Jennifer Lawrence Strips Down For GQ, 'X-Men' Director Sings Her Praises (PHOTOS)

World, meet Jennifer Lawrence's skin. You'll be seeing a lot of it this summer.

Lawrence, the Oscar-nominated "Winter's Bone" star, features in the new issue of GQ, showing plenty of flesh in 1960's style bathing suits. Lawrence stars in the upcoming, 60's-set "X-Men: First Class" origins film, but when you you see her skin in that film, it'll be blue.

She stars as Mystique, a shape shifting, color changing mutant, and it was a role that director Matthew Vaughn said she was perfect for.

"There are a lot of young American actors right now who haven't got any technique," Vaughn said. "And to be blunt, a lot of these kids assume that just by having a good set of teeth and tits, smiling for the camera's gonna be enough. I needed someone who could act."

Lawrence had to undergo hours of body painting for each day on set, and spoke of her frustration with the process with The Hollywood Reporter in January.

"Nothing's sacred anymore," Lawrence told THR. "Those girls and I got so close. They were painting me naked every day for months. It was kind of like going to a really bizarre sleepover... It's what you guys imagine we do: One naked girl and seven pairs of hands all over her."

After "X-Men," Lawrence takes on another epic battle role; she nabbed the part of Katniss, the lead in the big screen version of the post-apocalyptic young adult novel, "The Hunger Games."

Lawrence is rumored to be dating her "X-Men" co-star, Nicholas Hoult.

For more photos, click over to GQ.

PHOTOS (credit: Alasdair McLellan/GQ):

Comments

[griggsville]

09:19 AM on 05/28/2011

The one thing that always bugged me about this comic book series is that it purports to be about prejudice and racism, but Storm, the ONLY regular black character, appeared to be a Caucasian woman colored brown with blond hair and blue eyes, and female characters in general are the same sexist, male-fantasy sex objects that help to create stereotypes about women in the first place. The word "hypocrisy" comes to mind.

[RageVsMachine]

04:00 PM on 05/03/2011

this is gonna be one b aada sss xmen movie. they should change the title to C-Men. Get it? C-men??

[EricBishop]

07:01 PM on 04/17/2011

FAIL

[Curtis Marc Williams]

04:40 PM on 04/17/2011

I, myself, thinks she's an excellent choice for the role of Mystique. I only hope that this director stays true enough to the comics and doesn't have her running around totally naked. Mystique was sexy because of the blue skin, the red hair and the Virginal white outfit she always wore. It kind of made her look a bit like a blue angel which was in total contrast to who she really was.

[Said One]

06:48 AM on 04/17/2011

Shes stunning - very sultry has that it factor

[Nebris]

10:50 PM on 04/16/2011

We like a gal with some meat on her bones. =)

[SteveSFM]

02:06 AM on 04/17/2011

I understand that right before she stepped on the Oscar red carpet and wowed everyone, she polished off a cheesesteak.

That's kind of awesome.

[Gronkie]

08:39 PM on 04/16/2011

Whew!

[slaxx]

02:57 PM on 04/16/2011

Nice, healthy body.

[contradiction]

02:09 PM on 04/15/2011

Wow! An actress with an actual healthy looking body!

[mojo filter]

02:43 PM on 04/15/2011

Yeah. She looks like she takes care of herself. She looks great and isn't starving herself.

[auramac]

05:34 PM on 04/15/2011

Healthy is the word!

[deluxebrand]

02:08 PM on 04/15/2011

nice

[Steenie1221]

01:27 PM on 04/15/2011

I think she's beautiful and HOORAY for her not being only skin & bones!!! I sincerely hope she stays exactly how she is and doesn't succumb to the Hollywood pressure to starve herself.

[me again]

11:46 AM on 04/15/2011

Big, fat hairy deal.

[thetruth3]

01:16 PM on 04/15/2011

I always find it amusing when someone takes the time to read a piece, then goes through the effort of making some above it all comment. It's so big, fat, and hairy.

[me again]

08:10 AM on 04/17/2011

No, I looked at the pictures and commented. No words can soothe my disappontment.

[me again]

08:11 AM on 04/17/2011

That too....but not big, nor fat.

[ron ray]

11:31 AM on 04/15/2011

acting? in an X-men film? I'm sorry, but that's the most boring superhero series ever. acting not required. more, I can stand in front of a blue screen in a silly costume and only look slightly silly.

the comics, they were landmark. so its a real shame.

[sabelmouse]

08:33 AM on 04/15/2011

and this is why she's been [ miss ] cast for the hunger games. to draw in the male audience. fans of the books better forget about that film already.

[-swift]

09:33 AM on 04/15/2011

My son has the books. I believe the characters were supposed to be kids, right?

[sabelmouse]

10:38 AM on 04/15/2011

so does my daughter. i'm told that katniss is younger, smaller, darker and skinnier. she does not look like a playboy wannabe.

[SteveSFM]

02:03 AM on 04/17/2011

Maybe she was cast because she's an exceptional young actress.

That might be just a bit more important than slavish fealty to how the character looks in the book.

[WakingLife]

05:19 AM on 04/17/2011

Or it could be that people are upset about the political commentary being lost with JL's casting (ie, child soldiers, Katniss being a POC, etc.). That was a large part of the books for me. And as a result, I've lost interest in the movie.

And I saw Winter's Bone. I can honestly say I think JL is overrated. And if it's just about acting, John Hawkes should play the lead in The Hunger Games.

[European1919]

08:31 AM on 04/15/2011

What a face, what a look ... YUM!

[lotus321]

11:19 AM on 04/15/2011

Gonna go with your evaluation I guess. Can't say she does anything for me personally

[European1919]

05:49 PM on 04/15/2011

If she doesn't do anything for you personally, why do you agree with my estimation that her face and that look are yummie?