Jennifer Lawrence has never pretended to be perfect, but her latest confession about by accident taking Ambien on the Hunger Games set reminds Us just how real she is.
“I also once took an Ambien within the morning, pondering it was something else,” Lawrence, 35, told Leonardo DiCaprio throughout the Wednesday, December 17, episode of Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors.
She recalled, “It was a dance scene with [the late] Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second Hunger Games movie. I used to be hallucinating.” (Lawrence first played Katniss Everdeen in 2012’s Hunger Games, based on the Suzanne Collins novel of the identical name.)
Lawrence remembered having to say lines during 2013’s Hunger Games: Catching Fire and having no “memorizational” skills while on the drug.
“Elizabeth Banks got really annoyed with me because perhaps she didn’t know I used to be on an Ambien,” Lawrence revealed. “But, I kept asking the director, ‘And wait, what does this mean? Wait, and what does this mean? What does that mean?’ She just threw her sides and was like, ‘Fantastic, let’s just keep talking about it.’”
Lawrence and DiCaprio, who were costars in 2021’s Don’t Look Up, each set free amusing over the funny incident — and it wasn’t the one time Lawrence had a drug mixup that impacted her profession.
“You and I are each obsessive about sleep once we’re working, like, counting the hours,” Lawrence told DiCaprio, 51, while recalling a separate movie mishap. “After I was doing Red Sparrow, I took an Adderall as an alternative of a sleeping pill, after which I didn’t sleep all night.”
She recalled “taking hot showers” and “panicking” concerning the mistake. “I’m not anyone who can function without sleep,” she said. “After which I needed to say [the phrase] ‘Senate Armed Services Committee’ in a Russian accent. That sucked.”
DiCaprio joked that Lawrence’s revelations were “key screwups” in her profession.
Despite hallucinating on the second Hunger Games, Lawrence continued to play heroic and fierce leader Katniss in two more movies: Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and Part 2, which hit theaters in 2014 and 2015, respectively.
Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth have moved on from the Hunger Games franchise with success, proving that the percentages have at all times been of their favor. Based on writer Suzanne Collins’ young adult books of the identical name, 2012’s The Hunger Games, 2013’s The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, 2014’s The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1 and 2015’s The Hunger […]
The Oscar winner revealed in June 2023 that she was open to reprising the role when the correct project got here along.
“Oh, my God – totally! If Katniss ever could ever come back into my life, one hundred pc,” Lawrence told Variety of probably playing the character that made her famous again.
Two years later, Lawrence’s dreams of a Katniss comeback were confirmed.
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Multiple outlets reported on December 10 that Lawrence and her Hunger Games counterpart Josh Hutcherson, who played Peeta Mellark within the franchise, could be back for the upcoming film Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping. (Us Weekly previously reached out to Lionsgate, Lawrence and Hutcherson for comment.)
While no additional details about Lawrence and Hutcherson’s roles have been released, Sunrise on The Reaping is ready to be a flash forward epilogue based on Collins’ second prequel novel.
The book was released in March and is an origin story about Woody Harrelson’s character, Haymitch. It dives into how Haymitch was crowned the winner of the second Quarter Quell, focusing totally on his life before he mentored Katniss and Peeta. Nevertheless, the pair make an appearance at the tip of the book. The younger Haymitch might be portrayed by Joseph Zada.