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Real Or Not Real?

Mia Wasikowska & Zoe Aggeliki Up For Important Role In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

by Jill Pantozzi | 12:55 pm, June 23rd, 2012


Not too long ago, The Hunger Games: Catching Fire producer Nina Jacobson told us we should probably relax about all these casting rumors we’ve been hearing (mainly the men up for the role of Finnick). Sorry lady, we’re fans. We don’t relax. The latest news is that Mia Wasikowska and Zoe Aggeliki are up for the same role. Find out who it is after the jump! 

The Playlist cites anonymous sources claiming Wasikowska and Aggeliki are up for the role of Johanna Mason. Wasikowska you probably member from her work in The Kids Are All Right and Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland but Mason is fairly new. She’s done modeling in the past but has just wrapped a role in the Ryan Reynold-starring R.I.P.D.

“Both actresses have been in discussions for the part, and we hear that Aggeliki could sign in the coming days, but nothing is certain just yet,” writes The Playlist.

Johanna Mason is described in the novels as being muscular, having wide-set brown eyes, spikey brown hair, and a tan. I won’t go into detail of her role in the plot but she plays a fairly important part in the story

Jacobson has said it’s crazy to see how way ahead fans are. “We’ve not narrowed things down by any means. It’s funny to see how things can take on a life of their own,” she said. “It means something that people can see [an actor] in that light, so you know [the actor] will be accepted by a lot of people, on the one hand. On the other hand, you have to kind of ignore it. You have to just sort of act like you’re sitting in a room and you want to just pick the person who gives the best audition and looks and feels most like the part.”

But we’ve also heard recently that Philip Seymour Hoffman may be taking on the role of Plutarch Heavensbee (which I sincerely hope is true).

Could you see either of these two in the role?

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  • Terence Ng

    I had assumed Johanna was a person of color, but that’s partially because I was simultaneously falling in love with Joanna Cargill (Frenzy) after she joins the X-Men. Both are pretty badass Johanna/Joanna’s regardless.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_QZTQORZOGI4B6DQOTEJPF6RROE K@

     I even thought maybe almost middle eastern or Indian, native American even. Slightly exotic, I’d even take like a pacific islander kind of vibe… never thought of her as a white girl with a good tan…

  • Anonymous

    In my mind, I also pictured Johanna with light brown skin. Like a Pacific Islander or Latina. I just naturally assumed Panem is a very mixed-raced future!

  • julia051

    Me too. In fact, I pictured her pretty much exactly like Chel from “Road to El Dorado.” I guess I had animated movies on the brain when I first read the book.

  • http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=511753471 Megan Zagorski

    Ruth Negga or bust, tbh.

  • http://www.facebook.com/raniedaysandnights Ranie Michele Carver

    I personally don’t care for the casting selections.Which is sad,I love Johanna. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/5ZXIEGCAFZ4F7LBI6QTTN3YJCY Ashe

    If the Hunger Games casting has taught us anything, it’s that tans are the most ambiguous skintone out there. So ambiguous they’re always white.

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  • Life Lessons

    Hmm…. I think they need a bigger, as in muscular and body-size, actress. I’m kinda tired of skinny women getting roles for women who well, look like they are older than 13. I like both actresses, I just think that they should look at other choices too. 

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/FZKJAFF2BOMAZ5KAXVIPNHTANU Tiffany

    I actually really like Mia as a choice. 

    People keep forgetting that Johanna, during her Hunger Games, deceived everyone with her INNOCENT, WEAK persona, when in actuality she was anything but. I feel like Mia is exactly that. She has that doe-eyed, sweet-girl look, but inside she is a fighting actress. I want her to surprise everyone like Johanna did. 

  • http://twitter.com/tiinasol Tina

    Awww, I’m sure these actresses are great and all but I pictured Naya Rivera as Johanna and I sincerely hope she’s at least in the race.

  • http://nmlop.tumblr.com/ nmlop

    I get what you’re trying to say about the pervasiveness of a particular type of women’s body in Hollywood and popular media, but do you think you would rephrase it so that it doesn’t suggest that those of us with naturally small frames look like children? We look like adult women by the very fact that we are adult women.

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