I was hoping that we’d have some pictures of Jennifer Lawrence at last night’s NYC premiere of American Hustle, but no such luck. She was due back in Atlanta for ongoing Mockingjay filming, so she had to skip out on wearing what would have surely been another Dior confection. JLaw did attend the NYC photocall yesterday and wore a pretty cool cobalt blue Alexander McQueen dress, but we don’t have pics. Hence my use of new-ish American Hustle movie stills for this post. Look at that body … BAM!

Anyway, I enjoyed weeks of near-daily fresh Jennifer Lawrence photos, so I’m sad that we haven’t had any new ones for awhile. She’s pretty good at flying under the radar when she’s not tending to her official press duties. Oscar season should be good for JLaw fans, but at least those who do not adore her can take a brief respite from her “aw shucks” media routine. Jennifer is probably enjoying the media break too. It’s a good thing that some outlets are still releasing interviews from the Catching Fire blitz. Sit back and be charmed:

Behind the clever banter and disarming repartee, beyond the glamorous red-carpet Dior gowns, in a private dining room on the second floor of a downtown hotel, her loafer-clad feet kicked up behind her, sits the real Jennifer Lawrence.

And all this actress wants, right now, is a Corona. Or an Amstel Light. But the only brews available are of the artisanal variety, so Lawrence looks flummoxed. “I’m a Budweiser person. So I don’t really understand,” she says, as the waitress goes to great lengths to explain the intricate differences between the pale ales on offer.

Away from the awards-season hubbub, which again envelopes her for her role as a foxy yet foolish wife in American Hustle, Lawrence is a self-aware woman trying to have some version of a regular existence. “I’ve built my career. I need to build my human life. I need to get a house and connect to the people around me and not work for a little while,” she says.

But for now, she does her best to retain some sense of routine in an existence that’s mostly lived in hotels, fueled by room service. Her on-again boyfriend, Nicholas Hoult, helps keep her sane, away from prying eyes. “We’re really good at it,” she says of maintaining their under-the-radar romance.

She’s infatuated with her two young nephews, whom she FaceTimes every night. She decompresses by watching reality TV, in particular Keeping Up with the Kardashians. And she keeps her best-actress Oscar, won for last year’s Silver Linings Playbook, at her mom’s house to avoid any weirdness when friends come over, to try to nip in the bud the possibility of people standing at attention around her.

“I just get allergic to that kind of thing. People treating you differently when you don’t feel any differently is really alienating. You can see, the way they look at you. I can see if that was who I surrounded myself with, that’s why you change,” she says. “I find people who don’t change. That’s where I get my reality.”

And her ability to say exactly the right thing at the right time? It’s a gift. “She’s an amazing study of people. She really understands the teeniest differences in people. She can read people in a second,” says The Hunger Games: Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence. “She can figure you out in an instant. She does it with such ease, from the gut.”

[From USA Today]

So Jennifer loves cheap beer and hanging out with Nick Hoult at home. No wonder we rarely see her out and about unless she absolutely has to be photographed. I do feel for her because she continually spoke of being so tired during her last press tour, but I doubt JLaw will be taking any real time off anytime soon. The Mockingjay movies will run until mid 2015. I hope she keeps her health together until then because she those recent crazy stomach pains can’t be good news. I know people roll their eyes when they hear actresses complaining about their schedules, but I think Jennifer is under a lot of pressure to keep striking while her iron is hot.

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