Due to being sick, Jennifer Lawrence was not on set when Jena Malone shot her iconic elevator entrance as Johanna Mason in ‘Catching Fire.’
“That’s the magic of filmmaking,” says Jena Malone.
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Speaking with Variety on Monday at the Los Angeles premiere of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, Jena Malone reveled that Jennifer Lawrence wasn’t actually in that elevator the day she filmed that scene.
“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.
Jena Malone recalls the day she filmed Johanna Mason’s elevator scene in HungerGames sequel “Catching Fire.” https://t.co/Qfcf6hSWHV pic.twitter.com/VgUZH21Apl
— Variety (@Variety) November 14, 2023
