Lawrence Opens Up About ‘Hunger Games’ Return

Oscar-winning actress Jennifer Lawrence has said she’s ready to return to the role of Katniss Everdeen from “The Hunger Games” franchise.

talk with diverse In a Zoom video interview yesterday while promoting the new R-rated comedy “No Hard Feelings,” Lawrence was asked about the possibility of her returning to the role.

Oh my God – totally! If Katniss can come back into my life, 100%.” She then looked away from the camera and commented, “My producing partner clutched at her heart.”

Lawrence had the lead in four films released annually from 2012 to 2015. Co-starring Liam Hemsworth, Josh Hutcherson, Stanley Tucci, Elizabeth Banks, Donald Sutherland, Julianne Moore, Woody Harrelson, Mahershala Ali, Lenny Kravitz, and Jeffrey Wright, Sam Claflin, Natalie Dormer, Jena Malone, and the late Philip Seymour Hoffman.

Gary Ross directed the original film with the next three directed by Francis Lawrence, who will return with an earlier film this fall called “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes,” decades before the events of the Quartet chronicling Coriolanus Snow’s rise to power to become President of Panem.

“No Hard Feelings” is a sinister comedy starring Lawrence as a 32-year-old Uber driver hired by a wealthy couple (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) to date and seduce their 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) to help him come out of his shell.

Lawrence-led “No Hard Feelings” opened in cinemas on June 23. It follows a 32-year-old Uber driver for hire by a wealthy couple (Matthew Broderick and Laura Benanti) to date and seduce their 19-year-old son (Andrew Barth Feldman) to help him break out of his shell before heading off to college.