At the moment, Jennifer Lawrence – Academy Award nominee, comic-book-movie star and the current unofficially anointed It Girl – can barely catch her breath long enough to have a conversation.
During a recent telephone call with Lawrence – who received her first Oscar nomination this year for her portrayal of a steely teen in “Winter’s Bone” and can be seen in her first summer blockbuster, “X-Men: First Class” – the actress is all over the place.
The 20-year-old begins chatting in a dressing room backstage at “Late Night With Jimmy Fallon,” then heads into a parking garage where her cell phone briefly loses reception, then resumes a few minutes later as she rides to her next destination.
Movie stardom apparently requires multitasking. And this is only the beginning.
After her turn as young shape-shifter Mystique (non-mutant name: Raven Darkholme) in “X-Men: First Class,” Lawrence will star in her buzziest role to date: as teen warrior Katniss Everdeen in the adaptation of the popular post-apocalyptic young-adult book series “The Hunger Games,” a role that has made her the subject of intense Internet chatter and landed her on the cover of Entertainment Weekly. (The film began shooting last week in Wilmington, N.C.)