dark skin.
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Archived from the IMDb Discussion Forums — The Hunger Games
photoqueen20002000 — 9 years ago(November 28, 2016 10:21 AM)
Do you think katniss should have been played by"a woman of color". The book said she had olive skin but I just watched a video that said jlaw was too white to play katniss.
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Btrixkiddo35 — 9 years ago(January 07, 2017 04:00 AM)
No, They never described Katniss as being black and I am a person of color who read the books and saw the movies. As you said, olive skin can pertain to Italians, Greeks and many others who are not on the fair side. Really it just means they could have cast anyone as Katniss, they had open range here, however Katniss' sister and mother were described that way and they basically said she looked like her dad.
Now Rue, to me, should have been played by a darker skinned actress. She was described as having dark skin similar to her partner Thresh, I don't think she was as deep in time as him(haven't read the books in a long while) but it is what it is. The roles have been cast and the movie(s) has(ve) been made. The End. -
CharlesTheBold — 9 years ago(January 16, 2017 07:38 AM)
I think Suzanne Collins said she visualized Katniss as having mixed-race ancestry. She implied that there could have been a lot of intermarriage between now and Katniss's era.
Katniss herself never refers to anybody as "white" or "black" ; to her the crucial thing is where in Panem they are from.