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Actress Jennifer Lawrence is one of the biggest stars in Hollywood and has starred in multiple acclaimed projects. She is mostly well-known for her starring role as Katniss Everdeen in the young-adult fantasy franchiseThe Hunger Games. The actress starred in all four of the films based on the novel franchise, which earned over $3.1 billion globally.
The story is set in a dystopian world where every year a pair of tributes are chosen from twelve districts to compete in a survivor-based game show called The Hunger Games. Lawrence had to train extensively for the role and even mastered archery. However, the actress reportedly had an accident while training, damaging her ear for a while.
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Jennifer Lawrence In TheHunger GamesFranchise
WhenJennifer Lawrencewas cast as Katniss Everdeen inThe Hunger Games, she was reportedly already filming forX-Men: First Class, in which she played the role of a younger Mystique. Lawrence reportedly beat out prominent female actors such as Hailee Steinfeld, Saoirse Ronan, Chloë Grace Moretz, and Emma Roberts for the role.
Lawrence revealed that she was initially hesitant about the role as she knew the level of fame that starring in a young-adult fantasy franchise would lead to. She then decided to go for it after falling in love with the character. She said in an interview withNPR,
“A yes-or-no question very rarely changes your entire life…I mostly just said, ‘You know what? I love this character. I love this movie. I believe in it, and I’m going to say ‘yes’ for the same reasons that I would say ‘yes’ to any indie.’”
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Jennifer Lawrence also reportedly trained extensively for the role, talking up archery, rock and tree climbing, parkour, and more to be ready for the arena sequences. She reportedly had an injury on the last day of her training schedule when she ran into a wall while running at top speed. She spoke about her experience training for the film,
“I really, really enjoyed archery. I had an amazing instructor, Khatuna [Lorig]. She was Georgian. She was an excellent instructor — very, very strict. If I had bad form, she would pinch my ear…It totally changed my body….when I went back for the fitting for the second movie for Catching Fire, my shoulders were 2 inches broader and my right arm is 1 inch longer than my left arm.”
The actress’ performance as Katniss Everdeen was universally lauded and the film made over $694 million at the box office, leading to a sequel.
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Jennifer Lawrence Injured Her Ear While Training ForCatching Fire
After the mammoth success ofThe Hunger Games, the studio behind the film quickly commissioned a sequel based on the second novelCatching Fire. Jennifer Lawrence had to go back to training for the second film, which had a hectic schedule. Lawrence went back to her training for archery, swimming, running, and combat for the second film.
In an interview withVanity Fair, Lawrence revealed that she had injured her ear while training and had also burst her eardrum while filming the cornucopia scenes. She said,
“I went deaf in one ear for months. . . . But that wasn’t actually physically challenging. It was just ear-challenging because I got all of these ear infections from the diving and the water and all of that stuff. And then a jet from one of the cornucopia scenes punctured my eardrum.”
The actress joined the sets in February a day after winning her Oscar for Best Actress for the filmSilver Linings Playbookand she was also set to reprise her role as Mystique inX-Men: Day of Future Past. However, the actress made time for theHunger Gamessequel and would go on to return for the last two films.
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Nishanth A is a Senior Entertainment Writer at FandomWire, majorly focusing on TV shows with over 2,000 articles published. He has been an entertainment journalist for the past two years and a scriptwriter at various corporations before that, working on educational content. With a Communications, English Literature, and Psychology triple major, Nishanth usually covers news and analyses on Star Trek, particularly Strange New Worlds and The Next Generation; Doctor Who, the DCU, and more.A Nolan fan, Nishanth spends his time exploring the filmographies of various directors with an auteurial style or can be found making short movies of his own. He has also contributed as a feature writer for Film Companion, focusing on the South division.
