BRUSH WITH FAME

           Last weekend, I met one of the people who was in the Hunger Games.  She is a friend of my mom and she was in town.  My mom was going to go see her, and I was with her, so I got to meet a person who was an extra in three scenes!  She said she met three of the stars: Katniss's Mom (Paula Malcomson), Prim (Willow Shields), and Rue (Amandla Stenberg).  It was really cool to meet her.  She said they were at the Reaping (Shelby, North Carolina) for four days.  In the movie, she could be seen for four seconds walking in the direction of the camera in the Hob, in the square in the Capitol, and on the trading cards, when she is next to an African-American woman who is next to Katniss's mother.  Here are some pictures:
She's not easy to see in this picture, but look at the middle where you see a back of a woman who looks as if she is about to cross the left side of the aisle to the right side of the aisle and then look up and you see a woman walking toward the camera. That's her.
She is looking at Katniss's mom here. Look all the way to the left.

I interviewed her over email.  " I filmed 6 days total, 4 in district 12 and 2 in the Capitol," she told me.

 " My favorite scene was the hob because there were only a few of us extras (25-30) and we got to interact with the 2^nd director and the crew. We got to walk around and pretend to shop instead of just standing around. The four second scene took about 6 hours to film."

When I asked about the costumes, she said, "The clothes in the district were really from the 1930s and they were worn and thread-bare.  The shoes were the same.  The movie company brought the outfits from a costume shop in California.  It was over 100 degrees so I was very glad that I had a short sleeve dress.  Some ladies had sweaters and the men had jackets and coal mining suits, not to mention the peace keepers uniforms.  Some of the clothes in the Capital were made by the costume department but  I think mine just came from the Limited.  I wore a black tube skirt, a blue silk blouse and six inch high heels."

Because I had heard about how long it took to get the Capitol extras ready, I had to ask about it. "It was really quick to get ready for the district. We were not allowed to wear make-up, just sun screen and coal dust for the hob.  The capital took about 5 hours to get all of us through wardrobe, hair and make-up and then we filmed the scene through the night.  There were a lot of us for the parade scene but not as many as appear in the movie.  They copied and pasted the same group of people over and over," she replied.  I thought the interview was very interesting, and it was fun to see what being in a movie was really like.