The Hunger Games director Gary Ross recalls Jennifer Lawrence's audition that landed her Katniss. 'Jennifer blew the doors off the place.'
The Hunger Games director Gary Ross reminisces about Jennifer Lawrence's audition for the young adult blockbuster. In 2022, Jennifer Lawrence is one of the most respected young actresses in the industry.
However, despite the fact that she'd already been nominated for Best Actress for an early role in Winter's Bone, her titanic career success couldn't have been achieved without being cast in the 2012 film The Hunger Games, adapted from the Suzanne Collins novel of the same name. She starred in the dystopian thriller as Katniss Everdeen, a young woman who is forced to participate in a life-or-death tournament with 23 other kids from different districts.
Honestly, I had a real sense of who I wanted before the auditions, but because it was a huge franchise the studio wanted everyone to read, which was fine. It was fun, actually. Jennifer blew the doors off the place. Josh was pitch-perfect. I had no idea that Liam wasn’t American until I talked to him when the reading was over. They were all just great. These were honestly easy decisions for me.
Lawrence's impressive audition was a harbinger of things to come. After securing the role of Katniss, she would go on to play the character in three more Hunger Games films, all the way through Mockingjay - Part 2 in 2015. Collectively, the films earned $1.5 billion on the domestic front alone, making her one of the most bankable stars of the decade. Indeed, in 2014 Jennifer Lawrence and Chris Pratt were ranked by Forbes as the two highest-grossing stars of the year.
She wouldn't have achieved this success if it weren't for the power she brought to The Hunger Games. With a different star in the lead, the potential film franchise might have crashed and burned like so many aborted YA adaptations, including box office disappointments The Golden Compass and The 5th Wave. Clearly Lawrence showed just as much of this potential from the very first time she stepped into the room, so she has well earned this longstanding success.
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