Mockingjay Press Conference Photo Credit Kat Hughes
The end of The Hunger Games movies arrives next week as The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two is released in cinemas. The film stops in one last time with Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and her friends; events take a much darker turn as all twelve districts are at war with the Capitol.
Having played their characters over multiple films the cast have clearly bonded with their on screen counterparts, but now that the series is over what did Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Sam Claflin and the rest admire most about the likes of Gale, Peeta and Finnick? We asked them just that at the Mockingjay press conference:
SAM CLAFLIN: The thing that I certainly related to most personally was this more melancholic side of Finnick which I think a lot of people overlooked when they were first introduced to him. Purely because I think he had a facade, there was a side to him, he put on a face, a mask to manipulate the population into loving him. But actually deep down is a man who is a lover not a fighter. He obviously has to fight to survive, as do the entire population of Panem. He’s a sensitive soul, damaged by what happened in his life, not that I personally am, but I think that aspect of him and that he could hide it and hide it so well is something I really admire.
LIAM HEMSWORTH: God, just simply put, the fact that he was always prepared to stand up for what he believed in. That was something I was brought up with. I had great parents that taught me great values and to always respect other peoples beliefs and always stand up for what you believe in. It was something that I originally identified with Gale over the course of the films. A lot happens and I think he loses himself a little bit towards the end, makes the wrong decision and goes a little too far with what’s right and wrong in war. That’s when you see all of the disagreement between himself and Katniss.
JOSH HUTCHERSON: If you look at all three, Gale, Peeta, and Katniss, they are all people who stand for what they believe in. You can’t really take that away from them. They’re very resolute in their decisions. I think that maybe that comes from being so oppressed. Once you take something from every, take everything from someone all they have left is themselves. From that, these people come up from District 12, the bottom of the barrel, and they rise up and create a revolution because they have already had everything else taken so what else is there to take? They might as well risk it all for a change.
Mockingjay Press Conference Photo Credit Kat Hughes
WOODY HARRELSON: What I share with my character… I love the people that I’m mentoring.
JOSH HUTCHERSON: Yeah?
WH: (nods) Yeah.
JH: That’s real sweet.
WH: Also that I have a very zealous belief that something deep is wrong in our society, in our world and that we need some kind of, if not a revolution, an evolution.
STANLEY TUCCI: It’s very hard to admire anything about Caesar. The only thing I can think of is he’s duplicitous, there’s no moral centre there. I suppose one thing that I admire about him is that he’s endlessly entertaining.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part Two arrives in cinemas on 19th November.
