Jennifer Lawrence takes risque step in the film 'Red Sparrow'

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - As she slipped into a corner booth in a restaurant at a Beverly Hills hotel on a recent afternoon, Jennifer Lawrence was buzzing.

An obsessive fan of reality TV, she had just spotted someone across the room who had appeared on a certain reality series she watches, and she needed a moment to settle down and focus. "Sorry, I'm still excited about my celebrity sighting," she said. "I'm all jacked up."

It goes without saying, of course, that Lawrence is not just a celebrity herself but one of the biggest ones currently inhabiting the planet. To date, her movies, including blockbusters in the "Hunger Games" and "X-Men" franchises and smaller films like "Winter's Bone" and "American Hustle," have collectively grossed more than $5.6 billion worldwide. At age 27 - two years younger than Meryl Streep was when she received her first-ever Academy Award nomination - she has already scored four Oscar nods, winning the lead actress prize for 2012's "Silver Linings Playbook."

To her legions of admirers, though, an essential part of Lawrence's appeal is that, for all