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Hunger Games Director on Recasting Woody Harrelson’s Haymitch
ComingSoon.netStory by Apoorv Rastogi
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Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence reveals the challenge of recasting a young Haymitch for the upcoming prequel film, 'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping'.
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- The casting process for a younger Haymitch will be similar to how they found a young President Snow in 'The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes', requiring an actor with the right mix of intelligence, sophistication, irreverence, and gravitas.
- Lawrence emphasized that they'll need to find an actor who embodies the key elements that made Woody Harrelson's Haymitch so compelling - the humor, darkness, mischievousness, and other distinctive traits that made the character so iconic.
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Francis Lawrence, Woody Harrelson, Suzanne Collins, Donald Sutherland, Tom Blythe, The Hunger Games, The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes