Jennifer Lawrence Shares Set Medication Mix-Ups in DiCaprio Interview

Jennifer Lawrence shared humorous yet chaotic anecdotes from her acting career during a recent interview with Leonardo DiCaprio, revealing how accidental medication mix-ups disrupted filming on two major projects. The conversation, part of Variety's Actors on Actors series aired on December 17, focused on their shared obsession with sleep while working, leading Lawrence to recount incidents that left her disoriented on set.

Lawrence described a particularly vivid mishap while filming "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" in 2012. Intending to rest before a shoot, she mistakenly took a strong sleep aid, Ambien, in the morning, believing it to be a different pill. The scene involved her character, Katniss Everdeen, dancing with Philip Seymour Hoffman's Plutarch Heavensbee at a lavish Capitol party, where Katniss first encounters the new Head Gamemaker. "I was hallucinating," Lawrence said. "Elizabeth Banks got really annoyed with me." Banks, who played the flamboyant Effie Trinket, was parading Katniss and Peeta Mellark through the event. Lawrence noted that her drug-induced bewilderment inadvertently suited the character's intended disorientation amid the Capitol's opulent excesses,...