Jennifer Lawrence bids farewell to ‘The Hunger Games’.
LOS ANGELES — Jennifer Lawrence is bidding farewell to “The Hunger Games” the wildly popular fantasy franchise that made her a megastar and rare Hollywood action heroine. Lawrence is back as bow-and-arrow badass Katniss Everdeen leading her rebels deeper into the fight against injustice in their dystopian world in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2″, opening around the globe November 18-20. But the movie marks the final chapter in the hugely successful saga that saw Lawrence — at 25 already an Oscar winner and the world’s highest-paid actress — catapulted to fame. “I think it will be pretty bizarre when the movie is finally out and… everything is officially done,” Lawrence told reporters in Los Angeles Saturday during a press preview. The series, adapted from the teen novels of Suzanne Collins, tells the story of Everdeen’s battle to survive in a reality TV-style life-and-death game in a post-apocalyptic future state.
In the final installment, Everdeen must cope with the emotional instability of her love-lorn admirer Peeta, played by Josh Hutcherson, while still enjoying the support of the other man in her life, best friend Gale (Liam Hemsworth). Lawrence said it took her a while to adapt to her new life in the spotlight amid the massive “Hunger Games” success — and the pressure that accompanied it. In her post for Lenny, a newsletter co-founded by fellow actress Lena Dunham, Lawrence said that when she found out from Sony emails leaked last year that she was paid less than her male co-stars in the hit movie “American Hustle”, she didn’t get mad at Sony but at herself.