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Key Takeaways
- Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson, who play characters from District 12, both have Appalachian roots.
- This connection is presented as a case of life imitating art, linking the actors to their roles.
- Ancestry researched the pasts of other actors in Catching Fire to see where their roots might lie.
We all know that Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark come from District 12. But how’s this for a case of life imitating art: So do the stars who play them. Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson both have Appalachian roots.
To get you ready for installment two of the Hunger Games trilogy, we looked into the pasts of some of the other actors in Catching Fire (along with author Suzanne Collins) to see where their roots might lie in one possible version of Panem.
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