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Jennifer Lawrence is ready to play girl on fire again.
The Oscar winner says she’s open to returning to the Hunger Games franchise after becoming a household name for her work as Katniss in the four films.
“Oh my god – totally!” Lawrence told me Friday morning during a Zoom video interview while promoting her new R-rated coming-of-age comedy No Hard Feelings. “If Katniss could ever come back into my life, it would be 100 percent.”
Glancing behind the camera, she added, “My producing partner just held her heart tight.”
The four parts of The Hunger Games starred Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland and Woody Harrelson. The first, released in 2012, was directed by Gary Ross, the following three were directed by Francis Lawrence.
An upcoming prequel movie, The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents, starring Viola Davis, Rachel Zegler, Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Jason Schwartzman and Hunter Schafer. The film depicts Coriolanus Snow’s rise to power and President of Panem. Release is scheduled for November 17th.
No Hard Feelings is a raunchy comedy starring Lawrence as a 32-year-old Uber driver hired by a wealthy couple (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) to date and raise their 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman). seduce. to help him get out of his shell before he goes to college in exchange for a car.
I asked 21-year-old Feldman if he remembered first seeing Lawrence in The Hunger Games.
“You’re probably not even born yet,” Lawrence said jokingly.
Feldman replied, “I was probably about 10 years old. I read the books and then the movies came out and it was a phenomenon. I recently watched and texted them just for fun [Lawrence] when it happened. These moves are so good. The whole genre didn’t exist yet. Little did we know that this genre of film contained such an amazing, truthful and beautiful performance from Jen.”
Lawrence quipped, “I can’t believe you could read when you were ten.”
No Hard Feelings, directed by Gene Stupnitsky (Good Boys), hits theaters June 23.
