"I'm pregnant," Jennifer Lawrence tells me with deadpan solemnity, swirling a goblet of red wine. Then, seeing my eyes widen, she shakes her head vigorously. "Not really! Quite the opposite, actually..."
We're sitting in an empty bar at the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in Atlanta, not far from where Lawrence, in her role as the longbow-wielding Katniss Everdeen, is filming the third and fourth installments of The Hunger Games franchise, Mockingjay-Part 1, due out in November, and Mockingjay-Part 2, a November 2015 release. Our allotted time is just about up, and I've demanded a juicy piece of gossip in exchange for promising to keep out of print whatever career-ending comments she may have already uttered. (Nobody ever said celebrity journalism was pretty.)
By "quite the opposite," the actress means it's that time of the month, which may seem quite the overshare, even coming from the girl who introduced the world to the perils of "armpit vagina" while wearing Dior Haute Couture at this year's Screen Actors Guild Awards. But it is crucial to bear in mind when you hear her fulminate about various annoyances, from fans who interrupt her during meals to Anne Hathaway's online haters to, yes, the paparazzi.
Credits: vest, $725, 3.1 Phillip Lim; pants $575 Sportsmax
For Lawrence's full interview, pick up a copy of Marie Claire's June issue on newsstands on May 20th. Check out some of the best quotes from the interview below!
On maintaining a long-distance relationship with Nicholas Hoult: "When we're busy, we agree to mutually ignore each other. Not completely, but neither of us gets mad when the other doesn't text back or call. Life's super-busy. Obviously you know what they're doing, and you trust them. We're so young that it would almost be like if we lived in the same city, what would happen? We'd be living together. At least this way he's in the same boat as I am: We can go out and have our own lives and know that we have each other."
Credits: coat, price upon request, Céline; pants, $690, Derek Lam; ring, $400, Tiffany & Co.; sneakers, $295, Michael Kors
On a conspiracy theory suggesting that her tendency to trip over her own feet at the Academy Awards is part of a devious plot to appear authentic: "I'm trying to do the right thing, waving to fans, trying to be nice, and there's a traffic cone. The second I hit it, I was laughing, but on the inside I was like, 'You're fucked. They're totally going to think this is an act...' But trust me if I was going to plan it, I would have done it at the Golden Globes or the SAGs. I would have never done it at two Oscars in a row. I watch Homeland—I'm craftier than that!"
On suffering from abdominal pains and panic attacks during the press tour for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire: "I was so freaked out, I called my publicist crying. I had to cancel Chelsea Handler. I was terrified to get on a plane to New York because I was convinced I had an ulcer that was bleeding. I went to the hospital. There was a bit of blood in my stomach, but they said it was nothing to worry about. I was like, 'Really? Because I'm pretty worried!'"
On fame making it hard for her to be the person she was raised to be: "I'm a lot more closed off and frankly probably rude. I mean, I'm from Kentucky. I used to be very personable and make eye contact and smile at people, and now all I do is look down. When I'm at dinner and one person after another keeps interrupting to take pictures, it's like, 'I can't live like this.'"
Credits: dress, $2,669, Peter Pilotto; ear cuff, price upon request, Repossi
On her candor: "I'm not like, 'I'm a rebel; I'm out of control.' I just don't think about things before I say them or do them."
On friendship: "I don't trust a girl who doesn't have any girlfriends. I have really close girlfriends, but they are guys like me—girls who eat and don't know anything about fashion."
Credits: coat $4,200, Dior
On rumors that she's jealous of Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult's costar in the upcoming sci-fi romance Equals: "There was something in a magazine, and I was like, 'Oh, my God, that's hilarious,' because Kristen and I are friends. I actually texted her a picture of it and was like, 'Just so you know, this is absolutely true.'"
On being up against Lupita Nyong'o for the 2014 Best Supporting Actress Oscar: "I was very happy I voted for Lupita. It's beautiful when you watch something good happen to somebody when it's well deserved."
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