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Jennifer Lawrence thought her BAFTA win was a prank.
The 23-year-old star was in the "middle of being painted blue" while filming re-shoots for her role as Mystique in the 'X-Men: Days of Future Past', in Montreal, Canada when she received the call explaining she'd won Best Supporting Actress at the awards evening which took place in London on February 16.
She told deadline.com: "Oh, it was a big surprise. I didn't remember that the BAFTAs were happening that day. I certainly did not think I was going to win one so I put it out of my mind.
"So there I was, in the middle of being painted blue, and someone said, 'You just won the BAFTA!' And I said, 'Oh, go f**k yourself!' And then it turned out they were serious."
Although Lawrence was gutted she missed out on the star-studded bash, she admitted it was a relief not to have to worry about making a speech.
She added: "It has been a bit of a blessing to be away, and not really aware of what has been going on. It actually has been really nice."
Meanwhile, the blonde beauty is up against '12 Years A Slave' star Lupita Nyong'o, Blue Jasmine's Sally Hawkins, August: Osage County's Julia Roberts and June Squibb in 'Nebraska', for Best Supporting Actress at the 86th Academy Awards on March 2.

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Dame Judi Dench refused to work with a director who "frightened" her on set.
The 79-year-old actress claims she is "totally trusting of directors" but fell out with one who made her feel uncomfortable and turned down the offer to work with him again.
Although the British icon didn't name the director, she told The Sunday Times magazine: "On one film I didn't hit it off at all with the director. He made me increasingly frightened and uncomfortable, and of course then the lines started to go. But surprisingly, he asked me to do another film for him at the end and I said, 'You have to be joking!' I nearly ran him over in my car not too long ago. By mistake."
But the 'Skyfall' star insists she rarely clashes with directors and will do whatever they ask of her during filming.
She said: "Only yesterday the director of something I'm going to do asked, 'How do you like to work?' I said, 'Not in all my years -- 59 years or whatever that I've been working -- have I ever been asked by a director how I like to work. It's entirely your prerogative. I will do what you want me to do. Tell me and I'll try and do it as best I can.'"
The star says it's "essential" to create a back story when playing a character and she imagined a "whole family" for 'M' in the Bond movies.
She said: "[I had] two grown-up girls at university, not that anybody knew about it, but I knew about it."

Mia Goth says her 'Nymphomaniac' sex scenes came "naturally".
The 19-year-old actress - who plays P opposite real-life boyfriend Shia LaBeouf and Charlotte Gainsbourg in Lars Von Trier's controversial new movie - immersed herself in the character so never worried about any of the raunchy scenes she had to shoot in her debut role.
She told ID magazine: "I knew I had to give myself to it, but I'm a rookie - I'd never done this before. I decided to be P. Any situation I was in, I'd imagine what would P do. Throughout the whole of 'Nymphomaniac', and even now, P never died. I became her.
"P had never known love, so she mistakes everything for sexual love. I was very deep into that character, so the sex scenes came naturally. It helped that Charlotte's a girl, so we both knew what we were doing."
Despite the raunchy subject matter, Mia insists she would have done "anything" the director asked of her.
She said: "I was like a little kid [on set]. But I just felt so hungry. I would have done anything Lars asked. I didn't have fear because I trusted him."

Scarlett Johansson has ditched her catsuit for 'Captain America: The Winter Soldier'.
The 29-year-old actress will reprise her role as the Black Widow from 'The Avengers' to join forces with the Captain, however she'll appear slightly different from her original character with a sleek new hairdo, brown leather jacket and a pair of knee high brown boots replacing her blonde curls and catsuit.
She confessed: "I don't spend a lot of time in my catsuit in this one."
The 'Lost in Translation' star also spoke about the connection between her character and the Captain - who is played by Chris Evans - and says they grow much closer together as they struggle to realise they have to trust each other if they want to survive.
She added to Total Film magazine: "Everything is not as it seems. It's not so black and white, it's not so cut and dry, it's not good versus evil. The stakes are much higher. It brings them closer together because they find themselves in a vulnerable situation and they're in it together."
Scarlett's co-star Chris agreed with her and admitted that trust is definitely an issue for the two characters as their lives revolve around secrecy.
He said: "I think Black Widow's whole arc is coming to terms with her history - that she's been a spy, and spies aren't necessarily trustworthy. That's kind of Cap's struggle as well. He works for an agency that deals in secrets, and trust is a big issue."

Billy Bob Thornton didn't want to be an actor.
The 'Monsters Ball' star has been acting for four decades now and has appeared alongside fellow actors including Bruce Willis and Ben Affleck in films such as 'Armageddon' but claims he never dreamed of becoming an actor when he was child, but rather inspired to be a musician or a sportsman.
He told Total Film magazine: "I didn't want to become an actor, I didn't know anything about it. I wanted to be in a rock'n'roll band, I wanted to pitch for the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team. I was a baseball player and a musician; that's all I ever wanted."
The 58-year-old actor who has been married five times - including a two-year marriage to his 'Pushing Tin' co-star Angelina Jolie - also admitted that he first got into acting so he could meet women.
He added: "I was only in the drama class because there were a lot of chicks in there!"
Thornton - who is originally from Arkansas in the southern United States - also spoke about an acting class he took when he was younger and said the teachers predicted he would be successful.
He said: "In 1980, we went to California, and I got in an acting class there and the acting teacher told me the same thing that my drama teacher had told me in the 12th grade. He said, "I really believe you're going to be standing on the stage with a statue in your hand one day.'"

Jared Leto may gain 50lbs for his next role.
The actor and singer lost 30lbs to play the party of transsexual prostitute Rayon in 'Dallas Buyer's Club', but says his next move could be in the complete opposite direction.
He told People magazine: "Maybe I'll play a bodybuilder and gian 50lbs of muscle."
The star and his brother Shannon - who is his bandmate in 30 Seconds to Mars - put their success down to determination and also thank their mother, Constance, for always encouraging them.
Shannon said of their youth: "We were really poor, but had paint, canvases and bongos instead of G.I. Joes (action figures)."
Jared added: "Creativity was a salvation. We had a hippie mom who encouraged us to pursue our dreams."
The 42-year-old actor is up for Best Supporting Actor for his role in 'Dallas Buyer's Club' at the Oscars on March 2, and says is walking on air to have the nomination.
He added: "I wish I could stay nominated forever. Then no-one has to lose and we all get to celebrate."

Rita Ora says "everyone" will watch the 'Fifty Shades of Grey' movie.
The 'R.I.P.' singer has her first big-screen speaking part as lead character Christian Grey's sister, Mia, in the hotly anticipated erotic thriller and insists people will watch in either "confidence" or "secret".
Talking to London's Capital FM Radio station, she said: "I know everybody's going to watch it, whether it's in secret or confidence, but everyone's going to watch it.
"It's going to be fun. I look really different and it was a good experience."
Rita - who is dating DJ Calvin Harris - "loves" E. L. James' erotic trilogy which the forthcoming film is based on and is delighted she was cast in the production.
The blonde beauty added: "The movie is amazing, it's such a great passionate movie. I had to be involved, I love the books."
Sam Taylor-Wood's 'Fifty Shades of Grey' tells the story of sadomasochistic billionaire Christian Grey's (Jamie Dornan) romance with Anastasia 'Ana' Steele (Dakota Johnson).

Robert Downey Jr. struggled with the technological demands needed for 'Gravity'.
The 48-year-old actor was initially cast in the award-winning space odyssey - which stars Sandra Bullock and George Clooney - but had to step down after he didn't have the space needed to "breathe" and "improvise".
Director Alfonso Cuaron told The Hollywood Reporter: "It became very clear that, as we started to nail the technology, or narrow the technology, that was going to be a big obstacle for his performance.
"I think Robert is fantastic if you give him the freedom to completely breathe and improvise and change stuff. [But] we tried one of these technologies and it was not compatible. And, after that, we [had a] week that we pretended as if nothing was happening and then we talked and said, 'This is not going to work. This is tough.'"
It was not until Warner Bros. gave the film the go-ahead that Cuaron began casting talks.
He added: "It was not until some elements came into place that we could responsibly go to the studio and say, 'We can set a start date.
"Then you can do offers, and that is when we went after Sandra [Bullock] and George [Clooney]."
'Gravity' has 10 nominations at the 86th Academy Awards nominees including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actress and the film was also awarded six BAFTA Awards, including Outstanding British Film and Best Director.