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And All Was Right With the World

You May Breathe Easy – Robert Pattinson Says He Won’t Be Playing Finnick In The Hunger Games: Catching Fire

by Jill Pantozzi | 4:00 pm, May 28th, 2012


Last week we freaked a bunch of you out over the mere notion that Twilight star Robert Pattinson might take on the role of Finnick Odair in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. Those of you who were squarly against the idea can now relax, Pattinson himself has told the press he is not up for the role, and quite possibly offended that he wouldn’t even be considered. Also, Kristen Stewart and Jennifer Lawrence may be up for the same role. Prepare to hear that overly dramatized for the next few months… 

Pattinson did an interview with USA Today in which he mentioned waking up the morning after the Cannes Film Festival premiere of his new film Cosmopolis and seeing the news of him being considered for the Catching Fire role. And having heard nothing else on the subject, thought it might be true.

“I woke up this morning and saw all these things about me being cast in The Hunger Games,” Pattinson told the paper. “I was kind of curious for a second. So I called my agent.”

Finnick is the extremely popular and attractive District 4 competitor in the games who’s described as tall, muscular, athletic, with tan skin, bronze-colored hair, and sea green eyes. But fans were against Pattinson not only because they felt he didn’t physically fit the role, but mostly because they just didn’t like him or his Twilight connection. The hashtag #PattinsonisnotFinnick has been trending on Twitter all while the actor received a standing ovation at Cannes.

Pattinson checked in with his agent that day to see if the Catching Fire rumors had any truth to them and his response was an unequivocal “no.”

“(My agent) was like no one’s going to offer you that part,” Pattinson said while laughing. “I was like, thanks for the reassurance.”

Pattinson didn’t actually say whether he wanted the role or not but at least he didn’t find the notion as ridiculous as most of the public.

Meanwhile, Pattinson’s Twilight co-star and girlfriend Stewart is vying for a role against The Hunger Games’ Lawrence. The role in question? Peyton Loftis in an adaptation of William Styron‘s book Lie Down in Darkness. It’s about a psychologically unstable woman and her dysfunctional Virginia family.

“I want to play Peyton more than anything I can possibly taste or touch in my life,” said Stewart recently in Elle Magazine.  Then, in W Magazine, Lawrence said, “I want to play her so bad. I am obsessed with that part. I have this feeling of protectiveness over characters I want to play… If someone else gets the part, I’m afraid they won’t do it right.”

This…is going to get nasty in the press and watch, neither of them will wind up getting it.

(via The Hollywood Reporter, Jezebel)

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  • http://cosplaylibrarian.blogspot.com/ Katy Squiggles

    Having never seen Twilight, I wouldn’t have minded him as Finnick but now I’ll be curious to see who they get to play him.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jocelynplease Jocelyn Dugan

    Lame, I thought he fit the role physically. They’ll probably get some pretty boy who can’t actually carry his weight- Pattinson is not a horrible actor. As for K. Stew vs. Lawrence, I’m more pro-Lawrence. I like Kristen, but I don’t think she has the chops for such a part. She’s branched out more, but she’s never impressed me.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_R7GVNIKWG3S2UTHEQOMSZXT4M4 Anna B

    I harbor no hate for Pattinson or Stewart, and it always kind of bothers me when people get pissed at an actor because it’s the popular thing to hate whatever franchise they’re in, but whatever.

    That said, I might have given Pattinson a chance as Finnick, but I’ve kind of gotten attached to the idea that Jesse Williams might play him.

  • http://wolfsilveroak.insanejournal.com/ Wolf

    If they’re smart, they’ll stick with the same actors/actresses from The Hunger Games, ie, Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss, in the next 2 movies.

    And yeah, no, I can’t see Pattinson as Finnick.

  • http://www.thenerdybird.com/ Jill Pantozzi

    They already are.

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

    That’s a relief.

    Now for Zac Efron to be considered for the part, and a big outcry to flood the e-gates until he publishes a news story going “LOL HUH”.

  • Xandra Dust

    Personally, I don’t think it’s that out there for him to play Finnick. He could probably pick up the attention loving jerk/loyal friend and lover, it’s just that it’d be nice to someone who fits the physical part of Finnick as well, because an important part of this character is his appearance. I’m not really worried about them finding someone for the role though, they seem able to find someone who fits the role physically and mentally as well. As for Lawrence and Stewart, I’d rather Lawrence get the part, but I’m partly biased because I just don’t like Stewart. I never really thought of her as a person who can really effect you with her acting. She doesn’t put enough emotion to really personify an unstable woman.

  • http://profile.yahoo.com/KGPKSBUXJSIFIGY4NHYRSG27DM Shania

    …I’m actually dissapointed about this news. Although, this has inspired a wonderful game of worse-case scenario. XD

  • Frodo Baggins

    Yeah, no kidding. The guy’s not stupid.

  • http://morethansides.wordpress.com/ PharaohKatt

    The hate heaped on Pattison and Stewart really bothers me. They’re actors doing their jobs. Just because Twilight is shit that doesn’t mean they are. FTR, Stewart in The Runaways was fantastic.

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