'Hunger Games' Insider Details You Never Knew (Including the Scene Jennifer Lawrence 'Hated' & More)

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You can watch the Hunger Games movies countless times, but we bet that there is still a lot that you probably don’t know about what happened behind the scenes.

Starring Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson and Liam Hemsworth, the franchise tells its story across four movies.

The original run was so successful that it spawned a spinoff movie The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, which premiered in 2023.

Another newly announced spinoff, called Sunrise on the Reaping, was recently announced. It will arrive in theaters in 2026. We did some digging and rustled up facts from the franchise – including details about Jennifer‘s pay and the scene she hated to film, on-set injuries, roles that almost went to other actors and the moment that resulted in damage to a sacred site – that you probably weren’t aware of.