Jennifer Lawrence is sifting through the silver linings of her early on-set missteps, revealing some hilarious and unsettling incidents from her film career. During the December 17 episode of CNN and Variety's Actors on Actors series, the No Hard Feelings actress confessed to accidentally taking the wrong kind of pill on two separate occasions.
"You and I are both obsessive about sleep when we're working, like counting the hours," Lawrence shared with her Don't Look Up costar Leonardo DiCaprio. "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 someone 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, who will reprise her iconic role as Katniss Everdeen in the upcoming Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping prequel alongside Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark, also shared a less-than-ideal incident from her Hunger Games days. "I also once took an Ambien in the morning, thinking it was something else," she revealed. "It was a dance scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second Hunger Games movie. I was hallucinating."
As she shared more about the day's events, Lawrence added that her behavior on set didn't go unnoticed by one of her costars. "Elizabeth Banks got really annoyed with me," she laughed.
Lawrence's admission follows another big reveal she made about her film work, sharing that she and friend Emma Stone are producing a Miss Piggy movie written by Oh, Mary!'s Cole Escola. "I don't know if I can announce this, but I am just going to," Lawrence said on the November 5 episode of the Las Culturistas podcast. "Emma Stone and I are producing a Miss Piggy movie and Cole is writing it."
She later opened up about the origins of the project, reflecting during an appearance on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon on November 5. "During lockdown, one of my good friends who is not in the industry—it was also kind of around cancel culture, both things were kind of happening at once," she said. "She was like, 'You know, it would be so funny if Miss Piggy got canceled.'" She continued to laugh from the crowd, "And that is not the plot necessarily, but it got the wheels turning, like, 'Wait, there hasn't actually been a feminist Miss Piggy-starring movie.'"
