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.