This woman is on fire.
Happy birthday, Jennifer Lawrence! The Oscar winner will be 30 on August 15 and we celebrate this milestone by reviewing one of her most iconic roles: Katniss Everdeen.
Lawrence landed one of Hollywood’s most coveted roles when he chose to star in The Hunger Games, the 2012 film adaptation of Suzanne Collins’ best and best novels. And since then, J-Law has become one of the most beloved, lively and profitable celebrities, the 4 films in the franchise collectively contribute nearly $2 billion worldwide. We assume you can simply say that the odds were definitely in your favor.
But did you know that 3 actresses have reached the last round of casting? Or that Lawrence once admitted to kissing one of his main hunger games, men off-screen? May the war (Josh Hutcherson) opposed to Gale (Liam Hemsworth) be re-ignited.
In honor of Lawrence’s 30th anniversary, we revealed 25 fun facts about the Hunger Games franchise.
1. After being “completely obsessed” with the series through reading the books, the manufacturer Nina Jacobson became involved in Suzanne Collins’ “relentless search” to download the rights in 2009, later told The Hollywood Reporter.
Because she had no studio contract at the time, Jacobson explained at the point of sale, “I tied myself to him with a handshake, and then we took him to town together.” Lionsgate volunteered as a distributor.
2. In 2010, the script produced The Black List, an annual review of Hollywood’s best uninsured scripts.
3. The Hunger Games broke the record for sales of Fandango.com the first day that cinema tickets were made in 2012, surpassing the previous issue of The Twilight Saga: Eclipse and representing 83% of the site’s sales that day.
4. Prior to the final tribute for selected Katniss, the final resolution was made through several actresses: Jennifer Lawrence, Hailee Steinfeld, Abigail Breslin and Emily Browning.
5. Other stars who later auditioned for the role were Lily Collins, Shailene Woodley, Chloe Moretz, Emma Roberts and Brie Larson.
6. As it is an herbal blonde, Lawrence dyed her hair for the paper, the color experts of the film went through an intense procedure to find the best tone.
“I rented $30,000 worth of hair of all shades of brown, from soft brown to brown with a little red,” chief hairdresser Linda Flowers told BellaSugar. “Jennifer found it comfortable that we weren’t going to experiment with her color.”
7. In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Suzanne Collins expressed how much she was captivated by Josh Hutcherson as Peeta, Katniss’s sweet co-honor. “If Josh had been bright purple and had six-foot wings and, given that audition, he would have been like ‘Jette-le! We can paint around the wings!” he said. “He was so good.”
8. Alexander Ludwig tried to oppose Lawrence to play Peeta, and did not get the part, inspired the manufacturers enough to win the role of Cato, the antagonistic tribute to District 2.
9. Other actors brought to the screen with the female lead role before Hutcherson was selected were Hunter Parrish, Lucas Till and Evan Peters.
10. Before landing, the role of Katniss’s most productive old friend, Gale, Liam Hemsworth best known for gambling alongside his then-friend Miley Cyrus in The Last Song, and ready for the lead role in Marvel’s Thor, eventually wasting his older brother Chris. Hemsworth.
“The casting of The Hunger Games was like assembled pieces of an epic puzzle and Liam as Gale was one of the perfectly combined pieces,” manufacturer Jon Kilik told Emmanuel Levy about the casting’s decision. “He has such a strong physical presence and a kind of heroic herbal quality that in fact embodies who Gale is in the book.”
11. Other actors who auditioned with Lawrence to play Gale David Henrie, Robbie Amell and Drew Roy.
12. When J-Law gave the impression on Watch What Happens Live in 2015, he admitted that he had kissed one of his main men while the cameras were not recording.
“Recently it was said that you and Liam Hemsworth had a PDA at the Waverly Inn. Have you ever kissed when the cameras weren’t recording?” Andy Cohen asked Lawrence, playing Plead the Fifth. “Liam and I grew up together. Liam’s sexy. What would you have done? Yes, I did,” he admitted, and then, when Cohen said he’d make up his mind for Gale over Peeta, Jennifer replied, “I did, to a point.”
13. After his separation from Miley Cyrus, Hemsworth revealed that Lawrence had helped him through difficult times.
“Being surrounded like Jen, who is so fair and laughs all day, I have to be father-in-law now,” the Australian actor told Cosmopolitan in 2014. “I’m much happier Array … I’m more comfortable in my own skin than ever. “
14. In Catching Fire, the styling team used more than 350 wigs and required 40 hairdressers and 20 apprentices for everyone to be able to film, through Cosmopolitan. Meanwhile, the costume branch had to equip more than 500 extras for the Capitol scenes.
15. During the filming of the sequel, Lawrence had a terrible ear infection. Linda Flowers told Cosmo: “It’s hard to do this kind of thing when there’s no blood and you’re in the water most of the day.”
16. For Effie Trinkett, the flamboyant and colorful escort of Elizabeth Banks, costume designer Trish Summerville to Vanity Fair, a designer proved to be the right maxim.
“McQueen is so generous with the coins they lent us,” he said. “We basically used them in Effie because it was very suitable for her. The silhouettes and shapes worked very well for your character.
17. The notorious “It’s mahogany!” line in Improvised Catching Fire through Banks. Like the kiss between Effie and Haymitch (Woody Harrelson) in Sinsajo – Part 2, which neither in the e-book nor in the script.
“We have planned this moment. Woody and I were delivered at that time, it wasn’t written, we stepped forward,” Banks told the Huffington Post. “We have to do it, and the director said to me, “I love it. Let’s see him again. “”
18. Given his elaborate costume, Banks needed help moving into the bathroom. “The biggest challenge was that I couldn’t get into the bathroom. I had the kind of girls on hold,” she revealed on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2012. “They were handing me the toilet paper, decompressing it.”
19. Apart from the main trio, the top coveted role in the franchise was probably Finnick Odair, with many high-level actors vying for the role of Fire Catching. Before Sam Claflin, even though he caught it all, Garrett Hedlund, Armie Hammer and Taylor Kitsch would have been part of the mix.
20. At one point, reports revealed that Robert Pattinson was in talks to play Finnick, subsequently tearing down the rumours in Robert Pattinson’s maximum manner.
“I woke up this morning and saw all those things about me in The Hunger Games. I was quite curious about a second,” he told USA Today. “Then I called my agent. My agent said, ‘No… nobody’s going to offer you that part.'”
21. Given his physical description in the books – muscular, athletic and handsome – Claflin ended up 4 months to play Finnick.
“From the moment I set foot in Atlanta, I got pictures twice a day,” he told Teen Vogue. “As for my diet, I think I’ve eaten more birds than in the world. [Laughter] He ate bird and asparagus for lunch and dinner, and for breakfast, an omelette and oatmeal. And I had to every and every day for 4 months.”
22. Although, first, it was linked to the production of the sequel, Gary Ross left the franchise in April 2012, making the compact timetable a decisive factor.
“As a director, I just don’t have the time to write and prepare the film I would have wanted to make because of the constant and tight production schedule,” he said in a statement. Francis Lawrence would be hired to direct the rest of the films.
23. Lawrence’s genuine nephews had modest but modest roles in the epilogue to the last film.
“They played my kids in the scene we filmed, so it was a fence for this character that I’ve enjoyed for so many years having my circle of relatives there, my circle of family blood, I have to say goodbye to both of them.” Vanity Fair said the star.
24. Lawrence earned a spot on the Billboard Hot One Hundred with his role as “The Hanging Tree” in Sinsajo – Part 1.
25. Taylor Swift co-wrote two songs, “Safe and Sound” and “Eyes Open,” for the films, and the superstar told Rolling Stone, “It’s pretty intense writing about my own life, my own struggles. It’s almost like a vacation to write from someone else’s point of view.”