Jennifer Lawrence is stunning on the cover of the September issue of Vogue, and her interview with the magazine reiterates how witty, lovable and down-to-earth the "Hunger Games" star truly is.
Lawrence talks candidly, as per usual, to Vogue about her fame, her career and what she does to keep herself "normal." Here are quick highlights from the starlet's feature.
On her love of new sponges:
"I wake up earlier in the morning when I have new sponges. That counter doesn't even see it coming." She segued into her incomprension at people who don't share her "faith in sponges" and then finally landed on her relationship with ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult, with whom she's still very close (they're shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past together). "He would never wring them out. We were in the kitchen once, and I picked up the sponge, and it was soapy and wet, and I was like, 'See?' These are the kinds of things that make me think we are never going to work."
J.Law's goofiness:
The folks who know her best (which is to say, other actors and directors, as she has lived from one film set to the next for most of her adult life) all point to this playful side of Lawrence-this "giant goofball," as one person put it-as the most important thing about her. Her Hunger Games costar Woody Harrelson says she creates an atmosphere on set of constant game-playing. "She is one-of-a-kind, man. She is so herself. I love how she doesn't censor herself. She says the most outrageous shit. Just incredible, the stuff she'll say."
Having her best friend double as an assistant:
"I'm still doing what a 23-year-old should be doing, which is hanging out with my friend and being normal. I still have to put the dishes away. And I still have to listen. When you've been doing press for a very long time, you talk about yourself constantly. My biggest fear is that I'm going to take that into the real world."
Jennifer's thoughts of Katniss and "The Hunger Games:"
"When Winter's Bone was getting nominated," says Lawrence, "I had only done indies, and suddenly I was introduced to this brand-new world where I didn't feel like myself. I was in these weird gowns and listening to people talk about things I didn't understand. And I remember reading that in the book and being like, Oh, my God, I know exactly what this feels like.
I don't know what it's like to get ready for your death, but I do know what it's like to be almost a puppet. And then when I was making the second film, I had become more acquainted with that world, and I think that's something that Katniss experiences. She is different when she comes back. She does feel more comfortable in the Capitol; she understands the people more, and it's not as eerie and scary and unfamiliar. She kind of knows how to work the system."
About her fame:
"It's just that I'm still getting used to everything. It still makes me a little emotional, just to see how quickly everything kind of changes ... that it changes so fast. So I've kind of been a big homebody lately. But I think eventually, one of these days, I guess when the next franchise starts and I'm not in it, and the new Jennifer Lawrence is born, then I'll be able to go outside."
