Jennifer Lawrence on kissing, Katniss, and falling down stairs

Jennifer Lawrence reckons kissing her hunky Hunger Games co-stars was more of a chore than a delight.

The 23-year-old actress locks lips with both Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson in Hunger Games: Catching Fire but explained she wished she didn’t have to.

‘It was a lose, lose situation!’ she laughed when Metro asked which of her co-stars she preferred kissing in the film when her character Katniss Everdeen is caught in love triangle with Hemsworth’s Gale Hawthorne and Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark.

After stumbling up the stairs to collect an Oscar for Best Actress after her role in Silver Lining Playbook earlier this year, J-Law also explained she now has a fear of public humiliation.

‘I was just at my brother’s wedding and I had to walk down all these stairs and I thought “I can’t fall again! I can’t!”,’ she told Guilty Pleasures during a chat ahead of the world premiere of Catching Fire in London.

‘I don’t have any plans to avoid future falls. I can only use sheer will power. I will be much more focused when I’m walking.’

She also said she has found time to be a good healer healer in getting over the embarrassment she suffered back in February.

‘There really was no magical recipe for getting over the fact you’ve fallen flat on your face in front of the entire room and then forgetting to thank the director and Harvey Weinstein on stage. Not only did I blow it on the way up, I blew it on stage.’

‘I can’t say a certain remedy or thought made me feel better, it was just time that went by and eventually I could stop slapping myself every time I thought about it.’

While Jen might play the strong willed warrior Katniss in the film series, it is the theme of strength through family she feels she can truly associate with.

‘I wouldn’t be here if my parents hadn’t taken out a second mortgage to let me do this,’ she said, revealing her folks helped her fund her acting dreams.

‘My brothers told them to let me go and I lived without parents for a couple of years. They are there. Everyone else can leave you, but family can’t.’

[Originally published Metro, Guilty Pleasures, Tuesday 12 November 2013]