On Monday's Late Show, Stephen Colbert told Jennifer Lawrence that she has a reputation as being one of the most approachable celebrities, willing to not appear perfect on camera. He meant it as a compliment, and Lawrence mostly took it that way. But that kind of set the tone for a delightfully strange interview. Lawrence said she's a "puker," probably a signal from her body that she's working too much, and that her background in sports makes her appreciate plain-talking directors who tell her what they want. Colbert, a noted aficionado of The Hunger Games, couldn't let its star be on his show without dropping in a reference to the young-adult franchise.
Lawrence was talking about being from Kentucky, and how she might get her accent back when she's drinking or, according to boyfriends, yelling, but insisted that she mostly lost her Kentucky accent when she was a teenager. Colbert assured her that she doesn't have an accent. "You sound like you're from District 12," he said. "What's that?" she deadpanned, having just returned from an endless world tour to promote the final Hunger Games movie. "I haven't the slightest idea," Colbert replied. "I'm a 50-year-old man. How would I know? That would be kind of creepy." Maybe, but it makes for good political satire whenever a candidate drops out of the 2016 election. Watch the entire weird, disarming, almost awkward interview below. Peter Weber
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