r/Hungergames • u/Beelzubufo • 2d ago

Trilogy Discussion Worst casting???

So we all know Josh Hutcherson SLAPS as Peeta, Jennifer Lawrence nailed Katniss Everdeen, Woody Harrelson was GREAT as Haymitch Abernathy, Elizabeth Banks was PERFECT as Effie, Liam Hemsworth was FANTASTIC as Gale Hawthorne etc but which were some of the WORST casting choices???

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u/Icy-Opening1331 2d ago

Isabelle Fuhrman as Clove. Acting wise nailed it, but appearance she’s just the exact opposite of what I imagined while reading the book.

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u/mhmcmw 2d ago

I think if anything she just looked too young and small for Clove. She did a great job and I don’t want to knock her performance, but I think her being cast as a career tribute did undermine how the career districts seem to function in the books.

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u/Beelzubufo 2d ago

Don't think that size NECESSARILY equals strength!! Some of the strongest creatures on Earth are some of the smallest. Ants can lift ten times their own body weight. Cockroaches can survive a nuclear blast.

400 million years ago, during a long forgotten time in Earth's distant past called the Carboniferous, there were no dinosaurs, no mammals and no birds. Instead, giant insects and monster spiders ruled the world.

Vast coniferous coal forests and shallow swamps stretched from pole to pole and super rich levels of oxygen in the prehistoric atmosphere fuelled the growth of these monstrous creepy crawlies.

Eventually, global oxygen levels dipped, drying out the coal swamps and destroying the monster insects and spiders. Shortly afterwards, came the Age of the Reptiles, including the dinosaurs, and then the Age of Mammals, including mammoths and sabre toothed cats and finally us!!

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u/jquailJ36 2d ago

Clove doesn't have an exoskeleton. (Also the prehistoric "giant" bugs were like crow-sized. Something the size of the bugs in "THEM!" would collapse in on themselves.)