The Famished Diversion Trilogy
Jun. 11th, 2011 02:33 pmWait, my bad ... I mean, The Hunger Games Trilogy

( Queen Katniss invites you to sit and enjoy her fierceness )

( Queen Katniss invites you to sit and enjoy her fierceness )
The controversy over Jennifer Lawrence being cast as Katniss in Hunger Games is confusing the hell out of me. Basically, people are saying that casting blonde, blue-eyed Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen is Hollywood white-washing at work, but I don't get it.
In the novel Katniss is described as having dark hair, grey-eyes and olive skin, while her mother and sister are described as grey-eyed, blonde's. The family sounds fairly caucasian to me. From the vague descriptions in the book it's impossible to tell what exact ethnicity Katniss is, but I think it's safe to say that she's not black, brown, asian or aboriginal, so the rage and indignance that is going on right now about the character being "white-washed" is so confusing to me.