Jennifer Lawrence Says She Was Pressured to Lose Weight For The Hunger Games

When Jennifer Lawrence earned the biggest role of her career, as the heroically flawed Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games, the first question asked of her was a shocking one: “How much weight are you going to lose?” Lawrence convened with fellow Oscar winner Viola Davis for Variety’s “Actors on Actors” series to discuss the pressures she faced after being cast in the dystopian franchise. “In The Hunger Games, it was an awesome responsibility,” she said. “Those books were huge, and I knew that the audience was children. I remember the biggest conversation was ‘How much weight are you going… Read Full Article