Hollywood’s real-life hunger games

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:20:00 +0000

Thank you, thank you, thank you, Jennifer Lawrence for making the point: You don't have to go to ludicrous extremes to play a part.

The 22-year-old star of "The Hunger Games" came under some seriously BS criticism in certain circles last spring over whether her Katniss Everdeen was sufficiently emaciated-looking to be convincing. As Manohla Dargis complained in the New York Times, "A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough to play Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a bad fit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission." The Hollywood Reporter's Todd McCarthy, meanwhile, duly noted her "lingering baby fat."

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Hollywood’s real-life hunger games