Rachel Zegler also revealed to talk show host and singer Kelly Clarkson that her first meeting with Jennifer Lawrence was … actually a little bit wild. Referencing a viral video of the two actresses meeting at a Christian Dior show at Paris Fashion Week, Zegler said on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” that she was the only cast member who had met the previous “Hunger Games” star, and that Lawrence was characteristically cheeky about the entire interaction.
“I didn’t want to be weird. I was just kind of psyching myself up to talk to her. She was so unbelievably kind,” Zegler said, before continuing on to explain the footage shown on the show, where Zegler is clearly laughing. “In that clip, [Jennifer is] actually saying, ‘Let’s do another photo where I’m strangling you and saying you’ll never take my part!’ And that’s exactly what I wanted from her,” Zegler told Clarkson and her castmates Tom Blyth, Hunter Schafer, and Josh Andrés Rivera.
This is a funny comment on several levels, but perhaps the best is that Zegler and Lawrence’s characters have little in common, so Lawrence was never really in danger of having her role “stolen” by the younger starlet.
