MADRID, SPAIN – NOVEMBER 10: Actress Jennifer Lawrence attends the photocall of “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” at Hotel Villamagna on November 10, 2015 in Madrid, Spain. (Photo by Carlos Alvarez/Getty Images)
The hunger Games brought a lot of joy Jennifer Lawrence, and not just in the interpretive area. Thanks to Mockingjay – Part 1, the third film in the saga, in which he had to perform the song The hanging tree In one of her most emotional scenes, the Oscar-winning actress also achieved a musical performance that surpassed even artists of this caliber Taylor Swift.
The song, which was composed exclusively for the film, was well received by the audience debuted at number 12 on the Billboard Hot 100 with more than 2.1 million streams, more than 200,000 downloads and multiple appearances on American radio stations. In turn, it became the best debut of a song in the franchise over Swift’s Eyes Open, a track included in the soundtrack of the first film, which until then had the best numbers in the saga, having reached 19th place on Billboard.
However, the interpretation of The hanging tree Jennifer Lawrence is not proud of that.. In fact, it was a scene that she tried to avoid, that she even described as horrific and that even made her cry at the time of filming. And everything has to do with a trauma that she has carried with her since childhood.
As the actress said in an interview with David Letterman while promoting “Mockingjay – Part 1,” singing in public is not something she enjoys. As a child, when her parents encouraged her in every activity and assured her that she was perfect in everything, she experienced this An embarrassing moment on a stage that even made her own family laugh.
It happened during a Christmas gala at his school, where at just eight years old he began singing the Christmas carol Holly Jolly Christmas with overwhelming intensity. Her vocal abilities did not impress the audience, and her father imitated her and laughed at her performance for an entire week. There was Lawrence She was traumatized and decided to no longer demonstrate her musical skills at mass events.as can be the case with a film adaptation involving thousands of people, such as “The Hunger Games”.
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“I don’t like singing in front of other people. It’s like my biggest fear. I cried on set that day, apparently I cry all the time. That was awful”the actress told David Letterman in 2014. “I have a mother with a southern mother attitude who just told me that I was great at everything, that I could do anything, but I can’t do it.” So I sang in front of school because I was like, “I can do this I, I can do anything.” And my father laughed all week. “He laughed around the house and imitated the song.”
As director Francis Lawrence told Vulture, Lawrence asked her not to sing the song but to use the singer’s voice. Lorde, who had been hired to sing and lip-sync the theme song for “Mockingjay – Part 1.” However, the filmmaker rejected the idea and instead, as she confessed to Rolling Stone, hired a vocal coach to help her improve her vocal skills and boost her confidence.
“She can really sing in key,” reasoned the film’s director. “She feels very vulnerable when she sings and I knew she had to sing all day,” she said. “Jen wasn’t happy about having to sing it all day and cried a little in the morning.”
The scene continued and the success of The Hanging Tree was an example of Jennifer Lawrence’s great work in dealing with her childhood trauma. However, he didn’t feel like his performance was up to par, and during promotional interviews for Mockingjay – Part 1 with Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson, he even admitted that he refused to watch the scene and listened to himself sing hear.
“It was terrible and I never heard that scene when it appeared in the film,” he emphasized in an intervention at HitFix Her co-stars tried to dissuade her from the idea.. “Let’s look at it because it’s like going back to a place where you had a traumatic experience to get over it. Therapy,” Liam Hemsworth said after admiring Lawrence’s work. Although it seems that the attempt was in vain as the actress dragged the issue to other films.
As he told Access Hollywood while he was filming Joythe biopic about the American teleshopping icon Joy Mangano, She ended up confronting director David O. Russell because he asked her to sing a song. Lawrence herself admitted that she was very rude to the filmmaker and that she felt really bad about how he treated her, although she can’t help it that the trauma continues to plague her.
“It was a fight. But it’s also like once I get hired for a film, I have to do what I came to do. I can argue and say I don’t want to do it, but I have to do it,” he said. “I did not do it.” [la escena de canto] very gladly. I didn’t have a good attitude about it. I was very rude, very grumpy and very mean to David.. “He tried to come to me and whisper ‘Merry Christmas’ to make me feel better and I told him to get away from me.”
Of course, if he hasn’t yet gotten over the trauma with hits like “The Hanging Tree”, which amazed everyone with his vocal performance and the feeling he brought to this first part of the conclusion of “The Hunger Games”, It seems difficult for Lawrence to free himself from this ghost of the past. Although, of course, you shouldn’t have anything to fear.
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