Television and Cinema Verities #114

“I’m playing a real girl that is stuck. The only thing that she wants, and what makes her a true hero, is she wants as little death as possible. She doesn’t want a war to get revenge. She wants to fix the situation and I think the cruelty of the Capitol gets to a place where you can’t not do something, you know? You have to act.”

-Jennifer Lawrence discusses her heroic role in The Hunger Games franchise, at Slash Film, in November of 2013. I’ll be posting my review of Catching Fire this Thursday morning.