Jennifer Lawrence pressured to lose weight for Hunger Games role

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Jennifer Lawrence was pressured to lose weight for her role in The Hunger Games. The 32-year-old actress starred as Katniss Everdeen in the franchise and recalled how she was asked about how she planned to alter her body for the part — even though she was only 20 at the time. In conversation with Viola Davis for Variety's Actors on...

Instagram/The Hunger GamesThe 32-year-old actress starred as Katniss Everdeen in the franchise and recalled how she was asked about how she planned to alter her body for the part — even though she was only 20 at the time.

"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." The Causeway star said: "I remember when I was doing Hunger Games, nobody had ever put a woman in the lead of an action movie because it wouldn't work — because we were told girls and boys can both identify with a male lead, but boys cannot identify with a female lead.

 

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