According to Jennifer Lawrence, the biggest conversation surrounding her casting in The Hunger Games was “How much weight are you going to lose?”
She told Viola Davis for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series that she didn’t feel comfortable losing weight to play a character from a book beloved by children.
Lawrence said, “Along with me being young and growing and not able to be on a diet, I don’t know if I want all of the girls who are going to dress up as Katniss to feel like they can’t because they’re not a certain weight. And I can’t let that seep into my brain either.”