Obviously not getting the memo that host Ellen DeGeneres was going to order in pizzas for the guests, Jennifer Lawrence brought her own snacks along to The Oscars. When asked how this year at the awards ceremony differed from last year, which saw her win the Best Supporting Actress award for her role in Silver Linings Playbook, she responded, ‘I’m just as hungry, and my feet still hurt.’
But she wasn't going to play any Hunger Games (sorry) at the ceremony, that can last up to five hours for the talent if you include red carpet time. So into her clutch bag she popped ‘a Slim Jim [a stick of beef jerky] and protein bar… and Pop Rocks. When I'm presenting, I'm going to pour them into my mouth,’ she joked to Us Weekly of the American sweets. They clearly went down well with her fellow award nominees. Because J-Law was later seen ‘passing out ginger chewy candies to Bradley Cooper and Suki Waterhouse’. Grade-A gossip, there.
Just in case you're getting annoyed with how publicly down-to-earth Jennifer Lawrence is, she's totally aware that the same schtick which made us all fall in love with her might be wearing thin. ‘Jennifer said she was so relieved she didn’t win because she didn’t want to go through what Anne Hathaway experienced,’ a friend told* RadarOnline.** **‘*She’s very aware that the backlash is already coming, anyway.’ Keen to dispel any notion that Jennifer Lawrence has it in for Anne, who really did used to be the darling of Hollywood, the friend continued, ‘And it wasn’t in a mean way, she was sort of joking because her and Anne are actually friends. But she just knew that if she won the Oscar again it’d be like a target on her back.’
Which we’re glad to hear. Because isn't it about time we stopped pitting actresses against each other? For all the supposed competition between Lupita Nyong'o and Jennifer, they seemed to be on friendly terms when they were pictured backstage at the Oscars jokingly fighting over the Best Supporting Actress award, and Amy Adams and Cate Blanchett were spotted getting tattoos together at a parlour in Hollywood just days after Cate triumphed for her role in Blue Jasmine. Sweet.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.