Jennifer Lawrence Gives the No-Filter, No-B.S. Interview of Your Dreams

JL: I've wanted it for a long time. My first director was a female director, at 16, Lori Petty [in The Poker House]. I got bit by the same bug that bit me with acting. I've tried to absorb every director I've worked with like a sponge. I've been making notes for seven years.

CL: And there's [the science fiction movie] Passengers. People keep describing Chris Pratt as the male Jennifer Lawrence. Do you see that at all?

JL: Yeah. But I'm a little meaner. [Laughs.] Chris Pratt is always in a good mood. We laugh all day…. He's like a chocolate Santa. He's just like if a dog came to life and was like, "I'm a great actor with a perfect face." And he's got the most lovely family. When I met Anna [Faris, Pratt's wife], I was like, "Go f--k yourselves." I mean that in the nicest possible way. They're like a Nicholas Sparks novel—just like, "Ewww! But I want it!" But he's also a great actor.

CL: Chocolate Santa has chops?

JL: He's an amazing actor and is making this movie a lot better.

CL: It's interesting, your saying you think you're meaner than him. You never seem mean at all.

JL: I think I think pretty cruelly. [Laughs.] Never act on it.

CL: Well, there are a million GIFs of you that say: "Trips up the stairs, still the most likable person on the planet." You know that's your reputation.

JL: I spilled milk this morning. Last night I spilled red wine all over the rug. All I want to be able to do is just walk from one place to another without falling! It's so annoying, honestly. And now I've gone from the charming, like, "Oh my God, whoops, I fell"—now it really pisses me off. 'Cause it's embarrassing now. So now I fall, and I'm like, "Stop looking at me! Don't take a picture!"

CL: But what about the conspiracy theory, that it's all [fake]?

JL: That's why it's embarrassing! That's why I want to be able to stop doing it. When I fell the second year at the Oscars, I was just like, "F--k." 'Cause I would think the same exact thing. I know it looks like a gag. It's really, really not.

CL: Do you ever think about doing social media? It would be completely within your control, as opposed to the GIFs and all that.

JL: No, because then that's more exposure—that's just more me. I want less me. I want people to have less me.

CL: [Laughs.] I don't think people want less you.

JL: But they do! They don't know that they do. But when they get more me, they'll hate me. If they don't already.

CL: Do you feel like you're misunderstood in any way?

JL: I don't feel like I'm misunderstood. I feel like I'm over-paid-attention-to. I'm not trying to be a GIF. I'm not trying to be a picked-up-on-Twitter quote. All I'm trying to do is act. And I have to promote these movies. And I am, at the end of the day, I guess, a f--king lunatic. So if you record what I'm saying, it's gonna be goofy. [Laughs and throws arms out.] What do I do? What do I do? I'm just a girl, sitting in front of the world and asking them to forgive her for speaking.