The Hunger Games: Catching Fire cast members Sam Claflin, Jennifer Lawrence, Liam Hemsworth and director Francis Lawrenc eattended the ‘Jimmy P. (Psychotherapy Of A Plains Indian)’ Premiere during the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival at the Palais des Festivals on May 18, 2013 in Cannes, France.

 As always, Jen looked striking in her Christian Dior dress.

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Lionsgate celebrates THE HUNGER GAMES: CATCHING FIRE at the 2013 Cannes Film Festival. Producer Jon Kilik, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Patrick Wachsberger, cast Liam Hemsworth, Jennifer Lawrence and Sam Claflin, Director Francis Lawrence, Lionsgate Motion Picture Group Co-Chairman Robert Friedman and Producer Nina Jacobson attended the event.

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Toby Jones praised his ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’ co-star Jennifer Lawrence and director Francis Lawrence in a recent interview with Bang Showbiz.

On Jennifer Lawrence:

”I was at the Golden Globes last weekend and I watched her get her award for ‘Silver Linings Playbook’, and I worked with her on a film called ‘Serena’ that’s coming out this year. She is remarkable. It’s not that she’s uber-confident, or uber-flashy or arrogant, she’s just an incredibly straightforward person.

”All of this [red carpet events] may seem natural for you [journalists], but it doesn’t feel natural foractors. She handles it all with such an ease. She has some of that on screen. I’m a huge admirer of her.”

on Director Francis Lawrence:

”I would say that it’s got a different director with different sensibility. I think he’ll want to bring his own mark to it. It’s clichéd, but you want to respect the books that have been very successful but bring it on a bit.”

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As part of MTV News’ preview of this year’s hottest movies, MTV interviewed Director Francis  Lawrence about casting Finnick Odair and directing The Hunger Games: Catching Fire.

On filling Director Gary Ross’ shoes

“I liked what Gary did a lot, but I have a different style than he does,” Lawrence explained. “So it was very easy for me to come in the room and sit down with the people involved in the movie and sort of say, ‘Here’s what I like about what Gary did that I would latch on to and hold onto and embrace, and here’s the way I would do it differently.’ The trickier thing, honestly for me, was sort of stepping into a world, and there’s crew members that were on the first movie, obviously an entire cast, all the people that are returning that I inherited. I was nervous about what they were going to feel… I think everybody in general was really gracious and worked really hard and ended up being really fun to work with. I think there were a couple of people that were really bummed that Gary wasn’t doing it, and it had less to do with the choice of me coming on than just Gary not doing it. They signed on with Gary; they’re friends with Gary; they like Gary. And I think there was definitely some sadness there.”

On Casting Sam Claflin to play Finnick Odair

“[Claflin] is very athletic, which is great. He’s in great shape. He’s very charismatic,” Lawrence said. “But I was also looking in the long term. There’s kind of a rouge-like quality to him in this book. And long term, he’s actually an emotional character and a very loyal character and a character who’s in love; a character who experienced quite a lot of sadness. And he was really able to tap into that, as well as being really charming and sexy and handsome as hell.”

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