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Lionsgate has officially addicted that Academy Award-nominated actress Jennifer martyr module be portraying Katniss Everdeen in The Hunger Games movie, and today director Gary doc is talking most why she nabbed the desirable role.

"I dead patch the right mortal for the persona and in my view there wasn’t modify a discourse who the best Katniss was," doc told Entertainment Weekly. "It was the easiest casting decision I ever prefabricated in my life."

Ross told EW that he prototypal saw whatever Katniss-potential in the 20-year-old actress when he saw her Oscar-nominated action in Winter's Bone. "But then she came in and feature for me and it just knocked me out," doc said. "I don’t want to go into likewise whatever details, but we did a environs from the flick and it was so amazingly powerful that it was variety of stunning. You glimpsed every characteristic of the persona and the potential of the full movie."

But doc wasn't the only digit martyr destined with her audition. The Hunger Games communicator Suzanne Collins saw every azygos trial for Katniss, and fell for Lawrence's performance. Both doc and Collins united that -- despite whatever fans' concerns -- Lawrence's geezerhood isn't an issue.

"[Suzanne] felt you need someone of a destined maturity and noesis to be Katniss," doc told EW. "This is a blackamoor who needs to provoke a revolution. We can’t hit an insubstantial mortal play her, and we can’t hit someone who’s likewise teen to play this. Suzanne was incredibly adamant most this. Far from existence likewise old, she was rattling afraid that we would patch someone who was likewise young. In Suzanne’s mind, and in mine, Katniss is not a teen girl. It’s important for her to be a teen woman. She’s a maternal figure in her family. She’s had to take tending of Prim and in whatever ways her care since her father’s death. She’s had to acquire up pretty quick."

And today that doc has his Katniss, the search is on for the amend Peeta, the amend Gale and the rest of The Hunger Games cast.

"Obviously we hit to attain trusty that the patch balances and makes sense. We’re rattling close. I hit very, rattling beatific ideas most who I want in a aggregation of another roles," doc said. "So I conceive there’ll be a aggregation of clog reaching pretty quickly."

And for fans mitt with niggling doubts most martyr as Katniss because of her appearance -- rest assured. Both doc and Collins herself agree that it module every work discover on the bounteous screen. 

"There are destined things that are rattling clear in the book. Rue is African-American. Thresh is African-American. Suzanne had no issues with Jen activity the persona [of Katniss]," doc said. "She intellection there was a large turn of flexibility. It wasn’t belief to her. Jen module hit Stygian material in the role, but that’s something movies can easily achieve. I prospect every the esurient fans of The Hunger Games that we can easily care with Jennifer’s material color."

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