It can't be all victory tours and dessert buffets for "The Hunger Games": The film has some critics making controversial statements aboutstar Jennifer Lawrence -- specifically regarding her weight.
The film tells of a malnourished North American nation, Panem, underthe control of a sleek and excessive capitol city, with theparticipants in the annual fight-to-the-death Hunger Games depicted asskin-and-bones teenagers clawing for survival.
Some folks find that Lawrence looked a little too well-fed to play the bow-toting Katness Everdeen.
"A few years ago Ms. Lawrence might have looked hungry enough toplay Katniss, but now, at 21, her seductive, womanly figure makes a badfit for a dystopian fantasy about a people starved into submission," said Manohla Dargis of the New York Times.
A bold indictment, if you ask us, of a 21-year-old star whocurrently captivates the attention of impressionable young females andher same-aged peers in show business. But are the critical sentiments-- Vulture has a comprehensive roundup -- correct?
On the one hand, the content adapted from Suzanne Collins' darknovels dictates that these oppressed citizens are in fact emaciated.But by all standards Lawrence is hardly overweight, though widelyattributed with that dread celeb magazine buffer of "curvy."
Chew the fat on this "Hunger Games" debate in comments. And if you need some photographic evidence, check out how Lawrence killed it on the carpet at the Los Angeles "Hunger" premiere.
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