The Starvation Video games Mistake That Made Elizabeth Banks Offended With Jennifer Lawrence

In case you’re in any respect aware of Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence’s public persona, you most likely will not be stunned to study that she instructed her fellow Academy Award winner and “Do not Look Up” co-star, Leonardo DiCaprio, a few bizarre and embarrassing expertise she had on the set of the “Starvation Video games” films. Particularly, Lawrence, who hardly ever (if ever) minces her phrases, instructed DiCaprio that she took a sleeping capsule very first thing within the morning by mistake whereas she was engaged on the second movie within the four-part sequence, “The Starvation Video games: Catching Fireplace,” and her colleague Elizabeth Banks wasn’t notably joyful about the complete scenario.

Talking throughout Selection’s Actors on Actors sequence in December 2025, Lawrence and DiCaprio bonded over attempting to get sufficient sleep earlier than lengthy shoots, one thing they each apparently battle with. As Lawrence famous to DiCaprio, “You and I are each obsessive about sleep after we’re working, like counting the hours. Once I did ‘Crimson Sparrow,’ I took an Adderall as a substitute of a sleeping capsule, after which I did not sleep all night time.” Sadly, she did the precise reverse whereas filming “Catching Fireplace” (during which Lawrence performs protagonist and Starvation Video games tribute Katniss Everdeen):

“I additionally as soon as took an Ambien within the morning, pondering it was one thing else. It was a dance scene with Philip Seymour Hoffman on the second ‘Starvation Video games’ film. I used to be hallucinating. Elizabeth Banks obtained actually aggravated with me.” 

Banks, as you may recall, performs Katniss’ stylist Effie Trinket. “However, I saved asking [director Francis Lawrence], ‘And wait, what does this imply? Wait, and what does this imply? What does that imply?'” Lawrence recalled, noting that Banks obtained actually irritated. “She simply threw her sides and was like, ‘Advantageous, let’s simply hold speaking about it.'” Nonetheless, as Lawrence famous, Banks most likely did not know in regards to the Ambien.

In case you do not keep in mind what Jennifer Lawrence and Elizabeth Banks even did within the unique “Starvation Video games” movies, here is a helpful refresher: After we first meet Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen, she’s a young person within the impoverished District 12 of Panem, a dystopian and totalitarian model of North America that is been break up into 12 distinct components, and she or he’s making ready for the annual Reaping, which can select one boy and one woman from every district to struggle to the loss of life within the titular Video games. Regardless of her best efforts, Primrose Everdeen, performed within the movies by Willow Shields, is chosen as the feminine tribute for District 12, so Katniss, her older sister, instantly volunteers as tribute on Prim’s behalf.

That is additionally, by the way, when Katniss first crosses paths with Effie Trinket, the character made well-known on-screen by Banks. An over-the-top girl who’s seemingly enthusiastic in regards to the Video games *which, once more, entails a bunch of kids being pressured to brutally homicide one another, with the only survivor rising from the battle enviornment as victor), Effie is answerable for going to District 12 and selecting the names of the tributes. After Katniss and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) are confirmed because the district’s tributes, she then travels with them to the Capitol and reveals them the ropes. Nonetheless, Effie’s preening exterior hides a deeper particular person; within the two-part closing movie, “Mockingjay,” we see Effie within the insurgent base of District 13, stripped of her garish make-up and outfits and preventing for her survival together with everyone else. Now, with a brand new “Starvation Video games” prequel film on the horizon, one other actor is taking on the function of Effie. So, what does Banks suppose?

In 2025, unique “Starvation Video games” writer Suzanne Collins launched the long-awaited prequel novel “Dawn on the Reaping,” which tells the story of a youthful Haymitch Abernathy and his slender victory throughout the fiftieth Starvation Video games, also referred to as the Second Quarter Quell. Haymitch, who’s usually paired with Effie within the unique “Starvation Video games” films, is performed by Woody Harrelson by the point he serves as Katniss and Peeta’s official Video games mentor (in his capability as the one surviving and recognized Starvation Video games victor from District 12), however he’ll be portrayed by Joseph Zada within the “Dawn on the Reaping” movie adaptation set to launch in fall 2026.

The producers of “Dawn on the Reaping” have assembled a star-studded forged to take over the roles originated by different luminaries, together with Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow (Donald Sutherland within the unique movies and Tom Blyth within the first “Starvation Video games” prequel, “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”), Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee (the function originated by Philip Seymour Hoffman), and Kieran Culkin as Video games host Caesar Flickerman (Stanley Tucci within the first 4 movies). So, what of Effie Trinket? I am genuinely excited to say she’ll be performed by Elle Fanning, whose latest credit embody the whole lot from “A Full Unknown” to “Sentimental Worth” to “Predator: Badlands.”

Not less than Banks appears psyched about this. “I am tremendous excited,” Banks completely instructed Folks Journal. “I texted the producers as nicely, and I believe she’s good. I believe everybody’s actually joyful. And I am actually joyful about that. I am excited for the following technology to have their Effie.” Plenty of us are too … and we’ll get to see Fanning’s tackle this character in “Dawn on the Reaping” on November 20, 2026.