No Celebrity Has ZERO Filter Like Jennifer Lawrence…and it’s HILARIOUS! | HO!!!!
Just when you think Hollywood is all polished scripts and PR-approved smiles, Jennifer Lawrence shows up, eats a trash snack
If you guys don’t know, this is where babies come from. Yeah, because I’m gay. Bye.
The sentence landed somewhere between a confession and a grenade. The host’s face did that thing faces do when the brain realizes the script just caught fire. And Jennifer Lawrence?
She was already gone. Not literally. She was still sitting there in her interview chair, looking like someone who had just won a bet she forgot she placed. But mentally, she had left the building approximately four seconds after walking in. That is the thing about Jennifer Lawrence. She does not do polished. She has never done polished. And at this point, everyone has stopped pretending she ever will.
What did you learn from Jennifer Lawrence? Um, she taught me how to pee in the woods.
Wow, that’s fantastic, yeah. I’m going to write that down.
What is your go-to face to ruin a photo?
Solid. Yeah. There’s also mousy. The I—Oh, wait. No, this one’s better.
From sabotaging her own red carpet photos at the Oscars to making Stephen Colbert completely glitch on live television, Jennifer Lawrence does not do polished. And nobody has ever figured out how to stop her.
Not the publicists who probably keep a bottle of something strong in their desks just for her. Not the producers who schedule her segments with extra buffer time that never gets used. Not the hosts who walk into interviews thinking they have finally cracked the code. They never crack the code. The code cracks them.
We will start with 190 and go to 123.
Like an auction, right?
Yes. You guys are going to take it away. What do I do? I what? Wait, sorry. What—What do I do?
The host had a very specific plan for this interview. Jennifer Lawrence heard the plan and treated it like a suggestion. That is not rudeness. That is something closer to a superpower.
She has the ability to hear a structured interview format and immediately understand that structure is a cage. And Jennifer Lawrence does not do cages. She does not even do cubicles. She does whatever the opposite of a cubicle is. A field. A very wet field during a thunderstorm. That is where Jennifer Lawrence lives.
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Why do you call him Bear? What do you call Liam—Bear?
He’s an animal. He and his whole family, they’re—they’re real animals.
All the Hemsworths are animals.
It’s the craziest family I’ve ever been around in my life.
I love that emergency lipstick.
Yeah, I know. I should hide it from the camera.
Yeah. And if you guys don’t know, this is where babies come from.
Uh—oh, what was the process?
I don’t know. I just woke up and tried on the dress and it fit, thank God, and then—and then um I had to get a shower and—I don’t know what I was—that’s what I did and then I got my hair and makeup done.
What do we got here? So, uh let’s see. You’re taking a year off.
I was, yeah.
Why? What?
Cuz I’m so miserable.
No, I’m kidding. Um what are you going to—what do you mean taking a year off?
I’m not. I’m not.
Jennifer Lawrence stopped pretending somewhere around 2013. The hosts never recovered. This is where the interview stops being professional and starts becoming damage control. Before a certain point in her career, Jennifer Lawrence was just another rising star. She did the Hunger Games premieres.
She smiled for the cameras. She answered the soft lob questions about Katniss and archery and what it felt like to carry a franchise on her shoulders. And then something shifted. Maybe she got tired. Maybe she realized the whole thing was theater and decided to set the curtains on fire. Maybe she just stopped caring in the most productive way possible.
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Before—what was today like?
Today was stressful and I had no time to eat. I’m starving.
Yes, well you can eat. There’s like twelve—here. There’s twelve plates afterwards. Wolfgang was here earlier talking about afterwards. Now, why was it stressful today?
Sorry, I’m so stressed out. Jennifer Lawrence, no hard feelings.
No, no you will not. You will not. I promise you. I promise you. So, it’s hard to find a man that—
Yeah, because I’m gay. Bye.
No, Jennifer—I spoke to Elizabeth at SNL and she got—she said I outed her because she talked about the falling down. She was like, “You outed me.” And I said, “But everyone talked about it.”
Like one time like, “Oh, hee hee hee.” And then the next year consecutively. And then every single time I mean heels—it looks like I’m like ba na ba na ba na ba na—and I’m not. I don’t think it’s funny at all.
The best part is not even what Jennifer Lawrence says first. It is the moment the host realizes there is no steering wheel anymore. By the time they catch up, Jennifer Lawrence is already three jokes ahead.
Four if she had a snack before the interview. Five if she is hungry, and Jennifer Lawrence is almost always hungry. That is a recurring theme. She mentions food the way other celebrities mention gratitude. Constantly, specifically, and with an intensity that suggests she has not eaten since approximately 2009.
THEY’RE RIGHT.
DID THE DOCTOR REALLY SAY THAT? WHICH MADE everything a lot worse.
No, no. Oh my god. All right, well you didn’t say anything, did you? Yeah, yeah. She’s complimenting me. What? He—he’d love to hear that and he’d probably agree.
These are supposed to be Jennifer Lawrence funny interviews. Somehow they keep turning into hostage situations with better lighting. And Jennifer Lawrence was just getting started.
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I—I have to—I have to warn you in advance that I have no idea how long my horn is.
Wow. And that’s what she said.
Jennifer Lawrence is fresh. All right, mate. Ha ha ha ha.
Supposedly relatable, but you actually seem like a human being.
Oh, thank you.
Yeah. Thanks. Do you enjoy being a human being because human beings have a lot of frailty?
Yeah, yeah, they’re not perfect.
No, where are you going with this?
Don’t want to touch that part. This is really slippery from my sweat.
What did you learn from Jennifer Lawrence? Um, she taught me how to pee in the woods.
Wow, that’s fantastic, yeah. Should there be—she’s like huddled on the floor in her bathroom naked—
Yeah, and then they’re all ganging up on me and I’m naked. I’ve burst into her bathroom with a BB gun while she was trying to pee in her front yard.
He was like, “Hey, I just wrapped something like a block away from you.” He comes in and I give him a hug and he’s like, “Do you have any food? I’m so hungry.” And I do have food, but it’s in the trash. And so while he was in the bathroom, I was just like pulling food out of my garbage. When he was finished, he was like, “I’m—I’m still hungry, is there no more?” And I’m like, “Well, there is, but it’s—it’s in the garbage.”
And he was like, “I don’t mind.”
Hopefully we gave those people hope and made people realize that it’s not—it—the you know, it doesn’t—we—whatever. You know what I’m trying to say. I’m so hungry. God.
That is the thing nobody tells you about Jennifer Lawrence. She is not trying to be chaotic. The chaos is just her natural state. She does not wake up in the morning and think, “How can I make this interviewer question their entire career?” She wakes up, probably hungry, probably already thinking about whatever weird thing is going to come out of her mouth next, and then she just shows up. The chaos follows her like a very loud, very confused shadow.
On a normal red carpet, celebrities talk designers, poses, and whatever graceful sentence their publicist approved ten minutes earlier. Jennifer Lawrence shows up like someone dared her to ruin the mood.
I’m sorry, I did a shot before I—sorry.
At the Golden Globes, Jennifer Lawrence is supposed to be doing glamorous movie star behavior. Instead, her face starts telling the truth before her mouth even gets involved.
Um, is it purple, really?
Under there. Oh, okay. Yeah. Yes, yes, it is.
You recently were ill-used in the defense of Harvey Weinstein.
Yes. Okay.
What?
He is just—he is just—
Other celebrities give the safe red carpet answer. Jennifer Lawrence makes it feel like the red carpet wandered into her group chat. You think you are getting a princess moment. You are not.
You are getting whatever Jennifer Lawrence feels like saying at that exact second, and what she feels like saying is usually something that makes a publicist in the wings put their head in their hands and whisper a single word that cannot be printed here.
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What did you do for the last three years?
I just had a ton of sex.
OH MY GOD. SORRY. WE JUST KISSED ON camera and I liked it. You got a bit of Jennifer Lawrence on your face.
I’ll get—I’ll get Jennifer Lawrence off my face. Jennifer Lawrence is way better than Jennifer Lawrence. Do you agree?
Yeah. Much better. I love her. Prettier, funnier.
Yes. Better movies. Yeah. Yeah. Overall. Yeah. Great. I’m Jennifer Lawrence. Is Jennifer Lawrence quitting Hollywood?
I don’t know if it’ll be my choice. I think I’m more likely to be fired from Hollywood.
The Oscars are supposed to be the most polished night in Hollywood. Jennifer Lawrence turned the Academy Awards into one of the most searched celebrity moments of her career. The Oscar stairs. Jennifer Lawrence. Everyone remembers what happened next. The trip. The stumble. The recovery that somehow made it worse and better at the same time. She fell up the stairs. Not down. Up. That takes talent. That takes a specific kind of physical comedy that cannot be rehearsed. And the moment she hit those stairs, something changed. The Oscars stopped being a ceremony and started being a Jennifer Lawrence moment.
The queen has arrived now. How are you, gorgeous? You look beautiful. Wait, I have to—I have to get at least a little one right there. How are you feeling?
Amazing. Really, really, really good. I knew you were going to win though. Everybody did. You did such a great job and you had the momentum coming in.
Everybody knew and nobody told me?
Tell you?
God.
Or did you—
Yeah, of course I was shocked. I can’t believe all of you guys were like, “Oh, hold on.”
Even the interviewer is trying to keep this moving like a normal celebrity moment. Jennifer Lawrence does not reward normal.
That’s what I heard. You actually went to the premiere of your movie after that. Did it show?
Um—well, I—my—I—I tried to overdo it and was like, “Don’t look drunk. This is me sober. I’m not slurring. My eyebrows aren’t slurring.” Yeah, I did too. I put on—I listened to murder and—I’m—and I—I’m sorry, you what?
My murder podcast.
Murder podcast. I thought you literally listened to that—
WHAT’S THAT, HONEY?
My roommates ARE REALLY WEIRD. EXACTLY. Um okay, she’s uh married to Ben Affleck. Jennifer Garner’s husband.
I don’t know why I’m so nervous.
I AM KILLING IT!
SHE WON AN ACADEMY AWARD FOR A Beautiful Mind. JENNIFER CONNELLY.
YES.
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Stephen Colbert had a plan for this Late Show interview. That was adorable. Jennifer Lawrence sits down and the format immediately starts sweating.
I talked to the wardrobe lady about it and I was like, “I think I’m going to ask him for his number. I’m going to give him my number.” And she was like, “Honey, HE’S ENGAGED.”
I WAS LIKE, “COOL. GOOD TALK.”
WE SHOULD HAVE HAD YOU DO A TOAST AT OUR WEDDING.
I WOULD HAVE RUINED IT WITHOUT YOU.
DANCERS—very good dancers.
Remember the time we go to Coachella? Nobody wants—I go to Coachella and I’m LIKE I’M GOOD FIRE.
The thing about Jennifer Lawrence on talk shows is that she does not treat the host like a host. She treats him like some guy trapped next to her in an elevator. That is when the interview stops being controlled and starts being Jennifer Lawrence.
Hey Stephen—
Yeah, Jennifer—
If you could go back in time and give yourself a piece of advice, what would it be?
Don’t forget to build the time machine.
Hey, what’s your biggest regret?
Not helping that raccoon get his head out of the mayonnaise jar.
What’s yours?
My biggest regret is eating that mayonnaise-covered raccoon.
If you could only drink one cocktail for the rest of your life, what would it be?
Scotch on the rocks.
Really?
No, gin martini.
Really?
Dark and stormy?
What’s that?
I don’t know what it is. To get it fixed.
I bet you could make your way through a steak.
Yeah, and—and Meryl kind of said, “That’s right, just tell the old goat where to go.” And I was like, “Meryl, you know that goat means greatest of all time, right?”
Stephen Colbert is a professional. He knows how to handle movie stars, politicians, chaos, and live television. Then, Jennifer Lawrence finds the one button nobody told him about.
We’re already having fun over here. What’s up? I’m Dash.
And I’m Lil. And we’re going to tell you about Come Dance With Us, our new video series. We’re going to invite you to come dance with us. We do all sorts of dances, like this one. Check the door. Check the door. Check the door. Check the nut. Check the nut. Check the nut. Achoo. Peekaboo. Achoo. I turned the other way and you went and I walked away. You grabbed me. I was having a fun time. Our mouths are small, so we—
So—big that doesn’t affect our dancing.
Jimmy Fallon tried a different approach on The Tonight Show. It did not save him.
You have something on your nose. Is it a booger?
Yeah.
I FELT IT.
DID YOU FEEL IT?
I TOTALLY FELT IT. WHEN DID IT shoot out?
I was just like, “We’re on TV. There’s no way a booger came OUT OF IT.”
I’M ALWAYS USED—I ALWAYS TALK so fast cuz I’m used to my brothers just being like, “Finish, finish, shut up.”
No, please. I feel like nobody wants to hear me talk. I want to hear. I want to—yogurt—yogurt—yogurt just came out of your nose.
So, I’m at a friend—I’m in Paris for the first time, again for movies and—that’s fun. Foo foo foo. I was in like one of those cool Tom Ford dresses with the zips and everything, and um I saw Francis Ford Coppola, but it actually was Francis Ford Coppola. It’s really weird.
And I was like, “Oh my god, it’s Francis Ford Coppola.”
JUST SAY “FRANCIS.”
I HAD TEA WITH THE POPE. I WAS THE ONLY ONE—drinking. I was the only one who had tea. So, it really was Francis Ford Coppola. It really was Francis Ford Coppola. Godfather, I mean, come on. Two. Yeah, I’m feeling two as well. Envelope two. Interesting. Interesting. Already.
Interesting.
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I once took an Ambien before filming a scene in The Hunger Games.
Was this scene—was it in the scene where you were sleeping in the scene?
Well, I just generally, um, once I enter a public place, I become incredibly rude. I turn into a huge—
You get icy.
Yeah, and that’s kind of like my only way of defending myself. It’s just being—
Put the black tape.
Being an—like, see somebody walking towards my table, just go—or like, “Can I have a selfie?” And I’m like, “No.”
Jimmy Kimmel thought he was ready. Every host thinks that once. Jennifer Lawrence has one setting. Every host eventually figures this out.
Who’s a better kisser, Liam Hemsworth or Bradley Cooper?
Um—
Close your eyes and try to remember.
Bradley.
Bad about you. I like—stop. No, don’t you psych me out. I like you. I like you so much.
You are so stupid that your three-year-old son has probably taught you everything you know. You are so old that your publicist is a registered nurse.
Imagine, I mean, we talked about this a little bit when you did Comic-Con and we chatted about it, but you told me that it was extremely emotional. The last shot, the last day.
Yeah, it was weird. It was true—I mean, we didn’t want to let go of each other, me, Josh, Woody, and Liam. Just kind of kept—I mean, Josh and Liam and I got really codependent towards wrapping and we changed our call times and would ride in the same car and wouldn’t be anywhere apart. So, then we kept getting anxiety about leaving the apartment and then eventually we didn’t and we all just held each other and slept.
Oh, you all slept together?
Like yeah, we just held—held onto each other forever. Right.
I’ve never seen my mom more drunk in our lives. We were worried.
I was way more drunk than your mom.
And if the hosts are not safe, the co-stars never had a chance. Jennifer Lawrence does not just answer press questions. Jennifer Lawrence turns the whole press tour into a group survival test. Imagine showing up to promote a movie and realizing halfway through that your co-star has decided the only acceptable way to do this is to say whatever enters her brain at that exact moment. You cannot prepare for that. You can only hold on and hope she does not mention the thing she mentioned last night at dinner. She will mention it. She always mentions it.
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That’s anesthesia—so I—oh, that’s so cool. Oh my god. What color—is this?
Anytime I had to kiss Jennifer was pretty uncomfortable. Pretty awkward.
Kissing Jennifer Lawrence is uncomfortable?
Well, yeah, I mean, look, when you look at it on the outside it looks like a great picture, you know.
Who’s in the—who’s in the film? Um Kim Basinger, me, Charlize Theron and um—yeah, so Kim Basinger wasn’t there. We were doing an international press conference and so somebody said, you know, like, “Where is Kim Basinger?” And I just leaned into the microphone and was like, “You didn’t hear? Kim died.”
And then there was like a beat while it got translated and then IT WAS LIKE—and then I got ripped off the stage, thrown into media training, which was hilarious.
Jennifer Lawrence treats a movie anecdote like she’s testifying under oath.
I didn’t see a lot of myself in this character. We are very different personalities. We handle things in a very different way. And how—how was working with Edgar Ramirez?
Um working with Edgar was wonderful. He is so sweet. He’s great, a terrific actor. I mean, doing scenes with him is phenomenal. Um he really helped me with Spanish. Um all of it’s gone now. Um but I love working with Edgar. When we had our reading together, it was, you know, we read with so many amazing actors and the moment Edgar left, we were like, that’s the one. There he is.
The hardest hand set for me is probably—if you see the movie you’ll know exactly which day was the hardest day for me. That was tough. I would never want to go to a place like that ever again.
During The Hunger Games press tour, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth were supposed to be promoting a global franchise. Jennifer Lawrence kept promoting chaos.
I read him for a bit.
That was a—yeah. I mean they got a divorce like two years later and everybody WAS LIKE JENNIFER LAWRENCE AND I WAS LIKE—IT WAS JEN.
I WAS LIKE WELL I’M JUST IN MONTREAL.
How do you feel—how do you see yourself for the Oscars night?
Live your own life behind your phone, bro. Oh. You’re just not going to be—can’t do that. You got to live in the now. Oh, sorry. Sorry. Sorry.
Bradley Cooper already knew Jennifer Lawrence from Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, which means he understood the risk. Knowing the risk did not protect him. Nothing protects anyone. That is the thing about Jennifer Lawrence. She is not mean. She is not trying to make anyone look bad. She is simply incapable of performing the version of herself that the industry wants. The industry wants a movie star. Jennifer Lawrence wants to tell you about the food she pulled out of the garbage.
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This is what makes Jennifer Lawrence different from a normal movie star interview. She can be promoting The Hunger Games, Silver Linings Playbook, X-Men, Passengers, Don’t Look Up, or No Hard Feelings, and somehow the real headline becomes whatever escaped her mouth first. That is not bad press. That is Jennifer Lawrence press. There is a difference. Bad press happens when a celebrity says something offensive or out of touch or deeply weird in a way that makes everyone uncomfortable. Jennifer Lawrence press happens when a celebrity says something so unfiltered and so clearly honest that everyone in the room stops and thinks, “Wait, was she supposed to say that?” And then she says something else and the moment passes and everyone realizes that yes, she was absolutely supposed to say that. The universe has been waiting for someone to say that.
All right, I want to walk you down the Manny Cam here. Let me slide this in, Tom. Oh god. Jennifer Lawrence. Hang on. I told him—I told him I would do this. Are you dead? Wait, no I can’t actually do it. No, I can’t do it. You’re going to do it. NO, I’LL DO IT. DO IT. Your ass is mine, Stone.
Thoughts on Jax and Brittany’s relationship? Would you have taken him back?
Brittany, please. I’ve been in these kind of relationships before. You are going to be so much better on your own. You’ll be lonely for a little bit. Get out of there. He’s the Reiki master. I promise.
What are you most excited for in the new season of Real Housewives of New York?
I mean I don’t want to say it. I don’t know if it’s a sore spot, but I’m really looking forward to that episode where the ship sinks.
Another thing you share is quite short-lived careers in modeling.
Oh, I thought you just said short term memory. Wow.
Jennifer Lawrence became famous at the exact level where Hollywood usually starts sanding off every rough edge. Somehow, Jennifer Lawrence got rougher. It is like she looked at the Hollywood machine and said, “That’s nice, but I think I’ll keep my sharp parts, thank you.” And she did. She kept all of them. And then she found more sharp parts she did not even know she had.
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Feeling nine’s going to be a bomb.
No, don’t—don’t—don’t open nine yet. Yeah, YEAH, OKAY, GOOD. NINE! ALL RIGHT. THAT WAS CRAZY. What would you—what—what was the question about the fart?
It was—yeah, when—when it happened, where it happened.
When it happened, where it was. I think I was like—I think I was like packing and it just kind of came out and I went, “OOP, SCOOZY.”
HOW DID HE REACT?
HE GOES, “To be fair, it was kind of a cute way to fart when you say excuse me.” And I was like, “Right?” Yeah, and then they got more and more un-cute.
Yeah, no, I imagine. You feeling okay?
Just bloated.
Well, honey, that’s a good thing. Just a little. Yeah, but—
Most celebrities have a persona. Jennifer Lawrence has a reflex. The thought appears, the filter fails, and suddenly everyone in the room is dealing with it. That is why Jennifer Lawrence no filter moments hit differently. They do not feel like jokes written for an interview. They feel like the sentence got out before Hollywood could tackle it. You can almost see the moment in every host’s eyes. The moment when they realize there is no recovery. There is no steering this back to the talking points. There is only survival. And Jennifer Lawrence is already three exits ahead of them, waving from the off-ramp.
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Every host had a script. Every red carpet had a protocol. Every interviewer had a plan. Jennifer Lawrence ignored all of it every single time. From the Oscar red carpet to The Tonight Show, from The Hunger Games press tour to the Golden Globes, Jennifer Lawrence has been one of the most unfiltered people in Hollywood for over a decade. And nobody has ever figured out how to stop her. Not because she is untouchable. Not because she is so famous that no one dares. But because stopping her would require her to care about being stopped. And Jennifer Lawrence has never once demonstrated that she cares about that. She cares about food. She cares about her friends. She cares about telling the truth in a way that makes people laugh so hard they forget to breathe. But being stopped? That is not on the list.
There is a specific moment in every Jennifer Lawrence interview that you can feel if you are paying attention. It happens about ninety seconds in. The host asks a question. A normal question. Something about the movie, the character, the process. And Jennifer Lawrence pauses. Not because she is thinking. But because she is deciding how much of the truth she is going to give. And then she gives all of it. Not in a dramatic way. Not in a rehearsed way. In the same way someone tells you what they had for breakfast. Just matter of fact. Just true.
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I once asked my publicist if I could just do all my interviews from my bathtub. She said no. But she also said that about seventeen other things, and I did most of them anyway. So maybe next time.
That is not a real quote from Jennifer Lawrence. But it could be. That is the thing. It absolutely could be. And that is why she works. That is why after all these years, after all the movies, after all the red carpets and the talk shows and the moments that went viral before anyone even knew what viral meant, Jennifer Lawrence is still the most unpredictable person in any room she walks into. Not because she tries. But because she cannot help it.
She is like a force of nature that happens to do press. You do not interview a hurricane. You just stand there and hope you are still standing when it passes.
Drop a comment. Which Jennifer Lawrence moment made you realize she was built completely differently? Was it the Oscar fall? The booger on live television? The time she told an entire international press conference that a co-star had died as a joke? The garbage food story? The raccoon and the mayonnaise jar? The Ambien before filming? The honest answer about what she did for three years? There are so many to choose from. That is the point. Most celebrities give you one moment. One clip. One thing that lives forever on the internet. Jennifer Lawrence has given us a whole archive. And she is not done yet. She will never be done. Because as long as there are cameras and microphones and hosts who think they are ready, Jennifer Lawrence will keep showing up and saying the thing that makes everyone in the room remember why they started watching interviews in the first place.
Not for the answers. For the possibility. The possibility that someone might finally tell the truth.
And nobody has ever figured out how to stop her.