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In the scene, Lawrence’s character, Katniss Everdeen, takes an elevator ride with Johanna, Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson) and Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) — whereJohanna strips down nakedin front of them after lamenting, “My stylist is such an idiot.”
“Jen was sick that day, so I ended up doing it without Jen, and so there wasn’t a lot of people in the elevator,” Malone recalled. “So I think we were just winging it and trying to get as much as we could get, ‘cause it was [shot] in a real hotel.”
“But, you know, that’s the magic of filmmaking, is you only need a few seconds to really create something that lasts,” she added.
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Malone also toldVarietythat she was “excited” to seeThe Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, especially since she hasn’t readSuzanne Collins’ 2020 prequel book of the same name.
Also among the cast areRachel Zegler,Hunter Schafer,Peter Dinklage,Viola Davis,Jason SchwartzmanandJosh Andrés Rivera.
“But really, if you look at our reality right now, there’s a lot of mirroring,” she continued. “So I think it’s important to see where this younger generation is gonna take this film, and push it and run with it, and hopefully change the world.”
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As for Malone’s character, while Johanna gets fully nude in the scene where she is introduced, the actress toldVulturein November 2013 that “it was too complicated” for her to do the same.
“My costume, taking the entire thing off, including the shoes, would have taken me 30 minutes. So we were able to make it look like I was getting naked, but it was a little too complicated to do that,” she said at the time. “We would have needed like a 500-story elevator, someone working the buckles of my shoes.”
Asked about how Lawrence, Harrelson, 62, and Hutcherson, 31, reacted in the scene, Malone told the outlet, “I mean, I kind of came in like a whirlwind, so I couldn’t help but maybe own it, so I felt like maybe they were a little bit less in their energy and being more respectful to mine.”
“Because I had to do this complicated, seven-second striptease in an elevator that was in a real hotel with real people around,” she continued. “This one time, just when I’m like, ‘Okay, thanks, let’s do it again sometime,’ the doors open, there I am naked, and there’s a guy holding four coffee cups in a little to-go thing, trying to get in on the elevator.”
“I was like,Uh, this is the most awkward moment of my life,“Malone added. “I think I literally fell down and was just rolling around on the ground laughing.”
source: people.com
