Liam Hemsworth Hated Kissing Jennifer Lawrence

Is Jennifer Lawrence a good kisser? Well, She certainly thinks so.

Jennifer Lawrence with her Hunger Games love interest, Liam Hemsworth. Photo: Getty

Sure, she ate a sandwich and then didn't brush her teeth before filming a big kiss with costar Liam Hemsworth, but, "I gave him fair warning," Lawrence revealed at a NYC press conference this weekend.

According to Hemsworth, however, the kiss was less than stellar: "Any time I had to kiss Jennifer was pretty uncomfortable. When you look at it on the outside it looks like a great picture. She's one of my best friends. I love her. But if we had a kissing scene, she would make a point of eating garlic or tuna fish or something that was disgusting."

Jennifer Lawrence with her Hunger Games costars. Photo: Getty

All kidding aside, the Oscar winning actress Lawrence does credit Hemsworth with teaching her to have more of a backbone: "I am a wimp about standing up for myself," the 24-year-old actress told WHO at the press conference in NYC.

Hemsworth, she says, "taught me how to stand up for myself." Before Hemsworth, "I would always be like, 'Please like me! Please like me!'"

"It's my biggest weakness – with negotiating, or even with people. Liam is always fair, he is always kind, he is always strong. He's teaching me to toughen up a little bit and it's important. I need that."

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While filming the Hunger Games movies over the years, she said she grew particularly close to both Josh Hutcherson, 22, and Hemsworth, 24.

"Liam is the most wonderful, lovable, just family-oriented sweet, hilarious [guy]," she said. "I guess the biggest surprise is that I would never expect to ever have a man this good-looking ever be my best friend. I never knew that those things could happen."

When he returned the compliment, saying how "she has never changed" and is "a great actress because she adapts to situations," she laughed and said, "This is the best press conference ever!"

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