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Francis Lawrence Describes the Legacy of "The Hunger Games"_ by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 24, 2015 1:36 PM UTC  Jennifer Lawrence covers EW Jennifer Lawrence covers EW Photo Courtesy of Entertainment Weekly by [Maya Rhodan](https://time.com/author/maya-rhodan/) ## Maya Rhodan Nov 24, 2015 1:36 PM UTC Twenty-five-year-old Oscar winner Jennifer Lawrence can add [_Entertainment Weekly_‘s Entertainer of the Year](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/24/ew-entertainer-year-jennifer-lawrence) to her ever-growing list of accolades. The past 12 months have been a roller coaster for the star; she started the year at the center of the hack on Sony executives’ emails and is closing it out with the final installment of the beloved _Hunger Games_ series. The final installment of the Hunger Games, _Mockingjay Pt. 2_, was released last week to the series’ [lowest opening weekend box office performance](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/22/box-office-report-hunger-games-mockingjay-part-2-night-secret-their-eyes). Lawrence, who has held the franchise’s starring role since it opened in 2012, tells the magazine that she’s accepted the fact that her time as Katniss Everdeen is coming to an end. “It does feel over. It didn’t for a while and I didn’t think it would ever sink in, but it has now,” she says. “It feels over. And that’s okay. It’s okay to move on.” Read more at [EW](http://www.ew.com/article/2015/11/24/ew-entertainer-year-jennifer-lawrence). ## Transcript [00:00] [ MUSIC ] [00:02] Living and kind of breathing the Hunger Games world for [00:05] three and a half years and never leaving it, was [00:10] great. You sort of never break away for your entire life for [00:13] that period of time. [ MUSIC ] If you end All of this. [00:14] [ MUSIC ] All of those deaths. [ MUSIC ] They mean [00:24] something. I don't worry if the movies are too dark for kids. I [00:28] think part of the reason that that series is success and that [00:31] the books were a success, is that the author decided to [00:34] write stories about the consequence of war, and the [00:37] consequence of violence. For teenagers. But treated them [00:40] with respect and didn't flinch. And I think they appreciated [00:43] that and they understand that. Freedom. Freedom. [00:46] Freedom. You'd have these protests in Thailand [00:51] and the kids started using the three- finger salute and [00:53] suddenly that salute becomes illegal and suddenly people [00:55] are getting arrested. And real life starts mirroring [01:00] the movie. And of course, the movie is just sort of reflecting [01:05] history. It's quite moving. [ MUSIC ] [01:09] His last movie hasn't even come out [01:13] yet. So to think about it having a legacy Is [01:18] odd already because I'm just still to close to it. I do know [01:22] that it has a very passionate fan base that has kind of [01:25] grown up and matured over the course of the five years [01:28] that these movies have been coming out, and for what? [01:30] Maybe eight years that the books have been out. [01:32] [ INAUDIBLE ] [01:36] So you've got kids that were Pre- teens that started reading [01:39] these things, that are in college. So who knows in 20 [01:43] years, when they're married, they've got kids, or maybe it's [01:46] a little longer than that, they feel it's time to show their kids. [01:49] Ideally these become movies that people sort of wanna [01:53] pass down and show again. And that holds sort of a special [01:57] place in their hearts, in terms of cinema for them. [02:02] [ MUSIC ] [02:04] I'm going to kill Snow. I don't wanna spoil too much for [02:08] people who haven't seen the movie, but I definitely Think [02:10] that there is optimism in the movie, and it was something [02:13] that we really strove for. I will also say that I don't think it's [02:16] squeaky clean. I mean, there's not a nice little pretty bow [02:19] on the end of this movie, and I don't think when dealing [02:22] with these kinds of themes and ideas You can, it would just [02:25] be false, it wouldn't feel honest. And so we tried to make [02:29] the most honest ending possible. 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