Josh Hutcherson talks Jennifer Lawrence with Letterman: ‘I’m so lost’

“The Hunger Games: Catching Fire� star Jennifer Lawrence has quite an outsize personality, which is always a plus when trying to make an impression on bored journalists during a lengthy media tour to promote a movie.

And she’s even captured the attention of late-night TV guys like David Letterman, who peppered her “Hunger Games� costar, Josh Hutcherson, with questions about what it was like to work with the actress.

“Is she fun to work with?� Letterman asked Hutcherson on Monday night.

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“She’s incredible,� Hutcherson said. “You’ve seen what she’s like. That’s what she’s like. That’s really it. There’s nothing else there.�

Too late, poor Hutcherson realized he’d put his foot in his mouth.

“I’m gonna pay for that comment next time I see her,� he said.

“She strikes me as a woman who has a free spirit,� Letterman said.

“You don’t say,� Hutcherson said.

Lawrence recently had a spirited appearance on Letterman in which she discussed in some graphic detail the symptoms of what could possibly be a lower intestinal problem and ended up snuggling under a large pink blanket with the host. She also appeared on “The Daily Show,� where she threatened to come out with a raw turkey on her head.

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Hutcherson, a Kentucky native like his “Hunger Games� costar, went on to explain how Lawrence will show up at press events and spout off “crazy, crazy things� before telling journalists that everything she said is off the record.

Do the journalists refrain from repeating what she says?

“Jennifer says the craziest things. They print the craziest things. I don’t know what’s real and what’s not anymore,� Hutcherson said.

“I’m so lost, Dave,� Hutcherson said. A cry for help from one more person caught up in the Jennifer Lawrence personality maelstrom.

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