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 Lawrence, who criticized the disparity in pay between men and
women actors in Hollywood films in an open letter this month,
was asked at a news conference whether the Katniss character had
motivated her to address the issue.
"I don't see how I couldn't be inspired by this character, I
mean I was so inspired by her when I read the books, it's the
reason I wanted to play her," she said, a day before the world
premiere of "The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2" in Berlin.
"So I think it would be impossible to go four years with this
character and not be inspired by her."
Co-star Donald Sutherland, who plays the tyrannical President
Snow whose government is the target of the revolution led by
Katniss, said he hoped the hugely popular films would motivate
young people worldwide to become political activists.
"If it doesn't work, we're dead, all of us, if we don't evoke
climate change, if we don't solve refugee problems, we don't do
any of that, we're dead," Sutherland said, adding that a film
could be a trigger for change.
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"I know that it can because 'Paths of Glory', Stanley Kubrick's
film, politicized me in 1956," the Canadian actor said. "So this one
is universal, it goes all over the world and young people love it."
Lawrence, who has become one of the brightest stars in Hollywood
largely on the basis of the "Hunger Games" films based on the novels
by Suzanne Collins, said that for her the hardest aspect of playing
Katniss was the fact that the character was a slow burn when it came
to becoming a diehard revolutionary.
"I wanted her to be a warrior right away, I wanted her to want to be
a leader," Lawrence said. "I had to keep my own personal emotions
about her situation out of my performance."
(Reporting by Reuters TV; Writing by Michael Roddy; Editing by
Alison Williams)
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