Jennifer Lawrence Felt a ‘Loss of Control’ Amid ‘The Hunger Games’ and Her Oscar Win: I Was a ‘Commodity’

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A difficult era. Jennifer Lawrence revealed that she struggled in the aftermath of her sudden fame following the release of the first Hunger Games movie and her Academy Award win.“I think I lost a sense of control,” the Joy actress, 32, explained during a Q&A at the London Film Festival on Saturday, October 8, per Deadline. “Between The Hunger Games coming out and winning the Oscar, I became such a commodity that I felt like every decision was a big, big group decision, because I had no idea what a huge movie star does next or what Katniss Everdeen should do after this.”Though Lawrence had already been nominated for her first Oscar when The Hunger Games premiered in March 2012, the franchise catapulted her to a much higher level of stardom.

Less than one year later, the Kentucky native took home the best actress trophy at the 85th Academy Awards for her performance in Silver Linings Playbook when she was just 22 years old, becoming the second-youngest person in history to win the honor.“When I reflect now, I think of those following years as just kind of a loss of control and then a reaction to try to get back,” the Passengers star explained on Saturday. “I’m so happy that I eventually, finally, in my late 20s kind of just stopped and made some major changes, and I got the voice in my head back.

Now, it feels personal to me for the first time in a long time.”Lawrence is gearing up for the release of her first film since she and husband Cooke Maroney welcomed son Cy in February.

The Golden Globe winner plays Lynsey, a soldier adjusting to life after a traumatic brain injury, in the drama Causeway, due out in November.