Jennifer Lawrence: «At the time of The Hunger Games they asked me to lose weight to get the part»
The actress chose to maintain a healthy physique on the set, without distorting her image: "I didn't want little girls to be able to say 'I want to be like her so I'm skipping dinner'"
« How much weight are you willing to lose to get the part? ».
The question, recurring on the sets, hasn't spared actress Jennifer Lawrence either, who revealed - in the "Actors on Actors" series of the entertainment magazine Variety - all the pressure she had to undergo to interpret the character that consecrated in the world film scene: Katniss Everdeen.
At the time of the " Hunger Games " saga, the girl, who is now 32 years old, was in her early twenties. «It was 2012. The part in the film was an extraordinary responsibility, I knew that the audience was mainly children . I remember that in the beginning the main discussion was about how much weight I was willing to lose. Besides being young, still growing, and not able to diet, I didn't want little girls dressing as Katniss to feel uncomfortable about the weight ."
Throughout the four films in the series, as reported in Vanity Fair, Lawrence has often spoken about the harmful conversations around her body for the role she plays. « I will never go hungry for the part. I had one thing very clear during training, I was trying to have a strong and fit body, not malnourished or thin ».
Thanks to her performance, the actress was crowned by critics as the highest-grossing action heroine of all time . In 2012, however, was defined by Rolling Stone magazine as "the most talented young actress in all of America".
(Unioneonline/vf)
