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Omid Abtahi (he plays Homes in Mockingjay) posted a great picture to his twitter today. He and Natalie Dormer (Cressida), Michelle Forbes (Jackson) and Mahershala Ali (Boggs) from the Mockingjay cast giving the Hunger Games 3 finger salute with the caption, "Getting close to the end. This has been fun. #mockingjay"
Photo courtesy @AbtahiOmid on twitterYou can follow Omid on twitter at @AbtahiOmid.
Jennifer Lawrence spilled a big spoiler about the last scene she shot for Mockingjay at the X-Men: Days of Future Past premiere on May 10th in New York. I KNOW you've read the books but I have to warn you anyway (hilarious)*SPOILERS* ahead:
Mahershala Ali (Boggs) spoke with Vulture about his current role as Remy Danton on House of Cards, and they also managed to sneak in a couple of questions about Mockingjay.
You’re also in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. Does Jennifer Lawrence fall down a lot on set?
[Laughs.] No, she stays on her feet on set, unless it’s written that she falls down. And I’d have to say that, out of everyone, she’s the coolest.
Can you talk at all about the rewrites that had to happen after Philip Seymour Hoffman died?
There’s one scene in particular that he really has to be in, and I think they’re going to address that with new technology that’s available to them now. But other than that, he’d already shot a lot of the stuff in part one and some key scenes in part two. He just was really wonderful to work with. Such an education coming to work and seeing him break down scenes and make suggestions and just raise the bar — like, take something that is almost a throwaway line and make it into something that is so much more important than what it was even intended to be. I’ve never seen anyone — and I’ve had the opportunity to work with some really terrific actors in my time — but Philip Seymour Hoffman is definitely the best I ever had the opportunity to work with.
Read the article at Vulture.com
It's official, tributes - we've got our Boggs! Mahershala Ali has just been cast as Boggs in Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2! Ali is probably best known for his work in the television show The 4400, his many guest staring roles on tv, and from the movie The Curious Case of Benjamin Button.
For those of you a little rusty on your Mockingjay, Boggs is a rebel soldier and is introduced as President Coin’s right-hand lackey but soon becomes Katniss’ protector. He also delivers one of the most memorable lines in the trilogy, “Well, don’t expect us to be too impressed. We just saw Finnick Odair in his underwear.” After which Katniss thinks to herself, “I decide to go ahead and like Boggs.”
Yeah, he's got this!
