--- title: Jennifer Lawrence Taught Amandla Stenberg to Pee in Woods description: Amandla Stenberg revealed to Jimmy Fallon that her Hunger Games co-star Jennifer Lawrence taught her to pee in the woods. canonical: https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-10-12T14:26:26.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:55:27.370Z og:title: The Lesson Amandla Stenberg Got From Jennifer Lawrence og:description: Very necessary og:url: https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c8bef2d7342bc02/69893c81db2987f03e260ef4/jennifer-lawrence-taught-amandla-stenberg-how-to-pee-outside.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: The Lesson Amandla Stenberg Got From Jennifer Lawrence twitter:description: Very necessary twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c8bef2d7342bc02/69893c81db2987f03e260ef4/jennifer-lawrence-taught-amandla-stenberg-how-to-pee-outside.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Amandla Stenberg Reveals the Vital Wilderness Survival Skill Jennifer Lawrence Taught Her  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 12, 2018 2:26 PM UTC  THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0942 -- Pictured: Actress Amandla Sternberg during an interview on October 10, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images) THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON -- Episode 0942 -- Pictured: Actress Amandla Sternberg during an interview on October 10, 2018 -- (Photo by: Andrew Lipovsky/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 12, 2018 2:26 PM UTC Actress and [_TIME_ Next Generation Leader honoree](http://time.com/collection-post/5414051/amandla-stenberg-next-generation-leaders/) [Amandla Stenberg](http://time.com/4173294/amandla-stenberg-bisexual-teen-vogue/) learned a very practical life skill from her _Hunger Games_ co-star Jennifer Lawrence: how to pee in the woods. [_The_](http://time.com/5417038/the-hate-u-give-movie-review/)_Hate U Give_ actress revealed during an appearance on _The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon_, that Lawrence had taken her under her wing during the filming of the movie, which was ideal because Stenberg was 12 at the time, which included this important wilderness survival skill that she deemed “helpful in life.” Stenburg also told Fallon that although she and Lawrence don’t see each other regularly, they recently met up at a brunch event where Lawrence initially didn’t recognize Stenberg because of how much more mature she looked and as Stenberg tells it, her response was peak Jennifer Lawrence. “I went up to her and she looked at me, and she she didn’t recognize me for a second and then she was like, ‘Oh my god, you have boobs!’ I was like, ‘A few things have happened.'” Watch the full clip below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/"},"headline":"Amandla Stenberg Reveals the Vital Wilderness Survival Skill Jennifer Lawrence Taught Her","datePublished":"2018-10-12T14:26:26.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:55:27.370Z","description":"Very necessary","url":"https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Late Night Television"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c8bef2d7342bc02/69893c81db2987f03e260ef4/jennifer-lawrence-taught-amandla-stenberg-how-to-pee-outside.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c8bef2d7342bc02/69893c81db2987f03e260ef4/jennifer-lawrence-taught-amandla-stenberg-how-to-pee-outside.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","caption":"The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon - Season 6","creditText":"NBC—NBCU Photo Bank via 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":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5423122/amandla-stenberg-on-jimmy-fallon/","name":"Amandla Stenberg Reveals the Vital Wilderness Survival Skill Jennifer Lawrence Taught Her"}}]}] ```