20 Secrets and techniques About The Starvation Video games Revealed

1. After we inform you each younger actress volunteered as tribute to play The Starvation Video games’ bow-and-arrow wielding heroine Katniss Everdeen, we actually imply it. Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin, Emma Roberts, Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Grace Moretz, Jodelle Ferland, Lyndsy Fonseca, Emily Browning, Shailene Woodley, Kaya Scodelario and Troian Bellisario all auditioned, however Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence was director Gary Ross‘ first selection from the start.

“I completely forged the fitting particular person for the function and for my part there wasn’t even a query who one of the best Katniss was,” Ross advised Leisure Weekly in 2011. “It was the simplest casting determination I ever made in my life.”

2. However Lawrence wanted time to determine whether or not or not she needed to tackle the function, nervous concerning the degree of fame she can be catapulted into. (See: Twilight‘s Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson.)

“It was the nighttime in England, and I used to be in mattress after I bought the decision,” Lawrence advised MTV Information. “And I used to be so in love with the books and the script, and immediately it was proper in my face—and the scale of the choice was terrifying.” In the end, it was her mother, Karen Lawrence, who helped her decide to the film. 

“She referred to as me a hypocrite, as a result of after I was doing indie motion pictures and everybody was asking why I did not do studio motion pictures, I stated, ‘The dimensions of the film would not matter,'” Lawrence recalled. “And she or he stated, ‘Here is a film you’re keen on and also you have been pondering of turning it down due to its dimension.’ I believed, ‘I do not wish to miss out as a result of I am scared. Me being scared, I by no means need that to cease me from doing one thing.’ However I knew in my coronary heart that I needed it—it was about understanding all of the fears.”