Why Jennifer Lawrence and Jena Malone filmed nude ‘Hunger Games’ scene separately

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“Hunger Games” star Jena Malone revealed Monday that she and Jennifer Lawrence were forced to film a scene for the film’s sequel, “Catching Fire,” separately due to Lawrence, 33, feeling under the weather. “The scenes that are fun are never fun to do — Jen was sick that day, so I ended up doing it without Jen, and so there wasn’t a lot of people in the elevator,” Malone, 38, told Variety during the premiere of “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.” “So I think we were just winging it and trying to get as much as we could get, because it was [shot] in a real hotel,” the “Donnie Darko” actress added. “That’s the magic of filmmaking, is you only need a few seconds to really create something that lasts.”In the memorable scene, Johanna Mason (Malone) takes the elevator with Everdeen (Lawrence), Peeta Mellark (Josh Hutcherson) and Haymitch Abernathy (Woody Harrelson), and boldly declares that her “stylist is such an idiot” as she begins to strip naked. “District 7, lumber, trees.

I’d love to put my ax on her face. So what do you think, now that the whole world wants to sleep with you,” Mason adds, after asking Mellark to unzip her dress.

Before sauntering off the elevator, she quips: “Thanks, let’s do it again sometime.”Malone continued to portray the brash character in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 1” (2014) and “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2” (2015).According to Malone, she is excited to see the prequel film with “fresh eyes” since she never read the book the upcoming movie is based on. “I’m gonna go in with fresh eyes and see what they have to say,” Malone explained to People on Monday.