+444 Hunger Game Readers: Admit it, you never really pictured Cinna as Black, amirite?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I really never imagined him as Lenny Kravitz

by Anonymous 13 years ago

WAIT-- is he //supposed// to be???

by Anonymous 13 years ago

That's how he's casted in the moovie :D

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Whoa! *goes and checks book* LOL

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never pictured Katniss as white, either.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

She had olive skin. Which is close enough to Jenn-Jenn.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I disagree. She doesn't look nearly as dark as the book described her to me.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I have this weird habit; even if a book describes a character to me a certain way, I tend to ignore it and make up looks for them based on their personality.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him Italian

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I imagined him as Hispanic. I imagined him looking like Jai from Queer Eye, actually.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Not black, maybe, but hispanic. Or some other darker skinned race.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him as the black guy from "What Not To Wear"...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him to look like Ru Paul.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

He was supposed to have green eyes, and I don't really imagine black guys with green eyes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

They can change their skin color to green in the Capitol...I'm sure they can change their eye color.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But Katniss did like him because he didn't over do it. He just had the gold around his eyes.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

But changing your eye color to a natural color wouldn't over do it. Maybe if they were red or white or periwinkle pink...that would be over the top.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Black people can naturally have colored eyes. Genetics, people.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I was pissed about his casting.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't think it matters what he looks like (except for handsome,he's supposed to be handsome) just as long as he acts like book Cinna.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

White, but not like bright pink white. more like olive-y. and elegant. very elegant.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I didn't picture him black, but I love the casting anyway. I think Mr. Kravitz will do a wonderful job.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him as a Polish flamboyant male with chin-length blond hair and sparkling green eyes. Also, no matter what the book described him as wearing, I imagined him in a black, long-sleeve sweater and skinny jeans.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I actually forget what I imagined him as. All I remember is that he was slightly lanky/skinny like Lenny

by Anonymous 13 years ago

It never mentions in the book what color he is...... so it makes sense in the movie hes black. Plus they can't just have a bunch of white people, some will say there being racist.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

*they're And I suppose that's correct, I mean I don't think they implied him to be Black but just sort of left that one up to the reader.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Yeah, I imagined him white, with white hair actually. I don't really know why, haha. He's one of the only people I'm disappointed about in terms of casting. I'm sure Lenny Kravitz is a great guy, but he's not Cinna.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I imagined him as Indian.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Speaking of which, did the Indians die out in the Hunger Games world?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The Hunger Games took place in post-apocalyptic America. They never described the rest of the world

by Anonymous 13 years ago

There was speculation that maybe parts of the other world survived, but people in the Capitol shut off contact with them to prevent rebellion in the districts.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I imagined him as dark, but on the lighter spectrum of that, with dark eyes and hair that's short, curly, and dark brown. I think Lenny Kravitz fits him well.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I never pictured Rue to be black either, even though the book said she was dark-skinned

by Anonymous 13 years ago

For some strange reason, I always pictured Rue as Asian.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Since she was always referenced to Prim, I always imagined her to look kind of like Prim too.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him like Protozoa from the Zenon movies.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I pictured him as David Tutera.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I don't know, I really always pictured him as black...

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No, but because his personality and actions were what made the character unique, I think a black actor will end up portraying him just as well as a white one would.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

The only casting choices I have a problem with is Peeta and Haymitch. Josh Hutcherson is just to adolescent for me and Haymitch is so supposed to be paunchy and have a beer belly or something like that which Woody Harrelson just doesn't have.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Hugh Laurie was busy; otherwise he would have been Haymitch.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Josh Hutcherson is Peeta? God dammit.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Guys remember that one episode of Phineas and Ferb where they reunited a band for their parents anniversary? Well remember the guy who was a hairstylist? Somehow at first I kinda pictured Cinna like that guy. Except with blonde hair and olive-toned skin.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

I imagined him as Sassy Gay Friend.

by Anonymous 13 years ago

Does it really matter in the end, as long as he carries himself like cinna?

by Anonymous 13 years ago

No white guy could ever pull off gold eyeliner, so obviously he would have to be black.

by Anonymous 12 years ago