Jennifer Lawrence claims she felt a “loss of control” after the success of “The Hunger Games”

It’s been 10 years since the premiere of “The Hunger Games”, the first chapter of that dystopian saga led by Jennifer Lawrence. This actress then starred in a four-film franchise whose success was such that it was a lightning-fast boost not only for his career, but for all the teenage fantasy stories that bore a distant resemblance.

After that first episode that saw the light in 2012, we saw ‘The Maze Runner’ and ‘Divergent’ and ‘The Giver’ in 2014, films that were the result of a fever that lasted a few more years until the crash of ‘The Giver’. Fifth Wave ‘in 2016. That is, the phenomenon ‘The Hunger Games’ was such as to affect the entire film industry, not just the protagonist of some films that, just as they raised her, made her lose control. Now Lawrence herself explains it in the midst of a review of her career at the London Film Festival’s “Screen Talk” (via Variety), an occasion where she took the opportunity to be honest as to why she she prefers to leave those years behind her.

“I think I’ve lost my sense of control. Between the premiere of ‘The Hunger Games’ and winning the Oscar [por ‘El lado bueno de las cosas’], I became a product to the point of feeling that every step I took was the result of a great group decision. When I reflect now, I just can’t think of the years to come, [porque solo recuerdo que hubo] a loss of control “.

Advice for the new generations

The universe of “The Hunger Games” is about to make a comeback with “The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Serpents”, prequel led by Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth that will tell the origins of the villain of the saga, Coriolanus Snow. A new generation is thus launched to live the experience of giving life to the protagonists of a proposal with the potential to become something very well known. To this Lawrence recommends young artists to focus on having fun, “don’t worry about anything else”.