--- title: Jennifer Lawrence On The Time She Tried To Dance With J. Lo description: Jennifer Lawrence once tried to dance with Jennifer Lopez. canonical: https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/ author: TIME Video article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-05-16T15:09:22.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-21T07:53:09.490Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: Jennifer Lawrence On The Time She Tried To Dance With J. Lo og:description: Jennifer Lawrence once tried to dance with Jennifer Lopez. og:url: https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70055d99b4452bfa/69868fe7169ab038ee2795a4/jennifer-lawrence-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: Jennifer Lawrence on The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon on May 15, 2014. og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jennifer Lawrence On The Time She Tried To Dance With J. Lo twitter:description: Jennifer Lawrence once tried to dance with Jennifer Lopez. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70055d99b4452bfa/69868fe7169ab038ee2795a4/jennifer-lawrence-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jennifer Lawrence: I Tried To Dance With J. Lo And It Went Horribly Wrong by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 16, 2014 3:09 PM UTC  Jennifer Lawrence on The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon on May 15, 2014. Jennifer Lawrence on The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon on May 15, 2014.Nathaniel Chadwick—NBC/Getty Images by [TIME Video](https://time.com/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video May 16, 2014 3:09 PM UTC Jennifer Lawrence went on the _The Tonight Show With Jimmy Fallon_ Thursday and talked about the time she and host Jimmy Fallon tried to dance with Jennifer Lopez. “We both saw J.Lo, and this was like 10 Jello shots in. And I’ve never done jello shots—I didn’t go to college,” Lawrence said about dancing at an event with Fallon. “So we were dancing and we J.Lo and were like, ‘Well, we gotta get J. Lo to dance!’ So I was like, ‘We’ll do a spin, and then we’ll go, ‘Dance with us!'” The TV host and the 23-year-old actress planned a secret choreography to surprise Lopez together. But while Lawrence did the routine, but Fallon stayed behind. “I do it, he’s gone and it’s just me looking at J.Lo going, ‘Dance with me!'” Lawrence said. “She was like, ‘I think I’m just gonna observe.’ You made me look like a freak in front of J.Lo! Do you know what that feels like?” ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/"},"headline":"Jennifer Lawrence: I Tried To Dance With J. Lo And It Went Horribly Wrong","datePublished":"2014-05-16T15:09:22.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-21T07:53:09.490Z","description":"The adorably gaffe-prone actress has done it again.","url":"https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/","keywords":["Television","Jennifer Lawrence","jimmy fallon","Jennifer Lopez"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70055d99b4452bfa/69868fe7169ab038ee2795a4/jennifer-lawrence-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt70055d99b4452bfa/69868fe7169ab038ee2795a4/jennifer-lawrence-jimmy-fallon.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Jennifer Lawrence on The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon on May 15, 2014.","caption":"Jennifer Lawrence on The Tonight Show with Jimmy fallon on May 15, 2014.","creditText":"Nathaniel Chadwick—NBC/Getty Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/102703/jennifer-lawrence-lopez/","name":"Jennifer Lawrence: I Tried To Dance With J. Lo And It Went Horribly Wrong"}}]}] ```