12 Movie Actors Who Did Awful Things To Their Co-Stars
3. Jeffrey Wright Gifted Jennifer Lawrence With Crickets - The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Most of the entries on this list are of a particularly cruel or contemptuous nature, so it makes a change that the next entry - though a bit awful for the person involved, given their phobia - is more on the light-hearted side. A harmless prank, if you will.
The story goes that Jeffrey Wright, who played Beetee in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, gifted Jennifer Lawrence a blue Tiffany box after she won the Oscar for Best Actress in 2013. Remembering that Lawrence was immensely afraid of bugs - like, all bugs - the actor decided it would be hilarious if said box contained not jewelry but live crickets.
When he was asked, why he did such a thing instead of just sending her flowers or something, Wright said: "Just to keep her, you know, grounded. You know, what do you give the girl who has everything?"
A box of crickets, apparently.