Jennifer Lawrence has us feeling nostalgic after shouting out her former “Starvation Video games” costars in a current “73 Questions” interview with Vogue. Within the decade because the first movie within the franchise made its debut, Lawrence has starred in numerous award-winning movies and has change into a mother to a child boy along with her husband, Cooke Maroney. Even 10 years after the motion sequence ingrained itself within the zeitgeist, Lawrence cannot neglect her favourite takeaway from filming the sequence: the friendship she fashioned with Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson.
“Essentially the most enjoyable I’ve ever had with actors on set is Josh [Hutcherson] and Liam [Hemsworth] on ‘The Starvation Video games.’ Hello, boys,” Lawrence tells the digicam as she walks underneath storm clouds in a mini golf course. After taking just a few pictures on the inexperienced, Lawrence provides that the very best quality in a costar is “kindness and confidence,” giving one other nod to her onscreen love pursuits/survival companions.
“Essentially the most enjoyable I’ve ever had with actors on set is Josh [Hutcherson] and Liam [Hemsworth] on ‘The Starvation Video games.'”
Caught in a love triangle on display screen, the trio rapidly turned the face of the franchise, showing in numerous posters, press conferences, and unique interviews that followers of the e book and movie sequence watched on repeat. Behind the scenes, the costars had been forming a bond that — whereas not the identical as Katniss, Peeta, and Gale’s — was simply as memorable.
“We actually take pleasure in being collectively, do not we?” Hemsworth stated in a 2015 interview with JoBlo Motion pictures about “The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay Half 2.” Whereas Lawrence and Hutcherson met Hemsworth’s remark with laughter, Hutcherson added, “No, it is true. You make these films, and so they’re difficult. They’re exhausting. You are on the press excursions. However you will have an incredible group of individuals. You might have an incredible group with you that make it enjoyable, and as you’ll be able to see, we discover a technique to make all of it fulfilling.”
The “enjoyable” in query? “[Jennifer] usually, proper earlier than a take, would flip to me and ask me if I favored having intercourse with kangaroos — something alongside these traces,” Hemsworth stated on “The Graham Norton Present” in 2016. “You by no means actually know what is going on to come back out of her mouth.” A couple of months earlier, in a 2015 interview on “Watch What Occurs Reside With Andy Cohen,” Lawrence additionally admitted that she and Hemsworth had kissed off display screen. “Liam and I grew up collectively. Liam’s actual scorching. What would you will have carried out?” she stated.
For Hutcherson, the completely happy recollections with Lawrence return to 2011, when the pair first met on the SAG Awards to signify their respective movies, “The Children Are Alright” and “Winter’s Bone.” “She came visiting to me and she or he informed me this story about how when she was about 10 years outdated, she had seen in an area newspaper in Kentucky that this younger actor had gone out to California . . . to change into an actor, and that was me,” Hutcherson informed Yahoo. “And he or she confirmed that to her mother and father and was like, ‘Look, I wish to do that, too. This child [is] doing it.’ So it is loopy that we ended up doing these films collectively.”
Whereas filming the sequence has introduced its challenges over time, the friendship Lawrence, Hemsworth, and Hutcherson have fashioned stays unmatched.
Watch Lawrence’s full Vogue interview right here.
