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Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence says she’s ready to return as Katniss Everdeen in the Hunger Games series.
Speaking to Variety yesterday in a Zoom video interview while promoting her R-rated new coming-of-age comedy No Hard Feelings, Lawrence was asked about the potential for her return to the role.
She said: “Oh my god – totally! If Katniss could ever come back into my life, it would be 100%.” She then looked offstage and commented, “My producing partner just gave her a hug.”
Lawrence starred in four films that were released annually between 2012 and 2015. Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Mahershala Ali, Lenny Kravitz, Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Jena Malone, Natalie Dormer and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman starred.
Gary Ross directed the original with the following three films, directed by Francis Lawrence, who returns this fall with the prequel film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents, set decades before the events of the tetralogy that depicts the rise of Coriolanus Snow to power to become President of Panem.
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 seduce their 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman). he comes out of his shell.
The Lawrence-directed film No Hard Feelings hits theaters June 23. It’s about a 32-year-old Uber driver hired by a wealthy couple (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) to date their 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) and seduce him in order to help him get out to get out of his shell before he goes to college.