Back in March we learned that actress Jennifer Lawrence won the coveted lead role of Katniss Everdeen in the big screen adaptation of The Hunger Games and today, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly magazine, we get our first look at Jennifer in costume as Katniss. J. Law is featured on the cover and in the pages [...]
Back in March we learned that actress Jennifer Lawrence won the coveted lead role of Katniss Everdeen in the big screen adaptation of The Hunger Games and today, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly magazine, we get our first look at Jennifer in costume as Katniss. J. Law is featured on the cover and in the pages of this week’s issue of EW which shows the young actress all dolled up as the Hunger Games protagonist … complete with bow, quiver of arrows and her golden Mockingjay pin. Click below to get your first look at Katniss!
Fans of The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins’ terrifically urgent dystopian trilogy about children forced to fight to the death-have always been protective of 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen. So when Lionsgate and director Gary Ross announced that they had cast 20-year-old Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) in the lead role, the community was thrown into an inevitable tailspin. Was she too old, too blonde, too pale, too pretty to do the gritty warrior girl justice? In this week’s cover story, EW was granted an exclusive interview with a newly brunette Lawrence, and spent hours watching her train on a Los Angeles archery range and track, just days before she was due on the North Carolina set. In a free-wheeling interview, Lawrence describes her first encounter with Ross last winter, during the height of Oscar season. “He was asking me what the experience was like,” she recalls, “and I just kind of opened up and said, ‘I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.’ And we both started laughing because that’s exactly what it’s like for Katniss in the Capitol. She was a girl who’s all of a sudden being introduced to fame. I know what that feels like to have all this flurry around you and feel like ‘Oh, no, I don’t belong here.” When Lawrence was offered the role, she describes her response as a mixture of elation-and desperate anxiety. “I knew that as soon as I said yes, my life would change,” she says. “And I walked around an entire day thinking ‘It’s not too late, I could still go back and do indies, I haven’t said yes yet, it’s not too late.’” And yet, who can turn their back on Katniss? “I love this story,” she says, “and if I had said no, I would regret it every day.” After officially signing on, Suzanne Collins herself called to offer a starstruck Lawrence her most hearty congratulations. “I feel like when you said yes,” the author told her, “the world got lifted off my shoulders.”
OMG OMG OMG … I can’t … I’m … wow. Firstly, I never thought we’d get to see Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss so soon … but I suppose filming is scheduled to begin soon so the look of the characters has to be decided by now. I’m not sure what I was expecting … but even tho I’ve known that Jennifer would be playing Katniss, I can’t say that this version of the character matches up to what I envisioned in my head. That’s not to say that this Katniss is wrong … it’s just different than what I imagined. Oh man … I’m sure we’ll be seeing very soon what the other characters will look like in costume … Peeta, Gale … this is all becoming so real all of the sudden. Hunger Games fans, you MUST pick up this issue of EW magazine when it hits newsstands THIS WEEK! I cannot WAIT to read the Games feature in full.
So … I gotta know … what do y’all think of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen?
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