Julianne Moore’s children helped her get excited to play President Alma Coin in “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1.”
The actress spoke to More magazine (via The New York Daily News) about her role in the upcoming film. Moore explained her children Caleb and Liv were the ones who brought “The Hunger Games” franchise to her attention.
“My son was in line for the midnight show when ‘The Hunger Games ‘first came out. They both loved the books. For them, my being in ‘Mockingjay’ was fairly meaningful,” Moore said.
The actress also appreciated being able to work with her friend Philip Seymour Hoffman on the “Mockingjay” films before her passed away. Hoffman, 46, died of an accidental drug overdose back in February.
“It was a terrible, ridiculous, untimely loss,” the actress told More magazine. “It’s difficult because I’m not sure how his family wants to deal with all this. It’s not my place.
“But I can talk about him as a colleague,” she added. “He was an extraordinary talent and a lovely human being.”
Moore gave a behind-the-scenes interview with “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1” back in May. She explained why she wanted to play Coin and most of it had to do with not being able to see the character outside of Katniss Everdeen’s perspective.
"I've read all the books all the way through and I'm like, 'I want to be in this movie.' Clearly [Coin] was the only part I could play. Coin is very sparingly drawn because you don't know who she is because she's only spoken about through Katniss' point of view,” Moore said.
“And Katniss immediately distrusts her in the way sometimes a young person will distrust an older person whose not familiar to them or in position of authority. So [the director] and I talked about it a lot, about how do we communicate Coin's wholeness as a person. I think Katniss's response to her is very well drawn, but you don't know who Coin is."
