Jennifer Lawrence’s Teen Vogue Interview: “I’m a massive fan too!”
She just added another dash of cinnamon to her coffee (from the emergency bottle in her bag) and is eating rye toast off my plate and extolling the virtues of Spanx when she looks at her phone, sees the time, and jumps up.
Sorry, I want to stay and talk more, but I have to go do this Hunger Games thing,” the 20-year-old says. Hunger Games thing? Surely, Jennifer realizes that as the entertainment director at a major teen magazine, I can’t even pretend to be blasé about this. Every young actress in town—fan-favorite Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Emily Browning . . . even complete unknowns—has been auditioning for the part of Katniss, the brash lead in the film based on the überpopular series of novels. I call her out on it; she smirks, shrugs, and sends the rest of this juicy conversation off the record before she races out the door.
The Hunger Games is Suzanne Collins’s searing trilogy of young-adult books that has sold millions of copies in the United States alone. It’s also the heir to the Twilight throne and the hottest property in Hollywood right now. A few weeks later it’s announced that Jennifer has landed the lead. And though many die-hard Hunger Games readers (Gamers? Hunger-ites? There has to be something à la Twi-hards) balked at her casting—she’s too old, too sexy, too pretty, too blonde—the backlash against the backlash has earned her fervent praise. “The cool thing about Katniss is that every fan has such a personal relationship with her, and they understand and know her in a singular way,” Jennifer says. “I’m a massive fan too, so I get it.”
@sky Yeah, I know what you’re talking about, but it might make the movie kind of boring or confusing with all the flashbacks. Know what I mean?
@Sky- I agree! The movie should have times where they go back to district 12 and see Gales reactions. He supposed to stay back and take care of his and Katniss’s family. I also envisioned them showing the Capitol audiences enthusiastic reactions which it sounds like they’re going to do.
@Ugh: If Kimmy isn’t reporting anything, it’s because there is nothing to report. This sight is probably the best at reporting any kind of news.
@Abernathy. I know, but if the rumors are true I doubt I will go to see this film. I understand things need to be changed (I’ve seen enough book to film adaptations in my 25 years on the planet to know that it is guaranteed to happen) but there are slight modifications to the book storyline and there is completely changing the storyline therefore pissing off lots of people =)
@RWC. Precisely =)
I just want the boy and the bread
@RWC. Sad, and very true.
How is it even possible to take out the boy with the bread? The whole plot surrounds it!
I just went to phillyburbs.com and looked up the article by typing in “hunger games”. I would like to know where they’re getting those hints of plot deviation from. Has anybody heard it from somewhere else?
guys don’t worry we’ll be fine. I’m a major fan too. we’ll always be the greatest fans of this book even if those Lionsgate people don’t make a good HG movie. Right? or are you guys just die hard fans because there making a a movie based on our favorite books. You know, sometimes i’m convinced some people haven’t understood the true meaning of THG. It’s not about what all the actors or characters look like!
the hungries for our fan-nick names just sound wrong -
no offense I’m with the “tributes.”
I like Tributes too!
Okay….this is just depressing…From now on, if one of my favorite books becomes a movie, I am just going to assume that it is going to suck.
i can already tell by these spoilers that this movie is going to be just like Twilight…stripped down, compacted, rushed, and stupid. -sighs helplessly-
lalala
Hungerjays would sound too weird? And we can’t be sure what will be add or taken out of the script until the movie premier. If they mess up with the boy with the bread I’ll hate Suzanne and Gary forever. I wasn’t even interested in seing the movie after it became official Josh would play Peeta but I think that after the premier I can check the fans reactions reading all the blogs I can. Then I could shut myself to everything related to the movie and concentrate only in the book.
It’s so annoying how all of these teen magazines are jumping on the bandwagon. -.- I hope that this movie is good though.
Annndd I vote Tributes/Panemaniams.
I think that Hunger Game fans and Twilight fans are equally brutal. As a member of both, I have come across some pretty nasty things on both sides.
@ Alexa:
What do you expect? The Hunger Games is a huge thing right now. It’s funny how people want a really good quality movie, but without all the bandwagon media. It’s Hollywood, guys; what do you expect? The media isn’t just going to sit back and not recognize THG.
@Ari very true