It’s crazy what a few poisonous berries can do.
But the war against the Capitol was only just beginning.
So without further ado: 2009’sCatching Fire.
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“She didn’t tell us very much going into it,” he tells EW.
We knew it was the Quarter Quell so we assumed that there would be another Hunger Games in it.
But honestly, we didn’t really know everything that was in it until it began."
But really she stuck to her vision pretty, pretty well."
“And we would talk about, ‘Can we actually see this scene?’
That came into play in a major way as the central love triangle heated up inCatching Fire.
And Katniss reacts and then it moves on.
I immediately was like, ‘Wait what?
She kissed Gale?!
That’s a big deal, we need to see that!'”
I mean, clearly talking to her, Peeta was going to win.
But I was not necessarily like, ‘No, Gale should win!’
He breaks off into a laugh before continuing.
“This scene exists because of this conversation we had,” he says.
“I just thought that she was really fascinating in her rage and in her not holding back.
Are they not on the same side?
Is there something Katniss can learn from her?
She was definitely the one who intrigued me the most.”
“It’s just about survival and them throwing things her way.
The Capitol has upped the stakes significantly here.
There is an even more insidious method to the madness.”
“I was like, ‘Where is book three?!’
It’s not fun to wait a year,” he says.
“I am genuinely jealous of people today who can read all three books in a row.
They don’t have to wait a year between them.
You have no idea how hard that was to wait!
She had a very effective cliffhanger.”
And you don’t have to wait a year either.
Stay tuned for EW’s final binge-read retrospective as Levithan looks back on 2010’s franchise-endingMockingjaynext week.
