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Jennifer Lawrence ‘Was Hallucinating’ on ‘Hunger Games’ Set After Taking an Ambien by Mistake Before Filming: ‘Elizabeth Banks Got Really Annoyed With Me’

Dec 17, 2025 6:43am PT Jennifer Lawrence ‘Was Hallucinating’ on ‘Hunger Games’ Set After Taking an Ambien by Mistake Before Filming: ‘Elizabeth Banks Got Really Annoyed With Me’ By Zack Sharf Plus Icon Zack Sharf Digital News Director ZSharf Latest Jennifer Lawrence ‘Was Hallucinating’ on ‘Hunger Games’ Set After Taking an Ambien by Mistake Before Filming: ‘Elizabeth Banks Got Really Annoyed With Me’ 10 minutes ago Whoopi Goldberg Says ‘Damn You All’ to Republicans Staying Quiet After Trump Criticized Rob Reiner: ‘There’s No Way to Justify It’ 18 hours ago Nick Robinson Played a Version of Nick Reiner in ‘Being Charlie’ and Speaks Out After Rob Reiner’s Death: ‘An Incredible Artist’ 21 hours ago See All ©Lions Gate/Courtesy Everett Collection Jennifer Lawrence hilariously revealed to Leonardo DiCaprio during their conversation for Variety and CNN’s Actors on Actors that she hallucinated on the set of “The Hunger Games: Catching Fire” when she mistakenly took an Ambien before filming a scene opposite Philip Seymour Hoffman. “You and I are both obsessive about sleep when we’re working, like counting the hours,” Lawrence told her “Don’t Look Up” co-star. “When I did ‘Red Sparrow,’ I took an Adderall instead of a sleeping pill, and then I didn’t sleep all night.

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, Jennifer Lawrence, 2013. ph: Murray Close/©

THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE, Jennifer Lawrence, 2013. ph: Murray Close/©

Credit: Lionsgate/courtesy Everett Collection

Key Highlights

  • I was taking hot showers in a panic.
  • I am not somebody who can function without sleep.
  • And then I had to say the phrase ‘Senate Armed Services Committee’ in a Russian accent.
  • That sucked.” Popular on Variety Related Stories Ad-Research Firm MarketCast Hires Nielsen Alum Lana Busignani as CEO, Replacing Amy Fenton “I also once took an Ambien in the morning, thinking it was something else,” Lawrence continued.
  • “It was a dance scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second ‘Hunger Games’ movie.
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