{"id":68856,"date":"2022-12-08T14:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&p=225172"},"modified":"2022-12-08T16:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T16:22:19","slug":"jennifer-lawrence-says-her-weight-was-the-biggest-conversation-with-the-hunger-games-producers","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/jennifer-lawrence-says-her-weight-was-the-biggest-conversation-with-the-hunger-games-producers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jennifer Lawrence Says Her Weight Was the ‘Biggest Conversation’ with ‘The Hunger Games’ Producers"},"content":{"rendered":"
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA – NOVEMBER 19: Jennifer Lawrence attends the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences 13th Governors Awards at Fairmont Century Plaza on November 19, 2022 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Emma McIntyre\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In a new interview, Jennifer Lawrence opened up about her breakout role on The Hunger Games, <\/em>including how literally producers took the franchise’s title when it came to her own body weight.<\/span><\/p>\n

In a conversation with Viola Davis for Variety<\/i><\/span><\/a>\u2019s \u201cActors on Actors\u201d series, Lawrence says she felt a huge responsibility around playing the role of Katniss Everdeen due to the books the films were based on already having a huge audience of young fans. <\/span>\u201cIn Hunger Games<\/i>, it was an awesome responsibility,\u201d Lawrence tells Davis. \u201cThose books were huge, and I knew that the audience was children.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

She continues, \u201cI remember the biggest conversation, of course \u2014 this was pre-#MeToo and I\u2019m a woman \u2014 was weight and \u2018How much weight are you going to lose? Well, it\u2019s called The Hunger Games.\u2019”<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n

Lawrence says she had to work hard to not let these comments impact her mental health, adding that she knew at the time that it was important not to let the young viewers think they had to look a certain way to relate to Katniss. “Along with me being young and growing and not able to be on a diet\u2026I don\u2019t know if I want all of the girls who are going to dress up as Katniss to feel like they can\u2019t because they\u2019re not a certain weight. And I can\u2019t let that seep into my<\/i> brain either.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

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LONDON, ENGLAND – OCTOBER 08: Jennifer Lawrence seen leaving The May Fair Hotel on October 08, 2022 in London, England. (Photo by Ricky Vigil M\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

At the time, it was especially rare in films for an action movie to be led by a woman, such as Katniss in The Hunger Games. <\/em>Years later, Davis got a similar opportunity with her role in The Woman King.\u00a0<\/em>Speaking of how important this representation is for women and girls, Lawrence says, <\/span>\u201cI remember when I was doing Hunger Games<\/i>, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn\u2019t work \u2014 because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.” <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAnd it just makes me so happy every single time I see a movie come out that just blows through every one of those beliefs and proves that it is just a lie to keep certain people out of the movies,” she adds. “To keep certain people in the same positions that they\u2019ve always been in.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Watch the full conversation below.<\/p>\n