Although Elizabeth Banks was promoting her new film, Man on a Ledge, Crave Online was able to get in some Hunger Games-related questions (which we always appreciate!). Check out part of the interview:
I saw some stills of you in the film and you have a very distinctive look. Is that just the style in the future?
Everything that we did in the movie is based very specifically on the book. We are very faithful to the book. So Suzanne Collins, the author of The Hunger Games, came up with all this crazy, kinky stuff for what she wanted everybody to look like, and we put it into the movie. So don’t blame me.
Oh, I’m not complaining. I think it’s hot.
We all sort of collaborated […] Everybody who reads the book has their own image in their mind and interprets it in their own way. So our version of Effie is, it’s like six different people’s interpretations, mixed together and put into this.
I’m really looking forward to seeing it. I keep looking at this book and thinking, “Oh, I should read that, but I’m so busy…”
It will take you five hours to read the whole thing. You will not be able to put it down.
Were you a fan before you signed on to the movie?
Yes, I’m actually a proud fan. I was an early adopter of the books. I read the books long before they were bestsellers. It was given to me by a publishing friend, and so I had checked them out forever ago.