Jennifer Lawrence and Adam Sandler Discuss Why They Avoid Reviews of Their Movies

Do you read any of the reviews or any stuff about your performances? Um, not really only when they're good. Yes, that's no, I don't I've never really normally like I you know, I promote a movie put the work into like promoting it and ask people to go see it and then it's just kind of out of your hands and that's I normally just kind of Let it go. Um dating the director was different. Yeah. Yes. Yes, you know, it's like we'd be on the tour together I'd come back to the hotel and the last thing I want to talk about or think about is a movie He comes back from the tour. That's all he wants. It's all he wants to talk about and I get it It's his baby. He wrote it. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah conceived it. He directed it. So yeah, I was doing double duty of you know Trying to be a supportive partner also being like can I please for the love of god not think about mother for one second? And then he would start reading me reviews and then I finally was just like it's not healthy Neither of us are doing it. Wow, and i'm gonna do it because if I read it I start getting defensive especially because like it's my man and you know, like i'll start And I don't want to sound like in an interview that i'm defending what we're doing in any way like right It's it's awesome what we did some people hate like and the people who hate it really hate it, right? Right, right, but I don't it's it's nothing that needs to be defended and if I read a negative review I just feel defensive. So how do you deal with criticism? Do you read negative reviews? Um, I when I first when I first got when I was when I did billy madison, I Stopped looking at me spawn. That's right. Thank you. Thanks for bringing back the good old days there jen, but I um I read some and I hated it a lot. I was I was first couple. I was like, whoa What the hell is happening man? I thought they were gonna be right with me and like yeah. Yeah. Whoa This this was such a great time I loved watching it but it was so uh, do you want to stay home and help me? Shave my armpits Juanita yeah, that was a good lady. She was uh that that actress teresa merit She was a fun woman. She didn't love saying every line We had to talk her into a few things by the way Every time i'm at the pool in the summer with my friends. We always say it's too damn hot for a penguin to just be walking around See jen, thank you. I wish you wrote some of these, uh, Yeah, these reviews. No, it's so bizarre because like you're so in the zone you put like your whole. Yeah Soul and like body and you move like to shoot a movie like you do all of this Yeah, and then you love it. Obviously you wouldn't be there if you didn't love it. Right, right, right and then people just oh, yeah Destroy it. Oh, yeah. Yeah, they come in and try to rip it apart And then so I did stop reading them after that one because I it didn't make sense to me and that and I screwed screwed my thinking up a little bit and and and uh, you know when we were writing the next one me and my buddy we were very uh, like Uh, you think uh, they're gonna hate this if we do this and then we started saying what's the difference? Yeah, let's just do what we do and uh, and we believe in it. What was your next one? Yeah, yeah And we you know, we loved it and we were young and it was exciting and uh, I think that's I did stop reading them after that now on a case, you know, like Meyerowitz's gets nice reviews and and um good ones good great. I just have them emailed to me. So I don't You know what I realized with like googling myself I went on like a little tangent like a few days ago Because everybody was like giving me compliments about like the Kimmel for everybody was like it's great So I was like this is like a safe time to record and like google myself, right? And then I just got slammed with anxiety and it wasn't even everything I was only reading positive things I probably just googled like I love Jennifer Lawrence To only get positive But it was all positive and I got slammed with anxiety and I it's because it's not healthy To realize how many people are actually looking and listening to you Like that is such a mind ****. That's true It's like you're standing on stage and then and it's the whole audience is in the dark. Oh, yeah They turn the lights on for a second. You see how many people are looking? Yes. Yes That's like it didn't even matter that it was positive. It was just the idea that It was that much attention, right? Right? It's not normal. Oh, that's that's that's terrible to be thinking like that You you start you start checking everything you're saying and thinking and yeah. Yeah. Yeah Very nothing's ever natural ever again