'Mockingjay Part 2' Panel At Comic Con 2015
Molly Thu, July 9, 2015 ;)
Mockingjay Part 2 invaded Comic Con 2015 with a much-anticipated final panel of The Hunger Games franchise on Thursday, July 9th. Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Willow Shields, Francis Lawrence and Nina Jacobson took to Hall H to share some behind the scenes stories and in-depth discussion of Mockingjay Part 2 in a panel moderated by Conan O'Brien.
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The full panel is below:
If you don't have time to watch the entire thing, here's a recap:
The presentation opened with white-suited drummers and the new Mockingjay Part 2 propo clip, "Stand With Us." A new Mockingjay Part 2 trailer was also shown. We won't get a look at that until later this month, but CinemaBlend has a full description if you can't wait that long! Spoilers abound, obviously!
"Tonight, turn your weapons to the Capitol. Tonight, turn your weapons to Snow!"
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Jennifer Lawrence's favorite moment as Katniss from the franchise (after struggling a bit) "I volunteer as tribute." Eventually, she said her favorite moment is from Mockingjay Part 2 and didn't want to give the audience a spoiler.
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Josh Hutcherson called Peeta's return in MJ2 "a long road to recovery."
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Liam talked about great scene between Gale and Peeta that Jennifer was asleep for (think Tigriss' shop), and said "we have an emotional scene together and there might be a kiss between Josh and I." “He said no spoilers, man!” Josh replies. LOL.
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About the last day of filming the franchise, Jennifer repeated what she has said about the emotional day in past interviews, "There’s no way of saying this that doesn’t start rumors, but that night we held each other and slept like puppies.”
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Jennifer when Conan called her bow a crossbow: “First of all, it’s not a crossbow, it’s a longbow, crossbows are easy. I’m sorry, but all you have to do is pull a trigger. I didn’t spend months and months training so I could be called a crossbow-er.”
Liam Hemsworth said every time he tries to do the Mockingjay whistle it sounds like the X-Files theme. (Josh agrees). The cast attempted it together. Josh also did his infamous crickets.
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Jen let out a big toast baby spoiler about the epilogue - confirming what we kind of already knew. YAY!!! I'm not spoiling it here but you can probably guess.
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Liam gave Gale some real-life love advice. "It's all right, mate. Plenty of fish in the sea."
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When asked what Josh will miss most about the franchise, he points down the table.."You're lookin' at 'em. The cast starts to dramatically comfort him and Liam adds, "He's a sweet, sweet angel."
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“Anyone who loves the end of the book will love the end of the movie,” says director Francis Lawrence. Only doubly confirming our faith in Francis, Nina and the team's adaptation.
Conan was about to close the panel but Jen insisted on letting one more girl ask a question because, "Oh come on she's in the full blown Katniss outfit!"
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On saying goodbye to Katniss forever, Jennifer said, “I don’t really feel like it’s happened yet. It’s such a huge part of my life. These movies really did change my life.
“The people in my life are still...“ she turned to Josh and Liam. “You guys challenged me. And I love you. I think the changes that happened in my life from doing this movies are so permanent, I don’t think I’ll ever truly say goodbye to her. It’s a part of me.
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There was so much more, and we'll be updating this post with a full video as soon as one becomes available.
The panel closed out with another showing of the new Mockingjay Part 2 trailer, and then the cast moved on to a press conference and interviews.
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See the mega masterpost of all the Mockingjay Part 2 press interview videos plus the full press conference HERE.
See Jen, Josh and Liam on a special Comic-Con episode of Conan here.
See the new Mockingjay Part 2 propo that was introduced at SDCC "Stand With Us" here.
Reader Comments (2)
Thank you for posting this! I just had the pleasure of watching the full panel and absolutely loved it. Everyone is so real, funny, sincere... there's just not enough to say about them. I can't wait for the movie!! Oh, and Josh's last thanks to the fans was so sweet.
You have to save up some time for it but it's so worth watching the entire panel. Glad you loved it! We did too!