Watch a clip from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, starring Jennifer Lawrence and Woody Harrelson.
NO ONE would expect Jennifer Lawrence, at the top of her game as Hollywood's brightest and most likeable star, to have any career concerns but the 23-year old Oscar-winner from Kentucky is worried she's becoming overexposed.
"I'm embarrassed to admit it, but I'm afraid I'm going to start becoming annoying to everyone," she says. "I know people can be very fickle, and I get it. I would probably annoy me, too. So, I've been trying to make a conscious effort to be a little more calm, mature and cool when I do interviews so nobody gets sick of me, but it seems that I can't do it."
Given her fears, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire and X-Men: Days of Future Past star wasn't enthused about the media blitz that erupted over her recent pixie-cut hairstyle.
She sighs. "I didn't read any of that stuff. Just hearing about people making a big deal about it is just so ridiculous. Seriously, I can't handle that much stupid in one day.
Jennifer Lawrence caused a sensation when she revealed her new pixie haircut but says she didn't mean to make a "national statement with it".
"I just had a haircut. It was at an awkward length so I cut it. I didn't mean to make a national statement with it," she says.
Lawrence - pictured in a scene from the latest Hunger Games instalment - admits she is more of a worrier than warrior. Source: Supplied
"I don't want to piss anyone off, but getting dressed up is the same for me as it is for any woman," she says. "There are parts that you love but then your feet start hurting and you want to put on some sweatpants. But I enjoy it as much as the next girl." She jokes: "Those Dior fittings can be so tiring."
Unlike her Twilight counterpart, Kristen Stewart, Lawrence is highly relatable and alarmingly normal. Even when she famously tripped over her Dior gown to accept this year's Oscar for Best Actress for Silver Linings, it only heightened the public's adoration.
Unsurprisingly, the self-confessed klutz had some wardrobe mishaps on the set of Catching Fire. "Well, we've all seen what it's like when I try to walk in a dress, let's put it that way. And given the film's action sequences, there was one time that I hit myself in the face so badly with my bow that I flew myself backwards," she recalls.
Catching Fire is the second instalment in the trilogy, based on the young adult series written by Suzanne Collins. Lawrence confesses that unlike the fearless revolutionary, Katniss Everdeen, she's more worrier than she is warrior.
Jennifer Lawrence famously tripped at the Oscars after receiving the Academy Award for best actress. Source: Getty Images
"Oh, I would never call myself a rebel because I have too much anxiety," Lawrence says. "I mean, I rebel against rude people. I can't stand that, like bad drivers, I don't like them But I worry too much about getting into trouble to be a revolutionary."
She adds: "I'm also scared of everything; elevators, snakes, ghosts, but also, shooting in Hawaii I was constantly scared of spiders and insects."
Lawrence makes fun of her cachet as a newly minted A-list movie star.
Jennifer Lawrence is Hollywood's second highest paid actress after Angelina Jolie. Source: AFP
"When I got back to the Catching Fire set the day after the Academy Awards there were some new rules. No one was allowed to make eye contact with me and they were to refer to me as Ms Lawrence," she jokes. "No, everybody kind of made fun of me, actually. If anything, it just made me more of a target."
The Hunger Games grossed about $700 million worldwide and the sequel is expected to eclipse its predecessor's box office success. (the third and fourth movies, Mockingjay Part 1 and Part 2 are scheduled for release November 2014 and 2015, respectively).
Forbes magazine ranks Lawrence as Hollywood's second highest paid actor, netting $27.6 million last year (following Angelina Jolie who took home $35 million).
Lawrence's payday for Catching Fire was a hefty $10.6 million, an impressive hike from the first film in the franchise for which she was paid $531,000 plus box office bonuses.
"My career has definitely benefited from the Academy Award and I am so grateful for it, but I am pleased to say that nothing in my personal life has changed at all," she says.
"I mean, I don't go to Beverly Hills and not expect to create a stampede. Certain things changed, but I wouldn't say my day-to-day life has changed."
Lawrence will be reunited with her Silver Linings Playbook co-star Bradley Cooper in her new film American Hustle. Source: AP
But being a role model to many young girls must make somewhat of an impact?
"Well, becoming a role model isn't something you choose, it's something you inherit and it happens without your consent.
"So yes, I have to be aware of it and be careful about the example I'm setting for young girls. I remember being that age and how much I would pay attention to what people in the spotlight would say, what they'd wear, how they'd carry themselves.
"I don't want to do anything to upset anyone."
She pauses.
"Or if I am doing something, I try to make sure no one's parent finds out about it," she laughs. "It's definitely a responsibility that I try to adhere by."
But it seems her mild off-screen behaviour in which she eschews the nightclub life in favour of sitting on her couch watching reality television won't lend itself to any headline grabbing shenanigans.
"No, I've never found going out to nightclubs or any of the Hollywood parties very enticing" she says.
Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson at the Hunger Games: Catching Fire premiere in Berlin. Source: AFP
"I'd rather not discuss that part of my life. I'm not a relationship-leader, just a straight-up actor," she says.
She will next star in American Hustle, in which she reteams with director David O. Russell (Silver Linings Playbook), and appears with Christian Bale, Bradley Cooper and Amy Adams.
"I was really excited to work with David again; I think he's some kind of actor whisperer. And it's set in the '70s, not really the height of fashion so it led to some funny moments."
But for now, Hunger Games is this season's most eagerly awaited movie and there is talk of a Hunger Games theme park in the works. Perhaps she'd like to be involved professionally?
"I can't really picture it, other than it would have some steep roller-coasters, which I love, but I'm not sure about being involved." She smiles.
"Perhaps I'd like to be involved in the royalties."
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire opens today.
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