Washington, Dec. 18 -- Hollywood actress Jennifer Lawrence shared details of her unexpected start in acting during a conversation with Leonardo DiCaprio on Variety's Actors on Actors series.

The 35-year-old revealed that one of her earliest gigs was a commercial for MTV's popular reality show My Super Sweet 16. "I'm being carried on a chaise lounge, and then they drop me," Lawrence recalled, describing her role as a fictional rich girl at an over-the-top birthday party. When DiCaprio asked if she had appeared on the show itself, she replied, "No, I didn't have the money. It was a promo for the show," as quoted by People.

Lawrence, who began acting at 14 in New York, later secured a lead role on the sitcom The Bill Engvall Show and went ...