Jennifer Lawrence Covers Vogue: 6 Things We Learned

Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 opens up about marriage, living next to Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, and more in the magazine's December issue

By Zach Johnson Nov 12, 2015 11:52 AMTags
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If you think you know everything about Jennifer Lawrence, think again.

The star of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 appears on the December 2015 cover of Vogue, where she speaks candidly about everything from her desire to get married to the big-time blowup she had with director David O. Russell on the set of Joy (out on Christmas Day).

Here are six new things we learned from Lawrence's cover story:

1. Not everyone is trying to date the actress. "No one ever asks me out," explains Lawrence, whose most famous exes include Coldplay's Chris Martin and her X-Men: Apocalypse co-star Nicholas Hoult. "I am lonely every Saturday night. Guys are so mean to me. I know where it's coming from—I know they're trying to establish dominance—but it hurts my feelings. I'm just a girl who wants you to be nice to me. I am straight as an arrow. I feel like I need to meet a guy, with all due respect, who has been living in Baghdad for five years who has no idea who I am."

2. Cameron Diaz, Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher are her neighbors. Last year, Lawrence bought a home in a gated community in Beverly Hills for $8 million (previously owned by Jessica Simpson) and is still settling in to her new abode. "Downtime is normally the bane of my existence," she says. "It makes me depressed, not relaxed. But I was actually enjoying myself this time." On most days, she hangs out and drinks wine. "I've got a bunch of friends who live really close, thank God. And I've made friends with Mila and Ashton, two doors down. They're awesome. I go over there uninvited. They're probably getting pretty sick of me."

3. She's renting the house Jennifer Garner stayed in post-divorce. Lawrence is filming the movie Passengers in Georgia with Chris Pratt, and she's living in the same home she rented in 2013 while filming the last two Hunger Games movies. Garner was its most recent tenant as she filmed the movie Miracles From Heaven in the wake of her split from Ben Affleck. "There's adorable little baby spoons in the drawer, and I saw a little Cheerio in between my mattress and my box spring," she says of Garner, whose three kids were there, too. "I want to email Jennifer Garner. I just have a couple of questions: Did you ever feel like you were being watched?"

4. Marriage is on her mind. Without revealing anyone's identity, Lawrence mentions someone she dated as "sexy," but adds, "I didn't like how he made me feel. When someone makes you insecure, it's strangely exhilarating because you keep trying to fight for that validation. It's what you want to have before you get married, so that you don't seek it out once you are." Speaking of marriage, Lawrence "can't wait" to settle down one day. "I feel like if I find that one person who I want to spend the rest of my life with, who I want to be the father of my children, that I would absolutely not f--k it up. But I'm also not banking on that."

5. Her ink has a practical meaning—even if it's scientifically inaccurate. Lawrence has an H2O tattoo on her hand, but as she's admitted before, the 2 should be below the H and O. "It's just H2O, to remind me to drink more water. I've never had a symbol or a quote that was so important to me that I wanted it tattooed on me," she says. "So I was like, 'I'm going to need to stay hydrated. Forever.' It's very practical."

6. Yes, she really came to blows with Russell on the set of Joy. "Because I'm not so sensitive, we can really talk, like, man-to-man," she tells Vogue of the director, whom she's worked with before on Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle. "Sometimes he accidentally refers to me as he or him. But he really respects and understands women, and by that I mean he doesn't treat a woman any differently than he'll treat a man. He would never tiptoe around a woman." After word leaked in February that the two engaged in a "screaming match" on set, Lawrence shared her side of the story via Facebook. Today, she says, "I was f--king mean on set. I wasn't mean to anybody but David. I would never be mean to somebody who couldn't be mean back. But when you really love somebody, you fight with them. There have been times where I've said, 'We should go to couples therapy.'"