter? And then how you understood what she is experiencing?

Speaker 2 That's another thing that kind of morphed for me and never really felt like one thing.

Speaker 2 I was pregnant. I was in my second trimester.
When you were filming this. When I was filming this.
And

Speaker 2 I think there were like

Speaker 2 there were certain realities that I just I couldn't like look at. And I spoke to a postpartum specialist who told me that a number one cause of death in mothers in the first year is suicide.

Speaker 2 And that obviously went into

Speaker 2 our thinking about the ending, the forest. What is the forest? What is the fire? Do they find their way back to each other?

Speaker 2 What does all of it mean?

Speaker 2 And so I think I saw the forest as more of like a cleansing.

Speaker 3 We should say at the end, she walks into this burning forest.

Speaker 2 Are we supposed to do this? Am I going to like ruin the movie for her? I don't know.

Speaker 3 You brought it up.

Speaker 2 That's why I have to be clear on what it is. I guess I have like franchise paranoia, but maybe it's fine.

Speaker 3 Franchise paranoia.

Speaker 3 I think there's not going to be a franchise of this film, but who knows?

Speaker 2 I would agree with you.

Speaker 3 At any rate, she is someone who is

Speaker 3 very

Speaker 3 strict.

Speaker 2 She's really depressed. She's really, she's really unhappy.
She's really angry.

Speaker 2 And I think

Speaker 2 the love that you have for your child, I think sometimes when I think that she was so lost that she felt like she was the only thing wrong with her baby and that she was the only thing that could ruin her child and when I watched it back after having my second child and actually experiencing postpartum depression that was a really really weird experience I walked away with so many different opinions about it that I don't want to share because then I'll give up the whole movie and the allegories.

Speaker 2 Like, what am I doing?

Speaker 3 Well, let me ask you something else then. You just said you experienced postpartum depression depression after your second child.
Can you talk to me a little bit about what that looked like for you?

Speaker 3 And I guess that must have been surprising, perhaps, because

Speaker 2 I was ready and I knew what I was doing and I felt more confident. I just expected to feel the way I did with my first, which I feel like it should just be said.

Speaker 2 I think postpartum

Speaker 2 is just a physical experience that happens to everybody. I mean, your hormones are doubling every day in your first trimester and then those hormones plummet after you have a baby.

Speaker 2 They plummet again when you you wean

Speaker 2 so i my experience with my second was i just felt like a tiger was chasing me every day i've had so much anxiety i had non-stop intrusive thoughts that i was just like

Speaker 2 at the whim of they like controlled me um fear about your child fear about yourself yeah it was fear about my child just picturing every worst case scenario and then just doubting everything that i was doing everything that you know um

Speaker 2 And then I was already in therapy, but I got on a drug called Zerzuve and I took it for two weeks and it really helped me.

Speaker 2 So if anybody is having postpartum Zerzuve, I'm not paid by them, but they could maybe throw me something.

Speaker 2 But that helped. Yeah.
I went on a, on a pill that was designed for postpartum. I took it for two weeks and it helped a lot.

Speaker 3 I'm a parent myself and also someone who suffered from mental illness, PTSD, and other things. And so, you know, I was watching the film.

Speaker 3 And again, I think what's really powerful about the film is that it can't speak to different things that people have experienced.

Speaker 3 There's a universality of, of course, anyone who's been a parent and a mother, but also just anyone who struggled with their mental health.

Speaker 2 Have you,

Speaker 3 other than that time of postpartum depression, struggled with mental health issues, things like that that helped you sort of understand the character a little better?

Speaker 2 Yeah, I've struggled with anxiety for most of my life.

Speaker 2 And anxiety's close friend is normally depression because by the end of the day are so exhausted from the like adrenal burnout that you just kind of plummet and get really sad from that.

Speaker 2 So I've I've struggled with that before. I think more of what I brought into the

Speaker 2 headspace is the feeling of just never

Speaker 2 feeling like you're doing it right. Like I just I just kind of like live in guilt and just, you know, is this the right breakfast? Is this what we should be talking about on the way home from school?

Speaker 2 It's just, I just kind of am always

Speaker 2 worried that I'm failing them. And I can

Speaker 2 keep myself from being like swallowed by that because I, I know I'm a good mom and I know my kids are happy and I have a great husband and I have like great support at home.

Speaker 2 So I can like do a reality check and be like, everybody's okay. You're just spinning.
But she can't and she doesn't. And so she really just goes there.
So that was very easy for me to follow that

Speaker 2 kind of spin down the drain.

Speaker 3 The other thing that she sort of deals with is a loss of her creative self that is

Speaker 3 also really hard. I mean, one of the things that I think as mothers, you can feel often is just how your child seems to just leech all of the

Speaker 3 energy, all of the feeling of motivation out of you and you just

Speaker 3 give it all to them.

Speaker 3 And as someone who is in a creative field, as an actor, I mean, was that something that you kind of were able to connect with?

Speaker 2 Yeah. I mean, having kids is sacrificial and it's gratifying and it's amazing and rewarding.
It's all of the things, but it's not sacrificial.

Speaker 2 And yeah, I've never had to

Speaker 2 say no to something before that I really wanted to do. I could just go do it.

Speaker 2 I do wrestle with

Speaker 2 it, it feels

Speaker 2 vain and selfish that I love being a creative person as much as I do. My kids and my family are more important, obviously, but they feel like equal parts of me, like an equal part.

Speaker 2 Like I would not be complete if I couldn't make movies. I just wouldn't.

Speaker 2 And on the one hand, like when I had my son, my firstborn, I was like, being an actress is the perfect job for being a hands-on mom. Like I, I can go years without working.

Speaker 2 I can be so hands-on, you know, and then I go work a little bit. They visit, yada, yada, yada.
And like, this is perfect. And then now I'm realizing I'm like, oh, that was COVID.

Speaker 2 And you are quite busy. And so I'm kind of reckoning with that and have been of just like, how much is it okay

Speaker 2 to love this and not want to give it up? I definitely relate to that.

Speaker 2 I found the opposite problem with creativity.

Speaker 2 I had so much anxiety when my second was born that the only way I could escape was in stories and books, and in particular, the American Revolution. And so I

Speaker 2 really lost myself in kind of ideas. And that's always been how I digest feelings.

Speaker 3 The American Revolution, do tell.

Speaker 2 Well, I read this amazing book called The Revolutionary by Stacey Schiff. I haven't read it.
It's about like Sam Adams and just kind of,

Speaker 2 I feel like the closest thing we can get to a crystal ball is history.

Speaker 2 And I feel like we're all kind of fighting over what it means to be an American right now. And so I just was interested in what the original Americans' ideals were.

Speaker 2 What did they think that they were building? What did they think they were getting away from? And what did they think they were creating?

Speaker 3 I do want to talk about the American Revolution and politics, but I wanted to ask you one more thing about the film that struck me.

Speaker 3 There's a lot of nudity in the film. There's a lot of unvarnished nudity in the film.

Speaker 3 And, you know, knowing that you were pregnant, I'm just wondering how you, we have such a complicated relationship in this country with nudity and women.

Speaker 2 and and I was wondering how you thought about that in the film and like challenges of that um I'm definitely not bothered by people that are bothered by nudity they don't have to see it they can fast forward it um but I don't I don't really care about being judged in that way there's this freedom of vanity in a way because

Speaker 2 I'm pregnant and it's my second. Like I really was not adequately prepared for how I was like, oh, I'll just be like four or five months.

Speaker 2 Like, I won't even start showing until I'm like six or seven months. And that's not true when it's your second.

Speaker 2 I just kind of had to like let go of any vanity. I mean, I sucked in as hard as I possibly could have,

Speaker 2 but I wasn't going to diet. I was pregnant.
I couldn't exercise. I was working.
So it was just like this kind of like real freedom to it. Does that feel good? Yeah.
Release.

Speaker 2 Yeah. It feels nice.
I mean, I do have moments where I'm like, what technically are the differences between me and a prostitute? But it doesn't keep me up at night.

Speaker 2 What?

Speaker 2 Well, I don't think that there's anything wrong with prostitution either.

Speaker 3 I don't know. I'm not saying that there is.
I just, it's funny that your mind went there.

Speaker 2 Oh, I'm very good at attacking myself. I can find every angle.
In fact, I should do this interview. What would you ask you? No.
My God, it would be so sad.

Speaker 2 Sorry, I have the coffee tune because your pump was asking you to adjust your jacket. Oh, no.
It means she she didn't like something. What did I say?

Speaker 2 Actually, now that we're paused, I'm going to pee.

Speaker 3 Okay, at this point, Jennifer Lawrence gets up, we take a little break,

Speaker 3 then a few minutes later, she comes and sits back down for the rest of the interview.

Speaker 2 Is everything okay? Yeah, no, I didn't get yelled at, I just peed. I believe in freedom of the press.
I believe in the freedom of the press, too. Damn it.

Speaker 2 That reminds me of one battle after another. Talking about freedom, baby.

Speaker 3 Okay, so the other thing is

Speaker 3 that you, your sort of persona in the world has been someone who is very funny and out there and has sometimes been viewed as like too loud, too much,

Speaker 3 and has sort of faced backlash and also people are charmed by it.

Speaker 3 And

Speaker 3 I was wondering, now looking back at that era, what do you think about how you were perceived and how you sort of interacted with the public as you were coming up when you were younger.

Speaker 2 I mean, now that I'm in my 30s and a mom,

Speaker 2 I can see that how

Speaker 2 young I was. Like when I meet a 23-year-old now, I mean, think about a 23-year-old.

Speaker 2 They're children.

Speaker 2 And so as horrified as I am at some things, like if something comes across my phone, I just like absolutely could never watch it, like an old interview or something.

Speaker 2 I'm just like, oh my God, like so cringe. But I get it i was young and um

Speaker 2 and nervous and defensive and like awkward i remember when i was nominated for silver linings

Speaker 2 and somebody was like everybody loves you what does that feel like and i was like they it

Speaker 2 feels like

Speaker 2 precarious you know like i'm waiting for it because like it's not you know it's going to come down. That's just like the nature of things.

Speaker 2 And then I fell getting my Oscar. And then the next year,

Speaker 2 I remember the moment I was waving to fans and I tripped on a cone. And I remember being like,

Speaker 2 fuck,

Speaker 2 that's it. Like, nobody's going to believe that.
Nobody's going to believe that I fell two years in a row. I did.

Speaker 2 Because after you tripped on your Oscar, people said that I faked it. That you faked it.
Yeah.

Speaker 2 I didn't.

Speaker 2 And so that became, I was just like, yeah, I'm fucked. And I was.
Everybody just kind of thought that meant everything that I did was fake. And it was like all a shtick.

Speaker 2 This is how it felt to me that I just kind of got like found out as this like fraud.

Speaker 3 I mean, you said

Speaker 3 at that moment that you felt that other people had gotten sick of you and you had gotten sick of yourself. And I'm interested in that you had gotten sick of yourself.
What did that mean?

Speaker 2 I was sick of

Speaker 2 doing this

Speaker 2 and doing interviews is really scary.

Speaker 2 Like, I'm very blessed. I'm very lucky.
I'm very grateful. I have a great job.

Speaker 2 But it's terrifying. Like you finish an interview and

Speaker 2 or, you know, you're gearing up to release a film and it's like the, you know, the circus tent, the curtains are opening and it's just like.

Speaker 2 you're putting yourself out there and you're putting yourself out there to be picked apart and it's scary. And I was just so tired of it.

Speaker 2 I was just so tired of being quoted and people talking about the quotes. You know, I just was so tired of seeing myself in that, in that way.

Speaker 2 I needed a break from it. People needed a break from it.
And then I took a break and enjoyed the break. It was a mutual breakup.

Speaker 3 What did you do during that period where you took a step back? Because that was a two and a half year period where you weren't actually

Speaker 2 out in front.

Speaker 3 You got married. It was COVID.
So there's reasons for all of that. But how were you recalibrating during that period?

Speaker 2 I don't really know. I lived with my cousin for a little bit.
Hi, cous.

Speaker 2 Because we were like in our, I don't know, mid-20s. She just kind of moved into my apartment in New York and we became roommates.
And it was fun. We watched TV.
I took my dog to Central Park.

Speaker 2 Then I fell in love and I started learning more about contemporary post-war art.

Speaker 3 As you do. As you do.

Speaker 2 Oh, my husband's an art dealer.

Speaker 3 May I ask how you met your husband?

Speaker 2 Yeah, he showed me art. I was considering buying something, and I

Speaker 2 asked my friend Gene, who actually ended up directing me in No Hard Feelings. But I asked him, Do you know anybody in the art world?

Speaker 2 And he sent me Cook's number. And I didn't know, you know.
And then I showed up to the gallery and was like, oh my God, what is your deal?

Speaker 2 And then he stopped being my

Speaker 2 art advisor.

Speaker 3 Do you find it hard to be

Speaker 3 your authentic self when you're trying to interact with the public because of what you went through?

Speaker 3 Because I saw you at this press conference that you gave in Spain, and you seem a lot more reserved than you used to be, more careful, more considered. And I'm just wondering if that is deliberate.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I mean, I think I've also grown up

Speaker 2 and

Speaker 2 I'm a lot more nervous

Speaker 2 about whatever I say publicly. I try not to,

Speaker 2 you know, I don't want to like give an interview that's like a bunch of like sound bites and like a word salad. I just like, I don't think that that's like interesting.

Speaker 2 And I don't feel like that's like what I'm like,

Speaker 2 it just would feel so inauthentic and

Speaker 2 not like what I'm here to do.

Speaker 2 So. I'm trying to strike that balance.

Speaker 3 I mean,

Speaker 3 I'm going to break the fourth wall here, but I mean, it's always a strange thing to do, right? I'm a journalist asking you questions. I obviously want you to give revealing answers.

Speaker 3 And you have to protect yourself as an artist and as a private person in the world. And so I often think about how complicated that that dance is, especially for women.

Speaker 3 I mean, do you think as a female artist that you have been treated differently than perhaps other

Speaker 3 men because you were young, you were open to the world in a way that perhaps other people aren't. You didn't seem so jaded, I think.

Speaker 2 Thank you.

Speaker 2 I don't know if it's different than if I were a man, because I've just never lived that existence. I only know this one.
That was the wrong question. And I feel, no, no, no, it wasn't.

Speaker 2 I'm getting around to it. I'm just dancing around your question because we are doing the dance.

Speaker 2 We are.

Speaker 2 I feel it when it's time for women to be the morality police. You know, it's easy for me to see it when it's happening.

Speaker 2 You know, when somebody does a Woody Allen movie and they only ask the women, you know, well, how do you feel about working with Woody Allen? You know, and you can just watch it.

Speaker 2 You can just watch not one male actor get asked that question. And I see that play out a lot: just like women being the examples, women being the morality police.

Speaker 2 And also, I think there is something, I don't know what it is,

Speaker 2 it's really easy to hate women viciously in a way that it's almost like we have this

Speaker 2 ire in us that specifically there's like an extra pocket for it and the ire that people are capable of, I think, is different. I never at any point felt like this is unfair because of my gender.

Speaker 2 I felt like this is unfair

Speaker 2 because

Speaker 2 you created this.

Speaker 2 You ask and you ask and you ask and you want and you want and you want and then you don't want it anymore. And I felt like rejected.

Speaker 2 But that's now that I'm older, that is a natural push-pull of the process. And I have to be in control of how much access is given and how much isn't.

Speaker 3 After the break, Jennifer tells me about being politically outspoken early in her career and why she's approaching things differently now.

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Speaker 3 I did want to ask you about your relationship with some of your directors, because you have been with directors who are known as being very difficult, challenging directors, people who are auteurs, have really clear visions.

Speaker 3 And, you know, for example, when you were making Mother with Darren Aronofsky, you hyperventilated, you tore your diaphragm, you got medical attention, and then he made you film the scene again when you got back.

Speaker 3 And I'm just wondering what that kind of intensity does for you. Like, how do you work with directors who really bring that out in you and demand that of you?

Speaker 2 I stay loose. I think David O'Russell really taught me how to, I think because of David, I've never really,

Speaker 2 it's never really mattered what the director's kind of methodology is. I can kind of.

Speaker 3 I mean, Amy Adams, who was in American Hustle with you, and that was obviously David O'Russell, said of you, Jennifer doesn't take any of it on. She's Teflon.

Speaker 3 Sort of saying that you don't absorb some of that stuff.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I didn't. I, but I really felt like David, that was his way of communicating in a non-bullshit way.
I never felt like he was like degrading or yelling at me.

Speaker 2 Like if he didn't like something, he was just like, that was terrible. Looked like shit.
Do it better. And that.
was like a very helpful conversation. Like, oh, okay, I'll do it better.
How so?

Speaker 2 I don't know. Slower, not so loud.
It was just very, you know, and I'm not, I'm not sensitive. I don't, I don't know how you can be in this industry.

Speaker 2 Like, especially, I mean, these young girls hopefully are going to grow up in a different way.

Speaker 3 Well, I mean, Amy Adams said that she cried on set when she talked about you being Teflon. She said that for her, it was, it was hard.

Speaker 2 Well, he might, maybe he was harder on her than he was on me. And also, I don't know.
I mean, yes, of course I'm sensitive. I'm really sensitive.
I know.

Speaker 3 We've literally had this entire conversation about how sensitive you are.

Speaker 2 You're so sensitive. I can't believe I just said that.

Speaker 2 I had a conversation with a girl the other night. She was like, oh, I'm the middle of two with two brothers.
And I was like, I'm the middle child with two brothers.

Speaker 2 And we just like talked about it passionately for five minutes. And then I was like, I'm the youngest.

Speaker 2 I'm sorry. And she gave me the weirdest look, obviously, because

Speaker 2 that was that. I'm like, I'm not sensitive.
I'm extremely sensitive.

Speaker 3 I was going to say, I didn't want to say anything, but I I was like, we have talked now for quite a bit about this.

Speaker 2 More sensitive than Amy Adams, just flat out.

Speaker 2 I guess I don't mean anything I say. Do you still want to continue interviewing me? Absolutely.
Okay.

Speaker 3 But maybe you're less sensitive about the acting. I guess what I'm trying to get at here.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I'm not sensitive about acting. I'm not competitive about acting.
My, my husband is always.

Speaker 2 really amazed because I am so competitive. Like when we play tennis, I throw my racket, I scream, I rage, I like, I can't do a puzzle.
Like, I'm so competitive.

Speaker 2 I like, I make eye contact with him when we're brushing teeth sometimes because I'm like, I did it a little bit longer than you. Did you notice that?

Speaker 2 And so he finds it fascinating that I'm not competitive with acting.

Speaker 2 But I think it's because I feel secure. So why would I get competitive? I feel, I feel fine.
And so when it comes to getting the director, I mean,

Speaker 2 you need to have a visionary. I think it's working with a real artist that I I can trust.

Speaker 3 I mean, you're about to do a film with Martin Scorsese, which is coming up.

Speaker 2 Yeah, I don't know if I trust him.

Speaker 3 Yeah. I mean, why would you?

Speaker 2 He's such an NFI really prove himself to me.

Speaker 3 Tell me about

Speaker 3 in advance of working with a director like Martin Scorsese. You haven't actually been directed by him.
I mean, how do you prepare for something like that?

Speaker 2 I'll probably do what I always do, which is panic and then try to get in touch with like an acting teacher and then meet the acting teacher and then never see them again.

Speaker 3 That's your process.

Speaker 2 That is my process. And at this point, it's almost like superstitious if

Speaker 2 I don't take the one meeting and then not follow up. I'll read, I'll be prepared, I'll memorize.
Leo is, you know, Leonardo DiCaprio. Leonardo DiCaprio.
We work together on Don't Look Up, and

Speaker 2 he knows when his character was born and what kind of cologne they wear. And like Leo, in

Speaker 2 one battle after another

Speaker 2 is so

Speaker 2 serious in his commitment and like it's so it's so real and that's what makes it hilarious you know his sides are covered in like look he's like Carrie Matherson you know in homeland like I know what's the whole script you don't know what sides mean oh excuse me sorry sorry didn't mean to get all the silver screen on you

Speaker 2 well kid sides sorry tell me sides are just like a few pages, like a scene

Speaker 2 from the whole script. So

Speaker 2 when I was working with Leo, I was just like, I got to be doing whatever he's doing. Like, this is incredible.
But Christian Bale changed me a lot to an American hustle. I was 23.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 I remember like, I was, I was very sensitive about getting embarrassed in front of the crew. And like, I thought acting was like embarrassing.

Speaker 2 And so I would just kind of try to make a point of like not acting until I just absolutely had to, like at action.

Speaker 2 but then i would see christian who didn't like it's not like he's stayed in character like all day or anything like nothing he just when the crew started getting ready you know like then the lights started getting ready and the sound and it became clear we were going to start rolling soon he would kind of slowly start getting ready and then i was like that seems like a good idea and i should do that when i'm more mature and can handle people looking at me and being like,

Speaker 2 she's acting.

Speaker 3 You mentioned one battle after another.

Speaker 2 Oh my God. I saw it last night.
I know that it is now further in the future.

Speaker 3 If you're hearing it, it doesn't matter what time stamping it. You saw it last night.

Speaker 2 I saw it last night in 70 millimeter IMAX as God intended.

Speaker 2 It's the most incredible movie I've ever seen in my entire life. I feel so grateful just for that to exist.

Speaker 2 I just like kiss the ground that that movie walks on.

Speaker 3 It's also a film that it speaks to, as we started discussing, it speaks to this political moment in a very interesting

Speaker 3 and important way

Speaker 3 that is funny, that is complicated.

Speaker 2 And it's a good idea. It's not a bad idea.
What do you mean?

Speaker 2 A revolution.

Speaker 2 You have been politically outspoken in the past.

Speaker 3 In the first Trump administration, you know, you had a lot to say.

Speaker 3 I'm curious how you feel about talking out now.

Speaker 2 I don't really know if I should.

Speaker 2 I think like

Speaker 2 the first Trump administration was so

Speaker 2 wild and just how can we let this stand? Like I felt like I was running around like a chicken with my head cut off.

Speaker 2 But as we've learned election after election, celebrities do not make a difference whatsoever on who people vote for.

Speaker 2 And so then what am I doing? I'm just sharing my opinion on something that's going to just add fuel to a fire that's ripping the country apart. I mean, we are so

Speaker 2 divided. I think I'm in a complicated recalibration

Speaker 2 because I'm also an artist. And with this temperature and the way that things can turn out,

Speaker 2 I don't want to start turning people off to films and to art that could change consciousness or change the world because they don't like my political opinions.

Speaker 2 I want

Speaker 2 to protect my

Speaker 2 craft so that you can still get lost in what I'm doing, what I'm showing. And if I can't say something that's going to speak to some kind of peace or lowering the temperature or

Speaker 2 some sort of solution, I just don't want,

Speaker 2 I don't want to be a part of the problem. I don't want to make the the problem worse.

Speaker 3 I mean, I saw you at a press conference recently when you were speaking about Gaza, point to

Speaker 3 our elected officials as the people who need to be responsible for answering those questions and not putting that on actors and other celebrities to sort of take a stand.

Speaker 2 Yeah, just like if it's like looking at a chessboard, you know, you just watch these actors' faces who have had incredible careers and done amazing things and made incredible contributions that all of a sudden one half of the internet or one half of the country just can't stand anymore.

Speaker 2 They don't want to see their face anymore because of blah blah blah blah blah. And I get I get so upset for those people and those actors and it just feels so wrong.
So I don't, I don't know.

Speaker 2 I try to express myself and my politics through my work. I made a documentary called Bread and Roses about the Taliban retakeover in Afghanistan and Sorofsky versus Texas about the abortion ban.

Speaker 2 Pretty much a lot of my movies coming out from my production company are expressions of the political landscape. That's how I feel like I can be helpful.
That's how I feel like I can,

Speaker 2 I don't know, bring awareness or do something.

Speaker 2 Do you regret how you dealt with things before?

Speaker 2 I don't know, probably. I mean, I regret everything I've ever done or said, but

Speaker 3 five seconds after you've done or said.

Speaker 2 Yeah, of course. I'm going to take the zip drives out of all of these cameras when I leave.

Speaker 2 It feels the second term feels different because it's like

Speaker 2 we all knew he said what he was going to do.

Speaker 2 We knew what he did for four years. He was very clear.

Speaker 2 And

Speaker 2 that's what we chose.

Speaker 2 Again,

Speaker 2 I think there's something that just feels different about the second term.

Speaker 3 I want to thank you for being so thoughtful.

Speaker 2 Thank you. Thank you for having me.

Speaker 3 That's Jennifer Lawrence. Her movie, Die My Love, will be in theaters starting November 7th.

Speaker 3 To watch this interview and many others, you can subscribe to our YouTube channel at youtube.com slash at symbol the interview podcast. This conversation was produced by Seth Kelly.

Speaker 3 It was edited by Annabel Bacon. Mixing by Sonia Herrero.

Speaker 3 Original music by Dan Powell and Marion Lozano. Photography by Philip Montgomery.
Our senior booker is Priya Matthew and Wyatt Orm is our producer. Our executive producer is Allison Benedict.

Speaker 3 Video of this interview was produced by Paola Newdorf. Cinematography by Zach Caldwell, with additional camera work by Jenny Levitt, Luke Piotrowski, Zebediah Smith, and and Alfredo Chiarapa.

Speaker 3 Audio by Nick Pittman. It was edited by Eddie Costas.
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Speaker 3 Special thanks to Alyssa Wilkinson, Roy Walsh, Renan Borelli, Jeffrey Miranda, Maddie Masiello, Jake Silverstein, Paula Schuman, and Sam Dolnick.

Speaker 3 Next week, David talks to Fox News' late-night star Greg Gutfeld about his hit show, Humor in the Time of Trump, and why he thinks the right is having all the fun.

Speaker 6 The way people view conservatives versus liberals is Dean Wormer and Animal House. The liberals are Animal House, the conservatives are always Dean Wormer.
And my goal was to flip that.

Speaker 3 I'm Lulu Garcia Navarro, and this is the interview from the New York Times.

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