Jennifer Lawrence is dishing on her “Hunger Games” days, revealing she “was hallucinating” after an on-set mishap.
Jennifer Lawrence (Photo by Theo Wargo/Getty Images)
During a chat with Leonardo DiCaprio on Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors series, the actress says she accidentally took the wrong prescription medication while filming “Hunger Games: Catching Fire.”
“You and I are both obsessive about sleep when we’re working, like counting the hours,” Lawrence told her “Don’t Look Up” co-star. “When I did ‘Red Sparrow,’ I took an Adderall instead of a sleeping pill, and then I didn’t sleep all night. I was taking hot showers in a panic. I am not somebody who can function without sleep. And then I had to say the phrase ‘Senate Armed Services Committee’ in a Russian accent. That sucked.”
The 35-year-old actress continued, “I also once took an Ambien in the morning, thinking it was something else. It was a dance scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second ‘Hunger Games’ movie. I was hallucinating. Elizabeth Banks got really annoyed with me.”
Leonardo DiCaprio (L) and Jennifer Lawrence attend the “Don’t Look Up” World Premiere in 2021.{ } (Photo by Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for Netflix)
DiCaprio, 51, joked that those moments are “key screwups” in an actor’s career. The two bonded over their “obsessive” need for sleep during their busy careers.
J. Law famously starred as Katniss Everdeen in the “Hunger Games” franchise while DiCaprio iconically portrayed Jack in 1997’s “Titanic.”
NEW YORK, NY – NOVEMBER 18: Jennifer Lawrence attends “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay- Part 2” New York Premiere at AMC Loews Lincoln Square 13 theater on November 18, 2015 in New York City. (Photo by Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images)
(L-R) Actors Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson attend premiere of Lionsgate’s “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” at Microsoft Theater on November 16, 2015 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Mark Davis/Getty Images)
He told Lawrence he doesn’t often revisit his old projects. At one point, she asked the actor, “Have you rewatched Titanic?” to which DiCaprio replied, “No. I haven’t seen it before.”
“I don’t really watch my films, do you?” asked DiCaprio.
“No,” Lawrence replied, joking, “I’ve never made something like Titanic — if I did, I would watch it.”
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