‘The Hunger Games’ star Jennifer Lawrence covers the September issue of Vogue US, lensed by Mario Testino and styled by Tonne Goodman. The gorgeous images were shot at Cornelia Guest’s stunning Templeton home in Old Westbury, Long Island. Set design is by Jack Flanagan with hair by Oribe and makeup by Val Garland.

The extensive interview with Lawrence is written by Jonathan Van Meter.Here is a sampling.

And therein lies the biggest surprise about Jennifer Lawrence: She has the soul of a comedian and can riff on just about anything that crosses her path. She did a 20-minute monologue about sponges: “I wake up earlier in the morning when I have new sponges. That counter doesn’t even see it coming.” She segued into her incomprension at people who don’t share her “faith in sponges” and then finally landed on her relationship with ex-boyfriend Nicholas Hoult, with whom she’s still very close (they’re shooting X-Men: Days of Future Past together). “He would never wring them out. We were in the kitchen once, and I picked up the sponge, and it was soapy and wet, and I was like, ‘See?’ These are the kinds of things that make me think we are never going to work.”