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Image courtesy TheShoe on FacebookJena Malone is at Coachella this weekend to perform with her band The Shoe. She also made a little time to stop at the Lacoste Beautiful Desert Pool Party and met Glee's Lea Michele.
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Be sure to like Jena's band The Shoe on Facebook and check out their latest video Dead Rabbit Hopes on their youtube channel here.
Jena Malone at the Vanity Fair Oscar party last monthJena Malone recently spoke with Cosmopolitan.com about The Hunger Games, her music career and much more. We loved the tiny tidbit she leaked about only working on Mockingjay two days a month. We were curious why she hadn't been seen on set!
From Cosmopolitan.com:
You know Jena Malone from her movies — Donnie Darko, Sucker Punch, Into the Wild, and of course, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. But when she's not dressed up as a tree and kicking ass as Johanna Mason, Jena has a second career as one half of improvisational pop act The Shoe. Their second album, I'm Okay, drops June 3, and is full of gorgeously melancholy tunes about love. Jena stopped by Cosmopolitan.com to talk about her new record, The Hunger Games, and the age-old Peeta vs. Gale debate.
You just finished shooting Inherent Vice, and you're still working on Mockingjay. How do you also find time to work on your music?
It's been a blessing, because with Hunger Games I have a lot of time off. I've only been working maybe like two days a month on that, so I've had all this time where I can't even really be looking for projects, and I have a lot of space to work on the music.
Jena Malone posted this self-portrait from the Catching Fire set to her instagram yesterday with the caption:
Johanna Mason self portrait in the bathroom of my trailer. On the set of Catching Fire. So excited for the next two installments. When the world turns completely upside down :)
We're excited too, Jena!
Check out a brand new behind the scenes photo from the set of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Jena Malone and Francis Lawrence look ready to film the chariot scene or the infamous elevator scene. It's one of our first really good looks at Jena's District 7 Lumber costume, which was designed by Trish Summerville.
M Magazine just posted a short clip from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire Blu-Ray exclusive 9-part making-of documentary, "Surviving The Game." Josh Hutcherson and Jena Malone talk about filming with a new cast.
J-14 posted this adorable video of Jena Malone talking about her working relationship with Sam Claflin on The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. "He's a giving actor, he's fun to be around, and he also just falls down all the time. We've got this whole set of actors that just fall down all the time."
Concept sketch of Johanna Mason's chariot costume in Catching Fire
Jena Malone recently spoke with Jarett Wiesleman of BuzzFeed about the release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on Blu-Ray and DVD on March 7th. “Can I just fangirl out for a second?”she asked before talking about the Blu-ray as though she were one of its many admirers as opposed to one of its stars. “There is so much behind-the-scenes footage. We had so much fun on Catching Fire that I’m just excited to sit down and watch.”
Buzzfeed also has an exclusive behind the scenes Catching Fire clip all about Johanna's look. You can watch the video HERE.
“I learned so much about myself through playing Johanna. I knew I had strength as an actor, but Johanna taught me how incredibly strong I could be emotionally, that I could intimidate an entire room with just the energy I walked in with. You can really do some damage through how you carry yourself in life.”
And thanks to her 16-year-old sister, Malone is also aware of the powerful role movies play in shaping the next generation. “My sister really looks to cinema for a lot. Whether it’s purposely or subconsciously, it’s partly how she learns to be good at this or bad at that, how she learns about body issues, and how she learns to deal with friends,” she explained.
That’s why Malone wants every character she plays to have purpose, whether it’s within the film world or the real world. “At the end of the day, film has such an eternal shelf life — my movies will last longer than I’m going to last, so I might as well be making things I think are important, playing women I find inspiring, and playing characters that I would want my children to look up to.”
As a longtime fan of The Hunger Games book series, Malone chased the role of Johanna, recognizing that with its underlying themes of social equality, Catching Fire had much more on its agenda than pure, popcorn pleasures. And LGBT equality is a cause close to Malone’s heart since she grew up with two moms.
“The message of the film is amazing,” she continued. “As a society, we’re much further than where we were when I was younger and I love that people are so much more accepting and loving. Families can focus on just giving love now. That’s the most important thing. I think that’s an incredible time to be a part of.”
Now, after nearly two decades in this business, Malone is preparing her next big endeavor: releasing an album with her band The Shoe on June 3. “I think every young woman should constantly be wanting to surprise herself and constantly be pushing herself until the day she dies,” she said. “I will always be a storyteller, and I’m just excited there are now so many different ways I will get to tell my stories.”
Catching Fire is available March 7th!
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Check out one of the Catching Fire deleted scenes you'll find on the DVD and Blu-ray (out March 7th) thanks to MTV. "Finnick Ties The Knot"
You can order the movie at CatchingFireMovie.com. Confused about which version of the DVD/Blu-Ray to purchase? Check out our opinion on all the different options HERE.
Jena Malone attended the Vanity Fair and FIAT 'Young Hollywood' celebration at No Vacancy on February 25, 2014 in Los Angeles, California. She is still blond and has yet to be spotted on set in Atlanta. When oh when is she filming her Johanna scenes??
Favorite Movie:
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Iron Man 3
Oz the Great and Powerful
The Smurfs 2
Favorite Movie Actress:
Sandra Bullock
Mila Kunis
Jennifer Lawrence
Jayma Mays
Favorite Female Buttkicker:
Sandra Bullock
Jennifer Lawrence
Evangeline Lilly
Jena Malone
Favorite Book:
Diary of a Wimpy Kid series
Harry Potter series
The Hobbit
The Hunger Games series
The Costume Designers Guild Awards are coming up on Saturday, February 22nd (tomorrow!) and Jarrett Wieselman from Buzzfeed spoke with Trish Summerville (nominated for Excellence in Fantasy Film) about her favorite costume from The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.
Who: Trish Summerville
What: Johanna Mason’s District 7 Tribute
When: The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’s chariot scene
Where: Custom-made
Why: Because Johanna has to make an immediate impact and isn’t given pages of dialogue to do so, Summerville had to ensure the character’s clothes spoke volumes. “She had to project a strong sexuality and she had to have this attitude because she’s a previous victor,” Summerville said. “She knows the game and she spends a lot of time in The Capitol, so she’s schooled and aware and knows the drill. She knows she’ll be paraded about, she knows people need to fear her, and be intimidated from the get-go.”
A task made infinitely more difficult since, in this scene, Johanna had to represent lumber, District 7’s chief industry. “Whenever you hear, ‘Dress someone like a tree,’ you think of a school play,” Summerville said, laughing. “I wanted her to be more like a streamlined, threatening warrior. That’s why I did her in a bodysuit and not a dress because she doesn’t have a feminine soft quality.”
Johanna's chariot costume is currently on display at the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles. Photo by Joe Kucharski/Tyranny of StyleTo create the killer couture (which is only seen from the waist up in the final film), Summerville incorporated pieces of actual bark into a tightly constructed leather corset, which was accented with three-dimensional green paint. That was paired with Eddie Borgo bracelets that resembled thorns, and Alexander McQueen boots that had vine detailing down the heel. “All of those pieces worked so well together,” she recalled. “Johanna’s dramatic and, in her mind, thinks she’s the tribute who stands out the most in that moment.”
Wiseman talks to 16 other nominated costume designers from tv and movies in his article HERE.
The 15th Annual Costume Designers Guild Awards will be held on Saturday, February 22nd, 2014 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California.
You can see Johanna's costume on display at The Art of Motion Picture Costume Design Exhibit at the FIDM Museum in Los Angeles through April 26th.
Jena Malone attended the launch of Designer's House at HD Buttercup in Los Angeles on Wednesday. Designer’s House is a marketplace that provides insider access to high-end home furnishings from elite interior designers and boutiques.
Jena Malone attended Delta Air Lines 2014 Grammy Weekend Private Reception held at the SoHo House in West Hollywood last night (Thursday January 23rd). She even made Entertainment Tonight's "Outfit of the Day" for her adorable look.
The 56th Annual GRAMMY Awards will take place live on Sunday, Jan. 26 at Staples Center in Los Angeles and will be broadcast on CBS from 8–11:30 p.m. (ET/PT).
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Sam Claflin and Jena Malone talk about Mockingjay and their characters Finnick Odair and Johanna Mason in Empire Magazine's 2014 Movie Preview Issue. Check out the article by Olly Richards:
When you're appearing alongside the most famous actress in the world right now, it's hard to steal much glory for yourself, but in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire both Sam Claflin and Jena Malone managed to wrestle just a little limelight from Jennifer Lawrence to become the sequel's breakout stars. And without warning to spoil anything, both are about to become even more significant in the final two films, in very different ways. Not that any of this is quite registering with Claflin, who plays the studly Finnick Odair, just yet.
"I'm still surprised they've picked me," he says, with a very British self-deprecation that is likely to serve him well in America. "Every time I see Francis I'm convinced he's not going to know who I am... I mean, I'm not the Finnick in the book. I've got brown hair, a beard, I'm a bit overweight, not 24 and I'm not seven foot... I was fully ready for the fans to hate me!"
Claflin has had a good warm-up to becoming a household name. After the old actorly cliche of a burgeoning football career truncated by injury, he slipped fairly easily into the romantic role in Snow White and The Huntsman, before The Hunger Games came calling. "It is weird that all those films are big, but I've done very little things that nobody's seen too," he says, absolutely determined that he not at any point celebrate his own achievements. "And honestly, nobody's recognizing me. Maybe it's because Finnick always has his top off. I've not been walking round much with my top off."
Mockingjay will see less nudity and more neurosis from Finnick. "I'm honestly so scared about saying anything at all, even though, as you say, the books are out there," say Claflin. "But you see more of Finnick. No, not like THAT. More of his reasons for being how he is. Oh, you know what I mean!"
Unlike Claflin, Jena Malone has had almost two decades of being recognized, starting her acting career at the age of 11 and working consistently since in everything from Stepmom to Donnie Darko to Sucker Punch. But more often than not she's been the good, sweet girl - something her Hunger Games incarnation, Johanna Mason, would find deeply off-putting.
Read more after the jump!
Jena Malone is Foam magazine's February cover girl. In the issue, which hits newsstands on January 14th, Malone talks about her passion for photography and music, her start in the business and how she maintains a level head in Hollywood.
All Photos by Andrew Stiles for FOAMUPDATE: Photos and Article from Jena Malone's February Foam Magazine Cover IssueIf Hollywood were high school—and let’s face it, it pretty much is—Jena Malone would be the cool, artsy chick who marches to the blissed-out beat of her own drum. Off the red carpet, the 29-year-old actress eschews fancy designer labels in favor of $15 Etsy finds. And in her free time, she’s apt to be shooting dreamy photographs or tinkering around on The Shoe, a zany-looking instrument she jerry-rigged out of an old steamer trunk.
See the rest of the article and photos after the jump!
Jena Malone attended the (get ready, it's a mouthful) 'The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug' Expansion Pack Kabam Mobile Game Launch Party last night in Hollywood. OK, so she was at a party to launch an expansion pack for a mobile game for the new Hobbit movie. Whatever - it's Jena!
Jena Malone in Un-Titled Project. Photos by Magdalena Wosinska Jena Malone was recently featured in Un-Titled Project Magazine's Issue #6. In addition to a great article on Jena and some beautiful photos by Magdalena Wosinska, the magazine also features a very special portfolio of "stolen images she collected while filming Catching Fire last winter in Atlanta. and Hawaii. "We were not allowed to take photos on set, so I had to be a bit of a thief sometimes."
Jena on set as Johanna. Photo by Jena Malone
The Capitol theatre - built on a soundstage. Photo by Jena Malone
Various Capitol Wigs. Photo by Jena MaloneTL: Are you excited about The Hunger Games: Catching Fire?
JM: I’m beyond excited. I just saw it recently, and it’s such a great film! I always worry about sequels, but the director Francis Lawrence just knocked it out of the park. I was on the edge of my seat! I kept thinking, "this is such a good movie!" I’m just so proud to be a part of it, and the character I play, Johanna Mason, is so fun, with so many layers, and so many things to challenge myself with. Even if this character was in some small, low-budget film, I think I would have fought just as hard to get the part because she’s just so interesting.
READ MORE of the article and see more photos after the jump!
To see the full article and all the photos, you can buy the magazine or download the PDF for 1.99 at Un-titledproject.com.
Jena Malone is featured in this week's Entertainment Weekly. Check out why she almost quit acting and how she feels about her Catching Fire alter-ego, Johanna Mason.
From EW:
Of all the terrifying things in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire - the jabberjays, the monkey mutts, Stanley Tucci's maniacal game-show-host grin - none are a match for Jena Malone. From the moment she steps on screen, defiantly stripping down in an elevator, the 29-year-old actress brings a feral intensity to Johanna Mason, a former victor dragged back into another death match alongside hero Katniss Everdeen.
"Once Jena auditioned, it was over," says franchise producer Nina Jacobson. "Jena has this quality where you don't want to be enemies with her, but at the same time you couldn't ask for anybody more fierce on your side." Her performance throbs with aggression. "Jena," says director Francis Lawrence, "was born to play somebody like Johanna."
Thanks to Catching Fire, Malone is finally enjoying a spotlight that's eluded her for close to two decades. She made her moving debut in 1996's Bastard Out of Carolina and has been a reliable supporting player ever since. In films like Stepmom, Donnie Darko, and Into The Wild, she showed a raw vulnerability at once deep and slightly dangerous. When Zack Snyder cast her in 2011's Sucker Punch, she seemed poised to break into more mainstream work. But the splashy girl-power flick flopped hard, and Malone's phone again went silent. "I was so primed for more, and then there were no parts," she says. " I was going to quit acting."
Instead of walking away for good, she took camping trips to Big Sur. And she threw herself into photography and her two-person electro-folk band The Shoe (with Lem Jay Ignacio), jerry-rigging an elaborate instrument out of an old trunk. "We used to just go and play on street corners with my generator," she says. "It's all just freestyle-based like Townes Van Zant or Tom Waits."
Malone had mostly give up reading scripts when she was approached about playing a ruthless Kentucky girl in the Kevin Costner TV miniseries Hatfields & McCoys. "She was like the Lady Macbeth of the West," Malone says of her character. "And I thought, 'Huh, I feel like I can really get into this [character's] physical body.' I think it was Hatfields that got me Catching Fire because I'd never played such an evil, feisty girl before. I've played dark girls with problems, bit most of them were innocent to their own destructive patterns." It's that lack of innocence that makes her Johanna Mason so wonderfully ferocious. And the actress is thrilled to have the chance to inspire Catching Fire's teenage-girl fan base to embrace their own power. "Why do I want to model fearlessness for? It's 14-15 year old girls. They're the true revolutionaries."
In it's $158.1 million opening weekend alone, Catching Fire made more than Malone's past 10 years' worth of movies. (The film has since earned $572.8 million worldwide.) She is well aware of the gift of exposure. "I could make the most incredible cake in the world, but if only my friends eat it, only my friends are going to know I'm a good baker," she says. "So hell, yes, this is a giant, massive moment." She's hoping the attention might jump-start a biopic of writer Carson McCullers: she's long been attached to star in the project, but it ha struggled to find financing. Meanwhile, on Dec. 2 she gratefully reported to the set of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.
"I love this character. I would play her in an after school special."
Jena Malone stopped by Chelsea Lately and LIVE! With Kelly and Michael on 11/27, and recounted maintaining her modesty while stripping in a public elevator for The Hunger Games: Catching Fire:
