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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.
The Mockingjay cast is making their way to Berlin to continue filming. Wes Chatham (Castor) tweeted a photo of himself alongside cast members Evan Ross (Messalla) and Elden Henson (Pollux) this morning with the caption, "Three Amigos landed in Berlin and up to no good."
Patina Miller (Paylor) also tweeted that she was headed to Berlin today.
Jennifer Lawrence was reportedly heading to Berlin this morning but only via unconfirmed twitter rumors and you know how THAT goes. We'll find out soon enough the way the paparazzi hounds Jennifer!
Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images EuropeThe Mockingjay madness has begun at the 2014 Cannes film festival. Cast members Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson (yay), Liam Hemsworth, Sam Claflin, Julianne Moore, Donald Sutherland, director Francis Lawrence, Producers Nina Jacobson and Jon Kilik, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Rob Friedman and Lionsgate President of Production Erik Feig attended The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 photocall at the 67th Annual Cannes Film Festival.
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Photo by Ian Gavan/Getty Images EuropeThe cast even plays the circle game at Cannes! Look out, Donald!
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It's official! Eugenie Bondurant has been cast as Tigris in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2. In the book, Tigris was once a reknown stylist in the Hunger Games and is now a shopkeeper selling fur-lined clothes in a small shop in the Capitol. Her appearance has been surgically altered to resemble a feline. The response to Eugenie's casting has been overwhelmingly postitive and we can't wait to see how they bring this character to life in the film.
Lionsgate announced today that Michelle Forbes has been cast as Lt. Jackson in Mockingjay Part 2. This casting has been rumored for a few weeks so it's good to get the confirmation.
Forbes has done tons of tv work. You may recognize her from True Blood, The Killing, Chicago Fire and Orphan Black among others.
For those a little rusty on their Mockingjay (time to re-read!) Jackson is a soldier from District 13 and Boggs' second in command. She's a member of Star Squad who is an ace sharpshooter and she's also the one who comes up with the "real or not real" game to help Peeta.
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Jena captioned this #musingsontheseine. From her instagramLooks like the Mockingjay cast have made their way to Paris to shoot the final installments of the The Hunger Games films. Jena Malone, Stef Dawson, Meta Golding and Wes Chatham have posted Parisian updates to social media and Josh Hutcherson was snapped with a fan on the streets of Paris. Liam Hemsworth, Evan Ross, Elden Henson and Chatham were spotted in the airport in Paris together yesterday.
From Stef Dawson's instagram
Stef and Meta at the Eiffel Tower. From Meta's instagram
If you'd like to follow Jena, Stef and Meta on instagram and Wes on twitter, click the images and head over to their socials.
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Natalie Dormer is featured in the upcoming June issue of Glamour magazine. She talks about her roles in Mockingjay and Game of Thrones and, of course, the hair thing.
"It’s fascinating how much of our sense of attractiveness and feminine identity is bound up in our hair. But in the Mockingjay novel, Cressida is described as having a shaved head and a vine tattoo, and I wanted to do right by the book."
So how'd she feel about the dramatic cut? "Peculiar at first, but then you take a deep breath and keep everything in perspective, " she says. "It just takes some time to get used to. My fiance (writer and director Anthony Byrne) has very short, spiky hair, and I think a lot of women like the sensation of rubbing their fingers over quite short, shaved hair. I certainly do. But I've normally done that with the men in my life - not on the side of my own head! A lot of my friends ask to touch my head, I just stand there and get stroked for five minutes - it’s a free massage!" And when it comes down to it, Dormer is a no B. S. woman:
"Cutting one side of your head for a few months is not a big deal compared with what other people have to deal with in the world. Plus, hair grows back."
One of the unexpected side effects of her wild hair is a wilder fashion sense. "When half of your head is shaved, you can play more. I think sometimes people are scared of the critique. I get it - it’s terrifying when images go online within half an hour. But passing judgement on someone else is a reflection of your own insecurities. We all make mistakes. We all have a fashion faux pas, choose the wrong script, write the wrong song. But it’s only by taking chances and occasionally getting it wrong that we grow."
Natalie plays "Game of Groans" with Glamour:
See the scans at FashionScansRemastered.net
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Remember back in December when the big Mockingjay casting announcement came out: Robert Knepper is Antonius! And we all went, "Whaaaaa???? Whoooooo??" We eventually found out Antonius is President Snow's Minister, a small part created for the films but not in the books. Turns out the actor playing him is still a little clueless as to who Antonius is. He spoke to MTV News about his mystery character:
"I don't even know yet!" Knepper said laughing. "I know what I read for. I read, this was last summer... This is a huge movie. This is a huge two movies, and I know that what I got is not what I'll end up doing, they're so secretive about this."
For roles in blockbusters like Hunger Games, this is pretty typical: an actor will audition for a role reading "sides," short pieces of script that give the sense of the character while not actually being from the movie's script itself. This is done not just to prevent leaks and spoilers, but also because a character as they appear in the movie may have minimal dialogue that doesn't suggest everything a casting director needs to see in an audition.
Knepper did get the part, though, and will be heading to Paris in April to shoot his segment of the mega-franchise. Hopefully by then he'll have a better idea of what to expect.
"You're going to find out when I find out," Knepper continued. "Well, I'll find out a little bit sooner than you, but I still haven't found out for sure!"
In a bit of Mockingjay mystery casting, it was just announced that Robert Knepper would be joining the cast of Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2 as Antonius. The mystery: there is no Antonius in Mockingjay!
UPDATE: We've confirmed with Lionsgate that Antonius has been added to Mockingjay as a new minor character created for the film. He'll be President Snow's Minister.
Knepper is probably best known for Prison Break, but has been in a million things and is currently on the new TNT show, Mob City.
It's official: Omid Abtahi has been cast as Homes, a member of the District 13 military and one who joins Katniss and Peeta on the Star Squad! He has been most recently seen in the television drama series Revolution. Kismet?! 
It's official! Lily Rabe has been cast as Commander Lyme in Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2. Probably best known for her roles in seasons 1 and 2 of American Horror Story, Rabe is also the daughter of the late actress Jill Clayburgh and Tony Award-winning playwright and screenwriter David Rabe.
If you need a little Mockingjay refresher course, Commander Lyme is a former Victor from District 2 who leads the rebellion in D2. From Mockingjay:
"The commander from 2, a middle aged woman named Lyme. She’s memorable enough, standing over six feet tall and heavily muscled. But it’s only when I see a clip of her in the field, leading a raid on the main entrance of the Nut, that something clicks and I realize I’m in the presence of another victor."
It's FINALLY official! Rumors have been swirling about Julianne Moore as Coin since well before San Diego Comic Con. We fansites even weighed in on her potential as Coin in the series, Campaigning For Coin (fyi, we LOVED the idea). It's true - Julianne Moore is your President Coin in Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2!
Julianne Moore is an award winning actress best known for her varied work in films such as The Kids Are All Right, The Big Lebowski, Magnolia, and Boogie Nights. She recently won an Emmy Award for her turn as Sarah Palin in Game Change.
She’s worked with Josh Hutcherson in The Kids Are All Right, Woody Harrelson in Game Change, and Philip Seymour Hoffman in The Big Lebowski, Boogie Nights, and Magnolia. And her upcoming film Seventh Son ALMOST had her working with both Jennifer Lawrence (she bowed out) and Sam Claflin (he auditioned for the lead).
Stef Dawson spoke with her hometown Australian paper Canberra Times about her new role as Annie Cresta in Mockingjay Parts 1&2:
Being part of The Hunger Games phenomenon produces instant results - earlier this week former Canberra girl Stef Dawson had about 100 followers on Twitter, when news broke she had been cast in the latest movies, that number exploded to more than 5000, and counting.
"I think it’s going to be a wild ride,’’ she said, from Los Angeles.
The former Canberra Girls Grammar School and Radford College student auditioned only three weeks ago for the part of Annie Cresta in the upcoming The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2 films.
“I did one audition and that was enough. Apparently, they were blown away, they didn’t have to see any more,” she said.
