Jennifer Lawrence

Summary

Good Hang with Amy Poehler

Episode: Jennifer Lawrence
Release Date: January 20, 2026
Host: Amy Poehler
Guest: Jennifer Lawrence
Special Guest: Justine Shiraki (Jennifer’s longtime friend and producing partner)

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Episode Overview

In this lively and candid episode, Amy Poehler hangs out with acclaimed actress Jennifer Lawrence for a conversation that’s equal parts funny, heartfelt, and revealing. They’re joined briefly by Justine Shiraki, Jen’s best friend and producing partner at Excellent Cadaver. Topics span Jennifer’s approach to acting, friendship, parenthood, body image, fashion philosophy, comedy, and even an impromptu karaoke session. Throughout, the original tone is playful, warm, and unfiltered.

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Highlights & Key Discussion Points

1. Friendship & Career with Justine Shiraki (00:00–10:00)

• Amy welcomes Justine Shiraki to discuss her long partnership with Jennifer and their journey together.
• Shared history: Justine and Jen bonded through an early shared passion for film, discovering everything from Wong Kar Wai to Sex and the City (04:43).
• Creative alignment: Both care deeply about the same things, shaping their choices as producers (04:43).
• On Jennifer:

  "She had this like abandon and lack of self consciousness that was really unfamiliar to all of our friends."
  — Justine Shiraki (03:50)

• Friendship at the center: Their relationship has remained grounded despite Jen's early, meteoric success.

Memorable moment:

• Justine suggests Amy ask Jen what she’d love to talk about, highlighting Jennifer’s self-awareness and openness (09:03).

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2. Style, Body Image, and Realness (10:31–15:00)

• Amy on Jen’s style:
  "Your style is so dope… you have great style." (10:47)
• Jennifer’s approach to clothes: Regular closet clean-outs, New York practicality, mentally planning outfits for the week, and making sure to present as “effortless” (11:19–11:49).
• Jen’s Fashion Rule:

  "Big goes with big… baggy on the bottom and tight on the top, but you cannot do the other way around."
  — Jennifer Lawrence (12:04)

• Both discuss how body type (short legs/long torso) impacts their clothing choices and how hard it is to find comfort and confidence at the same time.
• Body honesty: Jen talks honestly about postpartum experiences, feeling “skinny” after her second pregnancy, and how she expected but didn’t get “Ozempic rumors” (14:05).

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3. Owning Authenticity & Womanhood (15:00–18:00)

• Supporting women: Amy observes that the way Jen speaks and shares her experiences is a way of championing other women.

• “Basically, I think when people stay mysterious, it’s like a disservice to other women… you’re trying to be honest in real time and trying to connect.”
  — Amy Poehler (15:18)

• Fame vs. realness:

  “You are so famous and so real, and those two things are not always the case.”
  — Amy Poehler (16:18)

• Jen jokes about being “famous, erotic, and real and deeply funny,” showcasing the episode’s playful tone (17:03).
• The pair discuss how language and culture move—and trying (often failing!) to keep up with teen slang like “boots” (18:12–18:40).

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4. Generational Shifts & Millennial Destiny (19:00–20:44)

• Aging & generational perspective: Jen and Amy discuss feeling older, their respective generations (millennial and Gen X), and the book The Fourth Turning, which posits millennials as the generation that will “save things” (19:31).
• Gentle parenting: Reflecting on parenting trends and what’s changed over the years.

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5. Jennifer’s Wild Origin Story (20:54–23:56)

• How she was discovered: On a New York trip from Louisville as a teen, a talent scout asked to take her photo—the start of her career (21:01).
• Fateful moment:

  “If he had, like, told us to meet him at a hotel room, we 100% would have.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence (21:17)

• Jen recalls the surreal moment of that original street photo appearing years later—on Joe Jonas' t-shirt at a concert (21:42).
• She explains her transition from modeling prospects to determinedly pursuing acting, inspired in part by Hilary Duff (22:31).

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6. Hollywood: Early Fame and Comedy (24:31–27:19)

• The whirlwind years: Amy points out how much happened for Jen between ages 19 and 22—including Winter’s Bone and SNL.
• SNL experience:

  “I have to go back and do it again because I had walking pneumonia… I remember being too young to drink. I did, but at the Oscars.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence (25:08)

• Comedy: Jen reveals she’s written a comedy she’d like to direct and star in (26:31). Amy encourages her.
• Collaborating with female directors: Jen’s formative early experiences made working with women directors feel normal and achievable (27:19).

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7. Creative Process & On-Set Life (28:03–30:27)

• Set logistics: Jen enjoys the “women’s brain” side of organizing, scheduling, and making call sheets work (28:41).
• Immediate connection: She likes quickly finding her “people” on set and bonding with crews.
• Photo shoots: Both Amy and Jen joke about the awkwardness of being handed props and forced to be “the fun one”—hilarious moments about “clown shoes” and “barbecue sauce on your face” (29:27–30:13).

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8. Fun & Rapid-Fire Q&A with Jen (32:37–40:14)

• Reality TV roles:

  “I would go into that laundry and I’d f*** that laundry up. I’d put a podcast in, I’d steam, I’d fold, I’d have a color coded system.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence on what job she’d want on Below Deck (33:03)

• Nicknames:

  "Fluffin? Nitro? Boobs… my brothers called me Nitro 'cause I was really hyper." (34:24, 34:40)

• On having brothers:

  “They were great. Really protective… I think it made me tough.” (35:11)

• Doritos: Loves them, but now reads the ingredients (35:56).
• Impressions: Denies being good at them, but gamely participates in Amy's SNL-style impressions game (36:44).

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9. Set Stories: Coldest/ Hottest Days & Onscreen Friendships (37:17–40:11)

• Coldest day: Shooting Die My Love in Calgary in August—no warm coats, freezing temps, while pregnant and emotional (37:17, 38:03).
• Hottest day: First Hunger Games movie in North Carolina, "humid," running in jackets (39:00).
• Racing Emma Stone:

  “She’s got, like, really tiny bones, and I… I just have very thick bones… But running, I don’t know, because I don’t know if her hollow bones give her an advantage.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence (39:28)

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10. Jen’s Karaoke & High School Superlatives (40:00–42:17)

• Go-to karaoke: Any Man of Mine by Shania Twain—Amy and Jen hysterically sing together (40:02–41:30).
• Superlatives: Jen was “Most Talkative” two years in a row before she moved to New York (41:45).

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11. Pop Music, Culture & Recent Work (42:53–49:12)

• Current faves:
  • Both praise Lily Allen’s recent album, especially “Tennis” (43:32).
  • Discuss the dominance of female pop stars (43:41–43:54).
• On acting:

  “You really are doing the thing you’re meant to do.”
  — Amy Poehler (44:17)

  • Jen feels at home when working on set, less so on press tours (44:40).
• Process of making Die My Love: Jen loved years of in-depth conversation and creative freedom with director Lynne Ramsay (45:13–45:46). Costumes and clothes helped her anchor her character’s mental state (46:40).
• The power of clothes: Outfits carry emotional resonance and memory. “You gotta get ‘em right outta there.” (47:10)

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12. Partnership & Producing with Justine Shiraki (47:16–50:15)

• Excellent Cadaver: Amy spotlights Jen and Justine’s company and its output (48:31).
• Causeway praised as Jen’s favorite performance—a powerful, quiet film about returning veterans, directed by Lila Neugebauer (48:37–49:18).
• Funny interruption: Jen scratches her ear, leading to a riff about perimenopause and how it’d be a great drag name (49:12–49:45).
• What Jen is sick of talking about: “I’m sick of talking about the movie.” (50:18)
• What else does she want to talk about? Jen is content: “I think we’ve covered everything… things I didn’t even know I wanted to talk about.” (50:30)

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13. What Makes Jennifer Laugh & Favorite TV (50:42–52:14)

• Who makes Jen laugh: Amy, Tina, and the Globes hosting gig (51:10).
• Favorite shows:
  • Veep (“Julia Louis-Dreyfus is a hero of mine.”)
  • Modern Family
  • Re-watching old favorites for comfort (52:02)

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14. Dream Reality TV Show & “Alone” Obsession (52:22–54:52)

• If Jen could be on any reality show:

  “I guess the Kardashians. Because then I’d be, like, on a private plane going to Fiji.” (52:29)

• Wanted to go on Bear Grylls—but pregnancy stopped her (52:54).
• Obsession with “Alone”: Both love watching contestants build shelters and strategize calories, especially how men often struggle and women outlast (53:20–54:52).

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Notable Quotes

• “Big goes with big… baggy on the bottom and tight on the top, but you cannot do the other way around.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence (12:04)
• “You can do both. It’s rare. Usually you have, like, very, like, important, interesting actor who’s really good at acting but maybe not the funniest. Or you have a deeply funny person who you wouldn’t maybe believe in a scene. But you can do both.”
  — Amy Poehler (17:24)
• “I like to make friends immediately on set—figure out who my people are.”
  — Jennifer Lawrence (29:20)
• “What you do all the time that I think women do for each other is you tell the real, real behind something… you’re trying to be honest in real time and trying to connect.”
  — Amy Poehler (15:18)

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Timestamps for Key Segments

• [00:00–10:00] – Amy and Justine Shiraki intro and friendship with Jen
• [10:31–14:05] – Fashion, body image, and postpartum real talk with Jen
• [15:00–18:00] – Womanhood, authenticity, and support
• [19:00–20:44] – Generational shifts and gentle parenting
• [20:54–23:56] – Jennifer’s Hollywood origin story
• [24:31–27:19] – Early Hollywood, SNL, and ambitions in comedy
• [28:03–30:27] – Creative processes, photo shoot nightmares
• [32:37–34:40] – Rapid-fire questions (reality TV, nicknames, brothers)
• [37:17–39:44] – Set stories: coldest and hottest days, onscreen friendships
• [40:02–41:36] – Karaoke with Shania Twain
• [42:53–49:12] – Pop music, acting process, Die My Love, fashion’s power
• [50:42–52:14] – What makes Jen laugh: TV and comedy idols
• [52:22–54:52] – Dream reality TV participation and “Alone” fandom

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Final Thoughts

This episode is a quintessential “good hang”—a warm, witty, revealing deep-dive with Jennifer Lawrence, whose chemistry with Amy Poehler results in non-stop laughs. As they riff on everything from fashion rules, millennial destiny, to diarrhea on “Alone,” Jen’s candidness and humor shine. For fans of Jen, Amy, or simply great, funny, women-led conversation, this episode is boots—period.

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Boots.

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Transcript

[Amy Poehler]

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[Jennifer Lawrence]

Hey, girl.

[Amy Poehler]

Hi. I'm really happy to talk to you today because, I mean, I think the stuff that you guys have done together is really, really special. But also you just shared a long history together as people in the world and friends.

[Justine Shiraki]

Well, that's very generous of you to. Obviously we've been enormous fans for 100 years, so it's like such an honor.

[Amy Poehler]

To talk to you.

[Justine Shiraki]

And I'm like pinching myself and she is too, that she's coming on the podcast.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh my God, she's so good at podcasts. I mean, she's so good at talking.

[Justine Shiraki]

That's. That's her shit for sure.

[Amy Poehler]

Now, before we start talking about Jennifer, I do want to talk about you. Where did you grow up?

[Justine Shiraki]

I grew up in Wilmington, Delaware. I actually think we have Aubrey Plaza in common. I grew up with Aubrey and did community theater with her.

[Amy Poehler]

You childhood?

[Justine Shiraki]

Yeah. Yes, yes.

[Amy Poehler]

You guys went to the same school, like you were in the same town.

[Justine Shiraki]

Yeah, we went to the same elementary school and we both were in community theater at the Wilmington Drama League, an esteemed venue for like most of our, most of our childhood.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh my gosh. What was Baby Plaza?

[Justine Shiraki]

Like exactly the same as Adult Plaza? Yeah, like, hasn't changed a bit. The greatest.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

The greatest. That's.

[Amy Poehler]

What A Small World. And so the two of you are like, they're doing shows and, and, and performing and then where, where does that take you after you graduate?

[Justine Shiraki]

I didn't really know where I would fit in film and so I, you know, took a bunch of odd jobs and, and explored and during that period, I met Jen.

[Amy Poehler]

And what was your first impression of her when you met?

[Justine Shiraki]

My first impression of Jen was that she was a wild beast. And also that she had. Because Jen didn't have like a traditional education, she also swerved a lot of the like, social anxiety that I think a lot of people our age had been plagued with. So Jen had this like abandon and lack of self consciousness that was really unfamiliar to all of our friends. So we were sort of like wide eyed by her. And, and I think that that's something that she still possesses all these years later. It's something that she hasn't outgrown or, you know, she's never, yeah, she's, she has not become jaded by her totally surreal lifestyle.

[Amy Poehler]

So how do you go from two young women like sitting on a couch in a small LA apartment to running this big company and making these big movies? Like, how does that work?

[Justine Shiraki]

Oh man. I mean, it's a loaded question. I think that we met as young women and obviously developed our taste together. We were discovering film together. Everything from Wong Kar Wai to Sex and the City, you know, like it ran the gamut. And I also think that we became best friends. And so what, we, we care about similar things, we're moved by similar things, we have similar reactions to life and what's happening in the world. And that really is the basis for our decision making around what we take on as producers. So I think the obviously like extraordinary happenstance of Jen's young success and her being in this incredible position to get things made, and then Jen and I Continuing to, like, care for our relationship and continuing to grow together. And so I think the Odyssey has involved a ton of hard work and care and all the things you would imagine. And also us continuing to grow and being excited to elevate each other.

[Amy Poehler]

And also, I loved Causeway.

[Justine Shiraki]

Oh, thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

Such a beautiful movie. I want to talk to Jenna about it. It's just a great, great movie. Beautiful director. Lila.

[Justine Shiraki]

We love Lila.

[Amy Poehler]

Brian. So Brian. Tyree Henry's so good. Jen is so convincing as the character that she plays, like a physically and kind of spiritually wounded vet who's returning home. It's so good. Such a good movie.

[Justine Shiraki]

It's always so nice to see Jen in those roles where the kind of like, stripped back, quieter performances where it's so much of it is just happening in her eyes.

[Amy Poehler]

You know, I don't. I mean, I don't. I don't know how to act like that. Like, I mean, we were kind of talking about. We were talking about interviewing her and we were like. And, you know, it's hard not to be like, you're so good at acting. But she is so good at acting.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

She's.

[Justine Shiraki]

She's good.

[Amy Poehler]

That's pretty good. Are there times when you're watching her and you're like, damn, she's really good at acting?

[Justine Shiraki]

Every time. Every time. Like, I. I've sat on probably 11 sets with Jen, and every time my mind just is, like, blowing out of my face, I'm like, still, like, it does not get old. She just levels up every time.

[Amy Poehler]

You know her really well. You know, sometimes we ask people to talk well behind our guests back, and they've worked with them or they kind of know them. But you know her really, really well. You've known her for a really long time, and you're deep partners in work and you're loving friends in life. And. What do you think I should ask her today? What do you want to know about, hear about, or what do you think she'd want to talk about or a story she'd want to tell?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, man.

[Justine Shiraki]

I mean, with Jen, it's funny because she is so transparent in these spaces. Like, I don't think that she's somebody who. Where there are like a ton of subjects that are off limits.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, it's okay. This is really helpful because I've been prepping for the interview, and I don't want to put her in an uncomfortable position ever to ask her something she doesn't want to talk about. But she. She also feels really well aware of what she Feels comfortable talking about, I guess.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I think she is.

[Justine Shiraki]

And I think she'll also, like, tell you. Like, I think that she. I think, like, she'll pivot if she needs to.

[Amy Poehler]

You never have to answer a question if you don't want to answer it. And it is. And it's a magic trick to not answer it. And people often forget that. What question they asked. I mean, this isn't a good thing to tell a guest, probably. This is probably not a good thing to get. But anyway, do you have. It doesn't have to be a heavy question. It can be something small. Anything that you think we should ask her today.

[Justine Shiraki]

I mean, gosh, like, maybe because she's in a position of constantly being asked questions, and she is never in charge of what is being asked. Like, maybe it's asking her, like, what would you like to talk more about that you don't feel.

[Amy Poehler]

Whoa, that's a good friend.

[Justine Shiraki]

Opportunity to declare, you know, maybe. Maybe she has a big announcement or just something that she'd like to, like, reflect on.

[Amy Poehler]

You know what? That's a really good friend, because what you're basically saying is just check in with her and see if there's anything else she wants to talk about. Yeah, it's so true.

[Justine Shiraki]

She, like, is tired of talking about, you know, that, too. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

What are you. What do you want? It's basically like, you're at the tsa and it's like, what do you want to declare? And what perishables would you like to get rid of? Totally. Yeah. Well, no, but thank you so much, and I will give your best to Aubrey Plaza. I like picturing you guys being weird together in Wilmington.

[Justine Shiraki]

Yeah, that's.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That's.

[Justine Shiraki]

That's the right picture.

[Amy Poehler]

Justine, thank you so much for your time. Really appreciate it. Thank you.

[Justine Shiraki]

Thank you for having me. Of course, Jen.

[Amy Poehler]

All right, nice talking to you.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

All right.

[Justine Shiraki]

See you later.

[Amy Poehler]

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[Jennifer Lawrence]

Hi. My voice was so deep. Hi. Hi.

[Amy Poehler]

I'm very excited that you're here.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I'm so excited to Be here. I am a really, really huge fan.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh, come on.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I am. Say more. No. I'm obviously being sarcastic.

[Amy Poehler]

I was worried about what to wear today because your style is so dope.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

You have great style.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, my God. That's the only thing you need to say to me ever.

[Amy Poehler]

And what is your. I want to know, how do you pick clothes? What is your relationship to clothes?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. Thank you so much. Would love to talk about this. I'll just.

[Amy Poehler]

Because I'm fascinated. Because I'm struggling with.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I. Well, I have very opinionated friends. One in particular. Very opinionated friends. And we clear all the cloth. I do a lot of closet clean outs. I think living in New York helps with that.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don't have a lot of excess stuff that confuses me. I have things that I really like.

[Amy Poehler]

Do you think about. Do you plan your outfits for the. I mean, obviously, with press, it's different.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Loosely. I mean, I plan your outfits for the week. I do it, like, mentally. I, like, start kind of planning something. And I take my kid to school, and I know that I'm gonna get photograph. So I do kind of do like a mental.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, like, what do I. How do I want to present today? No, no.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Because the answer's always the same. Today I want to present as, like, effortless, but, you know, like, I don't need this girl. How'd she get so pretty? I don't even know what I put on. And you know what else is really important to remember?

[Amy Poehler]

Tell me.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You can write it down.

[Amy Poehler]

I'm ready.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Big goes with big.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, this is going.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

If it's gonna be. No, but if it's gonna be. If it's gonna be tight. If you're gonna have a baggy and a tight, you cannot ever have tight on the bottom, baggy on the top, or you'll look like a lamp. You can have baggy on the bottom and tight on the top, but you cannot do the other way around.

[Amy Poehler]

I'll tell you something about baggie on the bottom. I wore baggie on the bottom for you today. You did?

[Justine Shiraki]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

I'll show you later. I have baggy pants. I'm so sure. It's like.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It's tough.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, it's tough. It's tough to go baggy on the bottom.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But I have short legs, but a really long torso. Yeah. And big, thick, meaty arms.

[Amy Poehler]

So.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

It's a long torso. I see then that silhouette. You know, your silhouette, I guess. Yeah. And it's.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I mean, you got great. Knowing is not Loving.

[Amy Poehler]

Dude, you got great style. I mean, I. And I. And like, you like, I'm always just looking to see women are dressing like, not, not like just truly. Like, how do we.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Not just the style to take mental notes.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

When I see something and when I.

[Amy Poehler]

Actually feel comfortable, it feels like such a win.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

To wear something that you feel like you look good in and you also feel good in. It's like a hard thing.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. You feel like you're like representing yourself accurately. Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Or the, the worst thing is like when you're like, I think I nailed it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You see the picture years later. Not even years later. Oh my God.

[Amy Poehler]

You're like, I remember really good.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I had that recently. Cuz I was postpartum. But I was like. But I. But I had like, in my. With my second, I had like bad postpartum. So like, I wasn't eating, so I felt really skinny.

[Amy Poehler]

Right.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But I wasn't.

[Amy Poehler]

But inside you felt.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I was like, strapless. Let's do this. And my baby was like three weeks old.

[Amy Poehler]

I mean, you like a lot of people. Like, we're working through a lot of your pregnancies. And that's also a weird thing too, because you're like, your body is kind of. You're like bringing your body along for the ride.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, I was surprised more people haven't talked about how skinny I am and dye my love, because I'm pregnant and I've been waiting and nobody said it. Nobody's like, wow, you were pregnant. You looked so skinny. Like, I've never had an Ozempic rumor.

[Amy Poehler]

Not yet.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Not yet.

[Amy Poehler]

Not yet, honey. Not yet. After this. After this, we're gonna take this frame and we're gonna squeeze it down. No, but it is true.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It's like when you talk about how tall.

[Amy Poehler]

No, but I love what you've been talking about. We have so many things to talk about today. And I just want to start by saying this is what I've gleaned from meeting you briefly and feeling like I. And I know people who know you really well and just like, who? I don't want to talk about them. They asked me. I'm best friends with your mom. But you seem. And I know it's gonna sound cheesy, but you like women.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, yeah, I know, but I do. You do.

[Amy Poehler]

And it shows.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, what do you think? I like, love white men. Like, oh my God, if I could just be their champion. They're so misunderstood.

[Amy Poehler]

You're always like, wait, think about the other side.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Not all men I have it tattooed.

[Amy Poehler]

No, but, you know, you. And the reason why, to me, it's not what you say, it's not what one says is what they do. And what you do all the time that I think women do for each is you. Like, you tell the real, real behind something. Like you. You. You. You talk about, like, this was difficult, or I'm thinking about this, or like, you. Basically. I think when people stay mysterious, it's like a disservice to other women. It's just like, okay, you know, and you do this thing that I really appreciate that comes through, which is you're trying to be honest in real time and trying to connect. And I think that's. I think that's what women do for other women when they like women. That's the best way to say it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thanks. That's amazing.

[Amy Poehler]

And so, like, today, when I was thinking about our interview, I've been really hearing you talk about how you're trying to figure out the balance between who do I want to be and what parts of me do I want to give out to the rest of the world, and what parts do I want to keep for myself? Which feels, like, very, like, 30s.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Totally.

[Amy Poehler]

Where are you at right now with the balance of that? Because you are so famous and so real.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

And those two things are not always the case.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Right. I think that when I do press, I should do half than what normal people do because I see my quotes and they, like, they're insane. Like, Jennifer Lawrence calls Kourtney Kardashian annoying. It's just too, you know.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, you're right. But it carries. It carries.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But it's.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, first of all, honestly, it's funny because you're so funny.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

And the third piece of the puzzle I'll say is that you're very. You feel like a real person.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You're very erotic.

[Amy Poehler]

You've had your hand on my knee this entire interview, and it's a long stretch. You have a really long arm.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

These pants are baggy.

[Amy Poehler]

Really? Too baggy to get in there? No, you're famous and erotic and real and deeply funny. Like, genuinely.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, my God. You have no idea what that's like coming from you. You're my hero, dude.

[Amy Poehler]

But I don't say that to everybody. And, you know, God is fair. Like, usually you don't have all those things going at once. Usually you have, like, very, like, important, interesting actor who's, like, really good at acting. But maybe, like, you know, maybe not the funniest, or you have a deeply Funny person who you wouldn't maybe believe in a scene, but you can do both.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, thank you. You are deeply. I could do this all day.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, well, I'm glazing, as the kids like to say.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

What's. Is that what they say? You don't know glazing? Well, you've got teenagers.

[Amy Poehler]

What do you want to know about teens? I know everything. You have two boys. I have two boys.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I'm. I. You know, I missed my window. To really ask about 6, 7. I know that it's like, it's over. Know I missed the window, so I. I don't even care anymore.

[Amy Poehler]

Actually. Anything that we know is over.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Right. By the time it gets to, like, your mom.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah. Like, if the New York Times is writing about it, it's. It's been over.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, no one's saying it anymore. But to explain, really, like, boots.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, like, like instead of period boots, that. But that's from drag.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, I'm deceased. Boots.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, yeah, like. Like, well, like period. End of boots.

[Amy Poehler]

Right. I feel like period's still around. I feel like period.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But you're supposed to replace it with boots, I think. Or that's just a gay culture thing. I don't actually know.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, we could. I have a laptop. We could look it up. We could spend the entire.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

We could ask ChatGPT.

[Amy Poehler]

Hello, do we still say boots?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Young culture or just gay monoculture? Asking for a friend.

[Amy Poehler]

But what does it feel. But you're in your mid-30s now. You are. I bet you're starting to feel just. Just what you just expressed, which is like, oh, old.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

But it's weird, right? Because you're. You do not feel old.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And you're.

[Amy Poehler]

One does not really feel old in their 20s.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

My assistant is 23.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And so, like, I was doing, like, a closet clean out yesterday, and she was like, oh, my God, these are like real skinny jeans. Like, they, like.

[Amy Poehler]

It was like, jeans are not a joke.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

She was like, wow, they really do go in at the bottom. And I'm like. And we were talking about baby mama, and I'm like, so funny. So funny. She was like, that was probably like the. The first comedy I ever saw. And I was like, how old were you? Seven.

[Amy Poehler]

You're a millennial. Yeah, like mid millennial.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, I don't know when it begins or ends, but I was born in 90.

[Amy Poehler]

You know, there's this. I feel like you would like this, but we'll probably cut it. But there's this book that I'm obsessed with called the Fourth Turning. And it's all about how 80 years of history just keep repeating itself, and we're kind of getting at the end of the Chaos era, which makes sense, right? For the past, like, 20, whatever, years. But it's like each generation, throughout the years, have come forward to save, like, you know, different eras from peril. And the millennials are gonna be the heroes in the next. Good luck.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, that sounds so hard.

[Amy Poehler]

I'm so tired. But I believe in you, and I wish you the best of luck.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I was hoping that these kids would save us.

[Amy Poehler]

No, it's you guys. And I feel like that makes sense because we've really, you know, I'm Gen X. Everybody, like, really gave it to millennials and rolled their eyes at how well parented they were. How blah, blah, blah, we just were. And I think they're going to really show us they're going to save things. So chop, chop.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. All right.

[Amy Poehler]

Thanks so much.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. It is funny when you see, like, what gentle parenting is going to.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Do. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

But okay. Speaking of gentle parenting, this is a good segue. I want to get to you go from. I'm blown away by the story, and I. I'm sure you've told it before, but I just need to know the details. Which is Louisville. You're on a trip to New York with your mom.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And a guy comes up on the street and says, can I take your picture? Yeah, tell us the story.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, he took. Okay, I will tell you the story. And I just. I feel like I'm lying. Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

It's an amazing story.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. But it is the truth. But it's just one of those. I'm like a woman, so I feel like I have to, like, apologize, and then I'm lying. I was in New York.

[Amy Poehler]

I'm sorry.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

For spring break, and I was watching street dancing in Union Square. Whoa. Never seen that before. Not a lot of street dancing in Louisville. And a man named Daniel, who is a talent scout, came up to me and my mom and was like, can I take her picture? I'm like, a model scout. And we were just like, cool. Okay. You know, no sense of danger. Yeah. If he had, like, told us to meet him at a hotel room, we 100% would have.

[Amy Poehler]

Totally.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And then he took my picture on the street. Joe Jonas actually wore the picture on his T shirt at a concert one time, and it was the first time I had seen that picture since it happened. I was like, how did Joe Jonas get it?

[Amy Poehler]

That's so weird.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Weird. I've since Seen it.

[Amy Poehler]

Got it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don't really know what to do with it. I'm not gonna, like, print it out. And so then I went and started being interviewed by modeling agencies. And what was becoming really apparent was, like, if you're a model, you're a model. If you're a model, you're traveling. You're not acting. There's no commercials. There's no. So somewhere in those interviews, I decided that I' I would only sign with an agency that would also let me act, even though it hadn't been, like, an actual.

[Amy Poehler]

Did you know any actors growing up? Did you think you would do that as a job?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No, never.

[Amy Poehler]

Wild.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But then once it kind of, like, was brought up as a possibility, I mean, I did. I would always watch Hilary Duff, like, when I got home from school, and then I would do Hilary Duff in the mirror. So it kind of all came together.

[Amy Poehler]

But it is really random that someone came up and was like, hey, kid, throw this pitch. And you have the most amazing fastball. So good at acting.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

And the fact that someone was like, hey, do you want to go do this acting thing? I mean, I guess it was through modeling, but, like, they were like, hey, you. I mean, it's so wild. It's. It's a needle in a haystack kind of moment. Do you think you would have pursued it if that didn't happen?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don't think so. I don't think I would have been aware that that was possible. Although, like, being in the big city, I was like, oh, I want to live in a. I want to live here.

[Amy Poehler]

I want to live in a big city. Yeah. Like, you know when you look back at your life sometimes and you see, like, Christmas cards where people say, like. Like, you know, hope you make it to New York someday. And you think. Did you ever feel like you had that version of like, I want to get out of Louisville. I want to be. Go somewhere else?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I think, like, when it was happening, I think, like, I mean, I really wasn't there for that long. When I think about it, like, 13, 14. That's normally, like, before you even start getting those, like.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

So once I came back, it was just like, an impossible fever. It was just like, I got to get back there. I got to do what I got to, you know? And I had made money. I used to train horses, and I would babysit. So I had, like, $3,000. And so I was like, I'm getting out of here.

[Amy Poehler]

Let's get out of here. Yeah, you trained Horses. Wow. You proved my point that I feel like women and young girls that like horses usually have great hair.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Wow.

[Amy Poehler]

Always. I don't know. I have a bunch of theories, and one of them is that if you like horses, it makes your hair grow really thick.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, my God. Because you know what? A friend of mine, every time she's on mushrooms, thinks that I look like My Little Pony. You have.

[Amy Poehler]

Fantastic.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

This is for you, Rachel. This is for you, Rachel, right now.

[Amy Poehler]

Because your mind is going to be blown.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yep.

[Amy Poehler]

But when I was looking at your life and career and I was kind of blown away by how much stuff happened so fast and young in the years of like 19 to 22. Yeah, that would be a lot. A lot.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That's why I was so emotional over those skinny jeans. They were my 23 year old rag and bones.

[Amy Poehler]

Yes. And that was a tender time. Because you were. How. What year were you? 22,000.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

2012.

[Amy Poehler]

Because you did Winter's Bone. Beautiful movie. Incredible performance. When you were 19. Then you do SNL close to that time too. Like the following year, maybe.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Did I? Yeah. 20. Yeah. Because it was before the Oscars for Silver Linings and Winter's Bone. I remember being too young to drink. I did, but at the Oscars.

[Amy Poehler]

And what were your memories of doing SNL at that time?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Skewed, skewed, skewed.

[Amy Poehler]

I've read you weren't on the cast then. No, 2012. I had left in 20 2008. And then by 2012, I was doing Parks and Rec.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. I don't. I think I have to, I have to go back and do it again because I had walking ammonia. I was like, under a lot of pressure and doing a lot. And I was shooting one of the Hunger Games movies. I was shooting, I think the second one while doing all of this camping and I would have to like, fly, go to a party, shake hands, and then land and, you know, shoot. Like, poor me. But I was very tired. And so I think I was just. I remember I was also at that bad age. I don't know if other people were like this at this age, but we're like, you know, when you, you get asked like, can you do any impressions or anything? And I was like, no.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You know, like, I don't want to be like, and I can do this and I can do that. I just kind of made everything like everybody else's problem. I was like, I don't know how to do that. I can't do that.

[Amy Poehler]

Totally. I know. And also, I mean, it's hard to be young and on that show. It's just hard. But your relationship to comedy, what is it like now? Do you want to make more? Do more, direct more, write more?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I would love. I wrote a comedy.

[Amy Poehler]

You did.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And I would love to direct it. And I'll star in it.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh, my God, you should.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

No Hard Feelings. It was great. You were hilarious in it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you.

[Amy Poehler]

Such a good movie.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I did not write and direct that one. Although I guess I could tell people that. I did. I always could. People do good.

[Amy Poehler]

They don't pay attention.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No. After I wrote and directed no Hard Feelings, I. It really got me thinking. But thank you. I had a lot of fun doing it.

[Amy Poehler]

And you want to direct as well?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Right on.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Great.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I mean, everybody does. You know, I think that's true.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, I feel sometimes people are not into it, but I feel like. I mean, are you finding that, like, having worked now and done a lot of stuff now that you're realizing, like, oh, I want more control in what I. What I do and how I like to work.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But I also. I had. My first movie ever was a female director, and then I actually ended up working with more female directors than male directors. So as a teenager, it was like, really, like, not formidable. Formidable, yeah, forming formidable. It was a farming culture for me. So that made me, like, realize.

[Amy Poehler]

Gotta get this word. It's formidable, right?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No, it's like formative.

[Amy Poehler]

Formative.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Informative.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, it's a formative. What I mean is experience.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Formative. Is that what it is? Formative?

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, Here we go. Formative. Something that relates to formation or development, shaping and influencing something else.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That is precisely what I mean.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, we did it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. So it was formative that I realized that that was even, like, possible for me to do. So I had wanted to do it since I was a teenager. So then when I went into movies and like, 20s and now. Yeah. I always tell the director and then they include me, and a lot of them have been really nice and, like, included me in the process. And let me see, like, post and all that stuff.

[Amy Poehler]

What is. What's important for you when you work? Like, what. What's the thing you like to do? For example, like, do you feel like once I'm on set, I want to escape and just, like, dive in and I want some other people to handle the stuff? Do you like to. Do you like the logistics of the.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, I do like the logistics.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, you like a call sheet and you like knowing what's going to happen.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But I Think that's, like. That's a woman's brain. Yeah, you.

[Amy Poehler]

It's just.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It's really. My producing partner and I have been on sets together since we were 21, and we fuck up a call sheet. I mean, we. And when I have, like, a friend that's going to go do something, I'm like, send me your call sheet. I'll get you two days. We just know how to make it make sense. We. It's. It's divine. So I like the logistics. I also. I need to connect and have friends immediately. Like, I got to dive in and find, you know, the camera guys. Like, I got to find, like, who my, you know, people are gonna be.

[Amy Poehler]

That's so interesting. You gotta.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Cause you're like, we're gonna get.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Which is not a photo shoot, right? Photo shoot. I don't want you to talk to me. I just want. I just want.

[Amy Poehler]

Totally agree. I just want it to be over as fast as possible.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And it's just. All of. It's so embarrassing, you know, like, put your hand like this.

[Amy Poehler]

Or if you're considered a funny person. The worst part is they're like, we have a bunch of props. Props.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, no, that's not right. Clown shoes for you. You clown.

[Amy Poehler]

Put on the shoes, you clown. But it's so true. I mean, I've been in many shoes where, like, a chill goes down your spine. They're like, just. It's always a whisper. There's a bunch of fun props if you want to play with them at anything.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

If you want to play with them. Oh, no.

[Amy Poehler]

It's like a giant lollipop and a rubber chicken. Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, that's not gonna come naturally to me. Like, if you want me to pull on the rubber chicken, I will, but you have to direct me. Me to pull on it.

[Amy Poehler]

And the other thing is, like, we have a really fun idea. You have all this barbecue sauce on your face.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, it's always.

[Amy Poehler]

It's always like, we're going to humiliate you.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And you're gonna just. You're gonna smile your way through it. You're such a good time. Right? Okay.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I know. Mine aren't that bad.

[Amy Poehler]

I'm kind of shocked to hear that. I mean. Well, I'm not shocked. I mean, obviously, they're just like, we.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Were thinking, you wouldn't wear a bra for this. And I'm like, I've had two children. And they're like, but me. You want me to show you something? Come here. I'm gonna show you something.

[Amy Poehler]

All Your pictures. Are you just flashing?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

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[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, okay. Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

I want your hot takes.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. Oh, yeah, no problemo.

[Amy Poehler]

I know you like to give hot takes.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And I want. And these are important things.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. I gotta take it easy on the housewives, though. I always get. I get like.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, I'm gonna tell you something about. I don't know that much about housewives.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay. No, no, no, it's fine. I mean, that's good.

[Amy Poehler]

But you like below deck.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I do.

[Amy Poehler]

First question, if you were on below deck, what would you want your job to be? Which. Which of the jobs?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

A student? Well, no, no. I would go into that laundry and I'd that laundry up. I'd put a podcast in. I'd steam, I'd fold. I'd have a system. I'd have a color coded system.

[Amy Poehler]

I don't mean people never want to go down into the laundry and below deck. And it's like, why you don't have to talk to any of the people. You're there by yourself.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I'm alone. And again, I would put one near pod in. I'd listen to some murder and I just fucking fuck that shit up. It'd be so satisfying. Yeah. And also doing all that, like, doing turndown would be one of the most satisfying thing. Getting the lines in the vacuum perfectly.

[Amy Poehler]

Do you have like, Are you a Earth sign? What's your. What?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You've got like a. I'm a Leo.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh, so, okay, so you've got. But you have a lot of grounded. You like organizing. You, like, straighten things. Does your house neat.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, I mean, my. If you look at my bedside table and then you look at my husband's bedside table. Okay, Mine is an explosion. Pills everywhere. I mean, I look like I'm dying. Littered with pills. What is her malady? And my husband's like, just a bottle of water.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, okay, but you like.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

But I do. I get satisfied once. It's like, time to clean up.

[Amy Poehler]

You like a good. You get like a good system. Yeah, yeah, that makes sense to me. And then. Okay, another question is, do you have a nickname?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Fluffin? Nitro? Boobs. Boobs.

[Amy Poehler]

Lauren.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

The full government name. Nitro. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Where did Nitro come from?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

My brothers. Because I was really hyper and they called me Nitro.

[Amy Poehler]

I love that you are.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, and my friends call me Ken from the Barbie movie because I'm just Ken. I think it's their way of calling me stupid. And so whenever I ask something stupid, they're like, she's just Ken.

[Amy Poehler]

You have two older brothers.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And what was it like growing up like with older brothers? Do you feel like there's a thing that happens to like. What's the good part about having two older brothers? Is there one?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I mean, I mean, they were great. They were really protective, you know, not with themselves. They were like, you know, I mean.

[Amy Poehler]

Did it make you, like, tough?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I think it made me tough.

[Amy Poehler]

As the mother of sons, I will say. And you're gonna to eventually notice this too, because you had brothers. The way boys and young boys talk to each other won't be as shocking like you're. You're going to. It's used to it.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

In fact, I find myself doing.

[Amy Poehler]

I do too and that's kind of a love language. Like.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

When I've noticed the way that you interact with people that you work with, it also feels like you turn people into brothers. Like, feels like.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I think I do.

[Amy Poehler]

Josh Hutcherson was a brother. It feels like Robert Pattinson feels like a brother.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Like, yeah. Oh, you're so right. Right.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay. Doritos. Your opinion?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Love them.

[Amy Poehler]

Me too.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Cool. I mean, but now I'm, like, older and I, like, think about, like, what in it. I mean, not if I'm, like, on a plane. If I'm on a plane and I see him, I'm going to. This is going to get eight. But. Yeah, But I do think about it more.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay. Do you do any impressions?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No. Do I? No, I don't think so.

[Amy Poehler]

I feel like I've seen you do. I feel like I've seen you do Real Housewives impressions. But no, I have to text during the. All right. Do you want to do the game that we do? We do this game in snl, which is. It's like, you, like, do it or die. And it's basically, you don't have to do it. We can cut it. But it's really fun to play. And you can do it to me, too. Would you just give someone a name? And they have to do it. I have to do an impression in 10 seconds. It doesn't have to be good, but if you don't do it, you'll die.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, you ready? And Robert Janier. Me. You did it. You did die.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Me. I would love to see a recut version of him not saying, are you talking to me? But just going, me.

[Amy Poehler]

I mean, I. There's. I, I. What? What's the coldest day you've ever had on set? And the hottest day you've ever had on set.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Coldest was. I mean, I know, like, the real answer was, like, you know one of the Hunger Games movies where I was, like, on a frozen lake, but it was actually in Calgary doing Die My Love because it was August, so it was supposed to be warm. And so there wasn't, like, there weren't like, warming coats or anything. And, you know, I'm just in, like, a T shirt or whatever. And so that was the coldest. That, like, broke my heart, like, made me want to cry.

[Amy Poehler]

This proves my theory that Marty Short, you did cry because you were so cold. Yeah, this proves my theory that I said to Marty Short, like, it's never warm in Canada. Never. And it's always fucking freezing. And it's freezing in August, always. And Canadians pretend like, oh, we had a really nice day. And it's like, you did not have a nice day.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I know. You were very cold.

[Amy Poehler]

It's really cold when you're cold and you cry on set.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And it's why I didn't cry on set. I cried in my trailer to Justine. She was like, what's wrong? And I was like, I'm just feeling really cold. But I was pregnant. I just remembered. Yeah, yeah, of course I cried. Cried. I probably cried every day.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah. That movie seems like there was a lot of tears.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That was an interesting. It was fun to, like, play somebody. That's fun.

[Amy Poehler]

But you have to do some stuff, man. You have to go for it in some movies. And I'm like, this is hard. Screaming all day, crying all day.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

All day. Woo.

[Amy Poehler]

Hard. But you're so blessed.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I'm blessed.

[Amy Poehler]

Me, hot.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Blessed. Talking to blessed one over here.

[Amy Poehler]

Hottest day on set.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Hottest day on set.

[Amy Poehler]

Hottest time you remember working, and it was really hot.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No, I know what you mean. I answered the first one. I obviously put the context together.

[Amy Poehler]

I thought maybe you were thinking about something more erotic.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I think it was the first Hunger Games. Yeah, the first Hunger Games. We were shooting in North Carolina. It was humid. And we had those jackets on. Oh, yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And you had to run in those.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Jackets and then running in the jackets. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Speaking of running, I feel like my next question, like, what I love about you is how you don't feel like you're competitive with other actresses and you really wish for other people's success. But in a foot race, who would win between you and Emma Stone?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

She's got, like, really tiny bones, and I. I just have very thick bones. So what does that mean for running? That's hard to know. Because smaller, thinner bones, you might be.

[Amy Poehler]

Faster out of the gate, I think.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I think if I, like, got a clock in, I'd knock her out in, like, two seconds.

[Amy Poehler]

100%. No offense to Emma, if you're listening, but there's. You would definitely knock her out.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I mean, I could take her out if it was like a fight or a wrestle she'd done me. But running, I don't know, because I don't know if her hollow bones give her an advantage.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah. Karaoke. What's your. What.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

What's your go to any man of mine? Shania Twain H. This one here.

[Amy Poehler]

I don't know that one. This. This is where your Kentucky comes in. Oh, any man of mine.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Look how cute she is.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I still don't know this, but you like it, right?

[Amy Poehler]

You do the woo.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, of course. This is what a woman loves and a man of mine better be proud of man Even when I'm ugly he still better love me and I can.

[Amy Poehler]

Be loved Late for a date, that's.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Fine but he better be on time Any man of mine say it's. It's just right Just a little too tight and anything I better to say better be okay When I had a bad hair day and if I change.

[Amy Poehler]

My mind.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

A million times I want.

[Amy Poehler]

To hear and say yeah, yeah, yeah. Like it that way. Oh, my God, you're good. I know.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Really good. Very good.

[Amy Poehler]

I love karaoke, too.

[Justine Shiraki]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And I'm on key.

[Amy Poehler]

You were a key?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Did you ever. Did you ever. You're a good singer. No, that's not true. I just heard it. I just.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I know you did.

[Amy Poehler]

I know you heard it. Okay.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Anyway, moving on.

[Amy Poehler]

All right. All right. Have you ever been awarded a middle or high school superlative? Middle school or high school superlative?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Most talkative two years in a row. Third year I had left, I was in New York.

[Amy Poehler]

You got to get out of here.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, Talked my way right out of the building.

[Amy Poehler]

Most talkative. Yeah, most talkative. And for me, the three that were like, cousins were talkative. Like, class clown and mischievous. Like, they all were, like, together.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

We didn't have those. We had talkative. Best smile. Cause I remember not getting that one. You were going for that one and, like. No, I was going for Ms. Camera.

[Amy Poehler]

Ms. What?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Ms. Cameron. Camera is the name of the school. This is like the rural Dr.

[Amy Poehler]

The.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Miss Camera Camera School was the name. K A M M E R E R. Camera Middle School. That's where I went to school.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, we kind of went over this already. Horses. Yes or no?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yes.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay. Do you do that crazy thing where you insist on doing your own stunts?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

No.

[Amy Poehler]

And have you ever. I feel like, okay, great. Just keep that up.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

Best album or song of the year. What are you listening to that you love?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, I don't know any current music. Once they got rid of the radio, I really. I didn't know. I mean, how am I supposed to.

[Amy Poehler]

What do you mean?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Know what's coming out? I just have my phone. But what part of my phone. My phone has podcasts. I mean, playlists.

[Amy Poehler]

Do you not listen to. Do you not.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don't listen to, like.

[Amy Poehler]

You don't do listen.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

How do you listen to live music on your phone?

[Amy Poehler]

Honestly, I usually learn about new music from Instagram or TikTok that I Then.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Go and buy the Lily Allen. I don't know when this podcast is coming out in the future, but the Lily Allen album dropped a couple weeks ago and. Oh, I love it.

[Amy Poehler]

So good.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

So good.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I didn't know it was a Pussy Palace.

[Amy Poehler]

And. And Managamami Managa Mommy.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

So good.

[Amy Poehler]

So good.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. And tennis. Tennis might be my favorite song in the album.

[Amy Poehler]

She's so, so talented.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

She's so talented.

[Amy Poehler]

I feel like this. I. I was just saying to someone, like, I feel like the pop stars, like, they're just the female pops, like they're just dominating in every area.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I know. Charlie xcx.

[Amy Poehler]

I know.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

So cool.

[Amy Poehler]

I know. Do you know her? I feel like you guys would hang out.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don'. Her, I mean, would she hang out with me? I don't know. I don't know if she would just call her up. I would.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, okay, so let me talk about your movie, Die My Love, which looks amazing. And you, once again, like, you're. If I haven't made it clear, you're so good at acting.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you very much. That's really, really nice.

[Amy Poehler]

And you really are doing the thing you're meant to do.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

And do you feel that?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, yeah, yeah, definitely.

[Amy Poehler]

Do you feel like. Was there ever a time when you thought I. There. There's anything else I would want to do?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It just feels like every time I'm on a press store.

[Amy Poehler]

You'Re like, you know what? Yes.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It just doesn't feel like how does anybody like.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, but do you feel like when you get on set, do you feel. Or when you're work, when you're really in the work, you feel super relaxed?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, totally.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. I mean, it's like, it's hard and you're tired and, you know, you'd rather be like, home. Yeah, but. But you're into it. But it's like. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

So this process seemed really cool. Like, Lynn and you and Robert seemed like you guys. Lynne Ramsey, the director, it seemed like you three had some kind of way of working that seemed really creative and cool. Was that true?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, it was cool. Cause Lynn and I talked about it for, like, years before we, like, really had a script. So I felt like we had had so many conversations, like, about this person and about her circumstances, that by the time we got there, there was just like a lot of freedom that was like, kind of scary, you know, like. Like an improv type of situation where it's just like, go. Yeah, it's kind of like, under what terms Circumstances. But it was really, really fulfilling. It was, like, challenging in a nice way.

[Amy Poehler]

And you're playing somebody who's kind of like descending into madness. Madness. And do you. When you. When you're playing something like that, do you track. You know, are you always trying to figure out, like, where is she at in this scene? Like, how far has she gone?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Kind of. I thought that I was gonna have to do that a little bit more, but it ended up just being like, finding the truth of what she was saying, like, in the moment, which I think sometimes it didn't end up being as, I don't know, like, crazy as I thought. But the costumes helped with that because I think they, like, move from a different place and so they. At first she dresses really differently and sticks out. And then as she stays there, she starts to blend in with the community. And so that was a good way that I could mark kind of like where my headspace would be.

[Amy Poehler]

That's a very cool idea, right, that you're realizing I'm wearing this, this. This pair of pants. Which reminds me that I'm in this.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Space, but I've been here for like eight months, and it's kind of getting.

[Amy Poehler]

Back full circle to what we're talking about, about clothes. Like, I do feel like clothes. Like there are certain outfits, for example, that I wore during COVID that I cannot wear again because what? They just.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, because of COVID Oh, it's like when you wear like, work pants and then they get ruined because they're work pants.

[Amy Poehler]

Or you get broken up with in a shirt and you can never wear it again. Like clothes. Hold some memory.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, yeah. But you gotta just get em right outta there.

[Amy Poehler]

You gotta get him out of there.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay. We've mentioned your producing partner, Justine a few times.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

We. Have you.

[Amy Poehler]

Have you mentioned her twice?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, my God.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah. And she's like your best. Like a really longtime friend. Tell us about her.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

She's. Yeah, my best friend. We met right after I did Winter's Bone. So I was 19 and we fell in love with movies we, like, read together. We, like, discovered Walt Whitman together. So it was like. So we, like. I think our consciousness woke up together and we were like. And she was always like. She was my roommate when I started getting really famous. And she was really. I think I credit her a lot with, like, why I didn't speak. Start kind of getting too big for my britches or anything, because everything was really real with her. And she's just. I'm really lucky to have her. I feel Really? I love her a lot. I feel loved by her. I trust her completely. I trust her taste. She's also a really hard worker. She likes hard work. So, yeah, I'm really lucky. I wouldn't normally recommend working with friends, but in our case, worked out nicely.

[Amy Poehler]

You guys started a production company. Excellent Cadaver.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. You produced about six or seven years ago.

[Amy Poehler]

A bunch. You've been working together for a long time, and your company's produced a bunch of amazing films, including Causeway, which I think was one of my most favorite things I've ever seen you do. I love that movie. So good.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thanks.

[Amy Poehler]

For people who haven't seen it, check it out.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

It's you and Brian Tyree Henry.

[Amy Poehler]

Brian Tyree Henry. Incredible From Atlanta and many other things. Incredible actor. And you two play vets who are kind of physically and spiritually struggling and back home. And it's such a good. And Lila is an amazing director.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Lila Neugebauer. It was her first film, but she's a big theater director and she's great. Sorry, the inside of my ear is itching. Is this gross?

[Amy Poehler]

No, but, you know, itchy ears are a sign of perimenopause, so. Congrats. Congrats, babe.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

We'll cut that.

[Amy Poehler]

Oh, no, we'll double that. We're gonna make it really loud.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, we're gonna.

[Amy Poehler]

We're going to underline it with volume.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Here with perimenopause sufferer Jennifer Lawrence.

[Amy Poehler]

I always thought that would be a good drag. Name, by the way, is Perimenopause.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, it is. It really is.

[Amy Poehler]

But anyway, we talked to Justine.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You did?

[Amy Poehler]

Yes. Oh. Because we do this thing where we have people talk about our guests and, like, talk well behind their back and give me a question to ask them. And I talked to Justine today.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I should have known. I listened to this podcast. I don't know why I'm so, like, beside my. I'm surprised. What did she say?

[Amy Poehler]

She had a really. Which was basically like, what do you want to talk about? She was like, ask Jen what she wants to talk about and what she's sick of talking about.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh.

[Amy Poehler]

Which I thought was. I know. I thought that was a good friend question.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I'm sick of talking about the movie.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah, great.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

We won't.

[Amy Poehler]

We're gonna cut it out.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

And I want to talk about.

[Amy Poehler]

What have we not talked about that you wanna talk about?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Oh, I think we've covered everything. We've talked about things that I would have never known that I wanted to talk about, that I wanted to talk about. Yeah, So I don't. I can't answer it. Okay. Okay.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, what do you listen to? Watch. What do you. What makes you laugh? How do you get yourself up. Up the elevator?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, you make me laugh.

[Amy Poehler]

Thank you.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You're on my algorithm a lot. And you and Tina and you guys hosted a Golden Globes that I was at. And you were the funniest people I've ever seen in my life. You made me proud to be a woman.

[Amy Poehler]

Was that when we said that American Hustle was the title of the original.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Title was Explosion at the Wig Factory. Yeah, but what.

[Amy Poehler]

Okay, but what do you listen to? Read. Why watch. Who makes you laugh?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I watch Veep. Oh, yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

So we interviewed Julia recently.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

You did?

[Amy Poehler]

I called her the LeBron James of comedy. She's won so many championships with different teams, and she rejected that. She wouldn't accept that title.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That's so her. I mean, what if she was like, thank you. I know. Yeah, she's a. She's a hero of mine. I love Modern Family.

[Amy Poehler]

Are you, like, a true millennial and you watch things that you've watched before just falling asleep?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, of course. No, I'm Gen Z, and I don't know what they do. You sell robot clothes online?

[Amy Poehler]

Kiss your robot and sell your clothes.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Well, I mean, I feel like we covered so much good stuff.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

I feel great about this interview.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I do, too. I can't wait for it to come out. I'm gonna be the first to watch it.

[Amy Poehler]

Last question is, I know you do, like, a lot of reality tv. Tv. What show would you want to be on of all of them?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Well, I mean, want to be on them. I guess the Kardashians. Because then I'd be, like, on a private plane going to, like, Fiji.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, that's true.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Because the other ones, like, they're not. They're not, like, having a good.

[Amy Poehler]

Yeah. Like, there's no comfort. Yeah, you're right. You're right. Maybe. Maybe. Yeah. Because you just mentioned Amazing Race, and I feel sometimes there's, like, a little part of me that says I would do.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I tried to go on Bear Grylls.

[Amy Poehler]

You did.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

They would let you. No, what happened was I was like, I was determined to do it. I ended up getting pregnant, but I was still gonna do it. And then I texted my OB GYN and was like, hey, so I'm gonna be doing Bear Grylls on, like, the 17th. Is there anything I should tell them? And he was like, you're not doing that. I was like, oh. And Then I just. After.

[Amy Poehler]

Do you know the show alone? Have you. Are you.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I love alone. Oh, my God. Building the, the fortresses, building the cabins isn't building the houses. Isn't that the part that you want to do the most?

[Amy Poehler]

And if I may, the amount of energy that people build on their houses is fascinating because some people, you're like, you're going to get way too tired. This house is too nice.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah. They're burning a lot of calories.

[Amy Poehler]

Burning a lot of calories.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Other people, it's like you're sleeping under a tarp for six weeks.

[Justine Shiraki]

Like, you got to get your house together.

[Amy Poehler]

Like, what's wrong with you?

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I know.

[Amy Poehler]

The in between of that is fascinating to me. Yeah.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

The bugs, it was really satisfying. One year, a guy, white man, didn't bring a fire starter because he was just like, I can do it.

[Amy Poehler]

I saw that one.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

That was really. That was really satisfying. Then they. Schadenfreude, if you will.

[Amy Poehler]

I also love the men that come on really strong and immediately, like, twist an ankle.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah, I do love that.

[Amy Poehler]

The other thing that takes them down, down their stomachs, I'm surprised that they.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Don'T have them just go with Cipro. That, like, Cipro isn't just like, in there.

[Amy Poehler]

Maybe they do. Maybe.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I don't think they do, but I.

[Amy Poehler]

Mean, like, they do the, the di. Diarrhea immediately.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Immediately.

[Amy Poehler]

I need diarrhea immediately. But they, I mean, and. And men are just. They cannot handle. When they, when they don't feel good, they just. Everything falls the apart. So they're just like, I don't feel good. You know, like, see you later, dude. And the women are just weaving baskets and staying there for a hundred days.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Yeah.

[Amy Poehler]

Anyway, Jennifer Lawrence, thank you. Thank you for coming.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Thank you for having me.

[Amy Poehler]

Thank you for spending time here today.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

I think if any. I've overstayed my welcome.

[Amy Poehler]

If you want any food from the.

[Jennifer Lawrence]

Back, what if I just grabbed your favorite? Just grab the soup. Like, it was like, thank you. Bye.

[Amy Poehler]

Thank you so much. Jennifer Lawrence. That was so fun. And, and thanks for being here and, you know, for this polar plunge. I always like to dig a little deeper on something that we spoke of in the podcast. And I would just highly recommend that you watch Causeway. It's such a great film. Jennifer's so good in it. Brian Tyree Henry is so good in it. An incredible actor, directed by Lila Neugebauer. And it's just really, really good. It's just a. I don't know, I just loved it. I think you will too. Check it out. Thank you for listening. Please come back soon. Bye. You've been listening to Good hang. The executive producers for this show are Bill Simmons, Jenna Weiss Berman and me, Amy Poehler. The show is produced by the Ringer and Paper Kite for the Ringer, production by Jack Wilson, cat Spillane, Kaia McMullen and Alaia Zaneris. For Paper Kite, production by Sam Green, Joel Lovell and Jenna Weiss Berman. Original music by Amy Miles. This episode is brought to you by Allstate. Checking Allstate first could save you hundreds on car insurance. That's smart. Not checking that your car is in park before getting out. Let's just say you won't be making that mistake twice. Yeah, checking first is smart, so check Allstate first for a quote. That could save you hundreds. You're in good hands with Allstate. Potential savings vary, subject to terms, conditions and availability. Allstate North Insurance Company and affiliates, Northbrook, IL this episode is brought to you by Visible Got a resolution to save? Kick 2026 off right with Visible. It's a one line wireless plan with unlimited data and hotspot for $25 a month, taxes and fees included, all on Verizon's 5G network. It's the ultimate wireless hack to save money and still get great coverage and a reliable connection. Now for a limited time, new members can get the Visible plan for just $19 a month for the first ring in the new year with code SWITCH26. Share the savings with a deal that is too good to keep quiet. Switch now at visible. Com. Terms apply, limited time offer subject to change. See visible.com for plan features and network management details.