Jennifer Lawrence in 'Cosmopolitan' Magazine (Greece) June 2011

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Collider Weighs In: The Hunger Games Movie Adaptation

Collider.com has a new article up examining how the Hunger Games novel will translate onto the silver screen. The piece, which discusses everything from casting Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, to the Twilight comparisons, to the PG-13 rating, gives a good overview of what will work on screen, and what might need to change.

"But toning down the violence and tweaking the costumes isn’t a big deal. While they do help color the world, they’re not essential to the plot. A larger question is can a director like Ross introduce the brutality and bleakness required of the story. His specialty up to this point has been feel-good pictures like Pleasantville and Seabiscuit and The Hunger Games doesn’t live anywhere close to those two movies. That’s not to say he isn’t capable of doing a strong adaptation, but it will most likely be completely unlike anything we’ve seen from him before.

The biggest challenge is the romance between Katniss and Peeta. The two tributes know they have to put on a show of romance for the viewers and sponsors, but Katniss’ internal monologue lets us know that she’s actually starting to fall for Peeta. But because this is a movie, how will Ross make the distinction between Katniss playing towards the TV cameras and playing towards the real camera? My first thought is to cut between a “TV feed” when she’s faking and the actual movie when she’s being authentic, but that approach may be a little too obvious and distracting."

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Jennifer Lawrence for Marie Claire (July 2011)

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Just 10 minutes in Jennifer Lawrence's company and it's clear this is no run-of-the-mill Hollywood ingénue. Part Renee Zellweger, part Jodie Foster, part Tina Fey, there's something special about her. Pretty as a picture, the starlet struck a pose in flowing nude Rochas gown, with Detail and Alex Monroe gold jewellery.

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Jennifer Lawrence Covers Flare Magazine -- June 2011

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Jennifer Lawrence on July Cover of 'Marie Claire' UK

We've got a very special treat in store for you this weekend - pick up The Saturday Times and you'll get a free limited edition copy of Marie Claire!
The 50-page bite-size issue contains a wealth of features you won't see anywhere else, from a new column from MC favourite Grace Dent to an exclusive interview with Jean Paul Gaultier, and a sneak peek at our stunning July cover star, Jennifer Lawrence.

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It's a shock to see Jennifer Lawrence with dark hair. Earlier this spring, when Lionsgate announced that the actress would anchor The Hunger Games, the first in a series of films based on Suzanne Collins'wildly popular dystopian trilogy there was a predictable outcry from some young fans.

They feared that Lawrence, the 2O-year-old who earned an Oscar nomination for her performance in last year's harshly beautiful indie Winter's Bone, was too old, too blond, too tall, too pale, too pretty to play the part of a teenager fighting to the death in a brutal government- ordered competition. And yet here she is in early May at a Los Angeles archery range, with one intense week of training left before she's due on the North Carolina set. And she looks every bit as fierce as fans would demand of their Katniss Everdeen. Lawrence's dark tresses are scraped back into a ponytail, her skin tawny from long mornings in the sun. "I think I just have to stay tan," she tells me of adjusting to her new hair. "Or I'll look like the girl from The Ring!'

For over a month, Lawrence has been enduring a grueling training pro- gram consisting of archery track work, stunt drills, and yoga. She says that her archery coach, a four-time Olympian from Eastern Europe, spent weeks bemoaning her lack of skills. Apparently, it was only after the woman declared her "helpless!" that Lawrence gritted her teeth and hit the bull's-eye. "What happened?" her coach cried in surprise. Lawrence turned to her and growled, her Southern accent making a rare appearance, "You pissed me off!"

Today, Lawrence holds a large bow aloft as her eyes narrow on the target. When her arrow thwacks into the bull's- eye, she smiles and-as she would do when she scored a basket for her child- hood basketball team in Louisville, Ky.-- launches into cartwheels.

Lawrence needs to be in peak condition to embody Katniss, the 16-year- old girl plucked from her district to battle other unlucky children in a reality TV death match. Gary Ross, who's directing The Hunger Games (in theaters March 23,2012), stressed to her trainer that while he by no means wants her gaunt when shooting begins on the PG-13 film later this month, she does have to portray a girl desperate for food. (Meanwhile, costars Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, who'll play Katniss' staunch District 12 allies Peeta and Gale, are busy bulking themselves up in a weight-training regimen. 'Apparently I'm the only one in the district who's starving," jokes Lawrence.)

When Lawrence officially signed on to play Katniss, some fans may have complained, but the revered author of the Hunger Games series (nearly 10 million copies and counting) was elated enough to call and offer her congratulations. "I feel like when you said yes, the world got lifted off of my shoulders," Collins told the actress. That weight has now been shifted onto Lawrence, who must personify the grit and private vulnerability of a most beloved heroine. "Don't worry about Jen " says Ross with an admiring laughter. "She's a very very powerful person."

After archery, Lawrence is due across town at the Santa Monica College track for an hour of speed drills. Before getting into her white Volkswagen, she turns back with a girlish grin.

"Let's race there!" she says.

She wins.

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Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in 'Entertainment Weekly' Magazine Scans

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First look at Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in 'The Hunger Games' -- EXCLUSIVE

Fans of The Hunger Games – Suzanne Collins’ terrifically urgent dystopian trilogy about children forced to fight to the death — have always been protective of 16-year-old heroine Katniss Everdeen. So when Lionsgate and director Gary Ross announced that they had cast 20-year-old Oscar nominee Jennifer Lawrence (Winter’s Bone) in the lead role, the community was thrown into an inevitable tailspin. Was she too old, too blonde, too pale, too pretty to do the gritty warrior girl justice? In this week’s cover story, EW was granted an exclusive interview with a newly brunette Lawrence, and spent hours watching her train on a Los Angeles archery range and track, just days before she was due on the North Carolina set.

In a free-wheeling interview, Lawrence describes her first encounter with Ross last winter, during the height of Oscar season. “He was asking me what the experience was like,” she recalls, “and I just kind of opened up and said, ‘I feel like a rag doll. I have hair and makeup people coming to my house every day and putting me in new, uncomfortable, weird dresses and expensive shoes, and I just shut down and raise my arms up for them to get the dress on, and pout my lips when they need to put the lipstick on.’ And we both started laughing because that’s exactly what it’s like for Katniss in the Capitol. She was a girl who’s all of a sudden being introduced to fame. I know what that feels like to have all this flurry around you and feel like, ‘Oh, no, I don’t belong here.’”

When Lawrence was offered the role, she describes her response as a mixture of elation — and desperate anxiety. “I knew that as soon as I said yes, my life would change,” she says. “And I walked around an entire day thinking ‘It’s not too late, I could still go back and do indies, I haven’t said yes yet, it’s not too late.’”
And yet, who can turn their back on Katniss? “I love this story,” she says, “and if I had said no, I would regret it every day.” After officially signing on, Suzanne Collins herself called to offer a starstruck Lawrence her most hearty congratulations. “I feel like when you said yes,” the author told her, “the world got lifted off my shoulders.”

For more on The Hunger Games, including photos of Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss and a guide to the film’s other characters, pick up the new issue of Entertainment Weekly, on stands May 20.

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