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Jennifer Lawrence recalls 'hallucinating' memory of dancing with Philip Seymour Hoffman on The Hunger Games' sets

Jennifer Lawrence recently opened up about taken Ambien on the sets of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, which led to her hallucinating while dancing with Philip Seymour Hoffman

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Hollywood star Jennifer Lawrence who is returning for a new The Hunger Games film, recently shared a humorous anecdote from the sets of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She will be reprising her role as Katniss Everdeen in her upcoming film, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.

Recently, while appearing on Variety's Actors on Actors series with The Revenant star Leonardo DiCaprio, she recounted her days while starring in some of the earlier films in The Hunger Games franchise. While the two of them spoke about their careers and how they have been working so far, they both discussed what kind of mistakes and bad habits they have while shooting. Lawrence shared that she can't cooperate properly without sufficient hours of sleep, and due to this problem she ended up causing trouble to fellow stars during the filming of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. She further shared, "I also once took an Ambien in the morning, thinking it was something else. It was a dance sequence with Philip Seymour Hoffman of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire." She then recalled that it made her co-star Elizabeth Banks get really frustrated. "Maybe she did know not that, I was hallucinating."

DiCaprio, when speaking about the bad habits he developed over the years, said that he would often come up with many ideas while shooting a film, most of which were often unnecessary. “My bad habit is I’m so good at letting go at the end of the day, that I don’t think about the next day. And then it’s a mad scramble in the hair and makeup trailer."

Lawrence gained recognition with films like Winter's Bone and The Hunger Games series, She was last seen in No Hard Feelings and Causeway and she appeared in Die My Love, a psychological drama released this year and she is also been reportedly attached to Martin Scorsese's next film, What Happens at Night alongside DiCaprio, with filming expected to begin in early 2026.

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