Jennifer Lawrence got high to play weed-smoking 'Don't Look Up' character: 'Everybody was f****** with me'

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November 19, 2021 at 3:12 PM

Jennifer Lawrence went method while filming her highly anticipated new movie Don’t Look Up — at least when it came to her character’s fondness for weed. The Oscar-winning actress admitted she got high on the Boston set of the Adam McKay-directed social satire while playing a PhD candidate who calms her nerves with cannabis after discovering a planet-killing comet hurtling towards Earth.

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