ALEXANDRIA SYMONDS: I saw the movie last night, and it's amazing. Have te been going to all of the premieres?
WILLOW SHIELDS: I just went to the LA premiere.
SYMONDS: How was that?
SHIELDS: That was really awesome—it was huge!
SYMONDS: I saw some pictures. It seemed like it was probably really overwhelming.
SHIELDS: Yeah, definitely.
SYMONDS: And this is your first time dealing with all of that stuff, right? Have te found it to be a pretty natural process, o is it like a total other world?
SHIELDS: It's just like a really crazy experience. Definitely otherworldly, because all of these fan of the movie come to the premiere—to see, te know, all of the cast members and the movie. It's just all been really crazy.
SYMONDS: Yeah, I'm sure. Had te read the libri before te were cast?
SHIELDS: Yeah, I was almost done with the first book right before I got the audition for Prim.
SYMONDS: It's such a huge property at this point. Do te think that there was più pressure with this role than there would be with a regular role, to live up to what people had been thinking about?
SHIELDS: Definitely, especially because it's such a huge movie and it's a pretty important character, for me, in the book, so at first I was a little nervous not being able to become the character. Yeah, at first I was nervous.
SYMONDS: I don't want to give anything away, the times when te are onscreen in this film are all super emotional. You're kind of dialed up to 10, all the time, in each of your scenes. How did te prepare for that?
SHIELDS: I think Leggere the successivo book helped, because I knew how Prim became . . . In the first book, she is the emotional character. She's still young, she's still small; then towards the end of the last book, she almost becomes a Katniss, and she becomes really Ribelle - The Brave and a really strong character, and I think that Leggere those libri really helped to know that Prim becomes a brave, strong character. In the first book, she's an emotional young girl who's gone through a lot of things in her life.
SYMONDS: There have been a lot of domande in interviews with your castmates about what they did to train and everything. Did te have to do any of that, too, o did te just watch them and eat Oreos and laugh?
SHIELDS: I just watched them. I actually went to one of their trainings one giorno and just watched them do somersaults and use all of the fake knives and fake swords, and it was really fun to watch them.
SYMONDS: What was the atmosphere like on set with all the kids? Did te guys all get along really well?
SHIELDS: We all got along great. We all just hung out anytime we could. We totally just all got along perfectly.
SYMONDS: And you're home-schooled, right? So te haven't had the traditional school experience. Has it been weird, then, to just spend a lot of time with a lot of kids all your age at once?
SHIELDS: It's been awesome. It's been really fun. I have a couple of Friends here in New Mexico that I do school with every day. They just come over to my house, and I have a couple of Friends that are my age. To be with all of those kids that are, of course, my age at once is really fun. It was a great experience.
SYMONDS: When did te decide that te wanted to be an actress?
SHIELDS: Ever since I was a about seven o eight; I think it was seven. My brother detto "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things—we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up -- all my siblings and me -- we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.
SYMONDS: I'm sure that must have been huge for your whole family. Has your family been really supportive?
SHIELDS: Yeah, definitely. My brother was a huge fan of The Hunger Games for a couple of years before I got the role, so he was really excited when he heard that I got the role.
SYMONDS: Were your parents concerned about the content of the books? It really is heavy. Did te guys talk about it all?
SHIELDS: At first we were wondering about that because we were like, "Well, is it going to be as violent as the book?" The libri were pretty violent, but I think we were just like, at least we know my character's not a violent character—she's not in any of those violent scenes, so that wasn't a huge problem for us. But yeah, I guess I thought about it. I think we thought that since I had already read the books, that we knew what to expect. It was really, really violent.
SYMONDS: Do te remember how te reacted when te found out that te got the role?
SHIELDS: I think I was really surprised. I was just sitting there just like, "Wow, this is really actually happening?" I hadn't totally taken it in yet.
SYMONDS: Did te guys go celebrate o anything?
SHIELDS: I was in LA at the time—I had flown in with my mom—so we just went out to cena and I got a smoothie. That's kind of how we celebrated—on our own, in California.
SYMONDS: I think a frullato, smoothie is a great way to celebrate. Can te tell me about what it was like working with Gary Ross?
SHIELDS: He's a really awesome director. He envisioned everything in The Hunger Games perfectly, exactly how I imagined it, which is perfect to work on because it just makes everything fall into place when you're working. So I think he was just an amazing director and he was great to work with. He's so nice, and he's one of those directors which lets te do what te need to do to become your character—he lets te try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," o "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me and Jennifer try to just become our characters on our own and it worked out really well.
SYMONDS: What about with Jennifer? Did te guys start to feel like te really were sisters?
SHIELDS: Definitely. Jennifer is awesome—she's so talented, she's an amazing actress, but she's so nice. I mean, we became sisters on set. It was really awesome working with her because she's such a nice person, and we definitely became sisters on set.
SYMONDS: te have siblings. If te were ever in Prim's situation, how do te think te would feel? What do te think te would do if one of your siblings volunteered to go to the Hunger Games in your place?
SHIELDS: I don't know. I think I would be in Prim's place in that feeling—say my sister volunteered for me to go to the Hunger Games; I would be feeling the same as Prim [does]. She doesn't want her sister to go, because she knows that she [might] never come home. Yeah, I think I would react a lot like Prim, because I'm really close with my sister.
SYMONDS: Yeah, I think one of the great things about the book and the movie is that it's a really human reaction. It's something te can definitely identify with.
SHIELDS: If that would actually happen in real life, if it ever happened, that's, I think, a reaction that would go on.
SYMONDS: When te watch the movie now, is it scary to you—or is it just like, since you've been through filming, it's just Lost that element of being scary?
SHIELDS: I don't know. I've seen it once now, that was the night of the premiere. At first, I was a little scared to see it, just because of being nervous [about] how it ended up. But if you're talking about the content of the movie, at first, during a couple of scenes, I was a little scared—but that was just because I was surprised. I think they just put everything together perfectly, and I think a lot of kids my age will really Amore it.
SYMONDS: Can te give me a sense of what you're thinking about as te are getting prepared for the successivo movie? You've got a lot to do.
SHIELDS: I'd like to work on some stuff in between—but just to keep my mind off of the excitement, and filming the successivo one, I don't know. It's just excitement. After the premiere I was like, "I hope I'm still excited for something!" But I'm just super excited to shoot the successivo one.
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WILLOW SHIELDS: I just went to the LA premiere.
SYMONDS: How was that?
SHIELDS: That was really awesome—it was huge!
SYMONDS: I saw some pictures. It seemed like it was probably really overwhelming.
SHIELDS: Yeah, definitely.
SYMONDS: And this is your first time dealing with all of that stuff, right? Have te found it to be a pretty natural process, o is it like a total other world?
SHIELDS: It's just like a really crazy experience. Definitely otherworldly, because all of these fan of the movie come to the premiere—to see, te know, all of the cast members and the movie. It's just all been really crazy.
SYMONDS: Yeah, I'm sure. Had te read the libri before te were cast?
SHIELDS: Yeah, I was almost done with the first book right before I got the audition for Prim.
SYMONDS: It's such a huge property at this point. Do te think that there was più pressure with this role than there would be with a regular role, to live up to what people had been thinking about?
SHIELDS: Definitely, especially because it's such a huge movie and it's a pretty important character, for me, in the book, so at first I was a little nervous not being able to become the character. Yeah, at first I was nervous.
SYMONDS: I don't want to give anything away, the times when te are onscreen in this film are all super emotional. You're kind of dialed up to 10, all the time, in each of your scenes. How did te prepare for that?
SHIELDS: I think Leggere the successivo book helped, because I knew how Prim became . . . In the first book, she is the emotional character. She's still young, she's still small; then towards the end of the last book, she almost becomes a Katniss, and she becomes really Ribelle - The Brave and a really strong character, and I think that Leggere those libri really helped to know that Prim becomes a brave, strong character. In the first book, she's an emotional young girl who's gone through a lot of things in her life.
SYMONDS: There have been a lot of domande in interviews with your castmates about what they did to train and everything. Did te have to do any of that, too, o did te just watch them and eat Oreos and laugh?
SHIELDS: I just watched them. I actually went to one of their trainings one giorno and just watched them do somersaults and use all of the fake knives and fake swords, and it was really fun to watch them.
SYMONDS: What was the atmosphere like on set with all the kids? Did te guys all get along really well?
SHIELDS: We all got along great. We all just hung out anytime we could. We totally just all got along perfectly.
SYMONDS: And you're home-schooled, right? So te haven't had the traditional school experience. Has it been weird, then, to just spend a lot of time with a lot of kids all your age at once?
SHIELDS: It's been awesome. It's been really fun. I have a couple of Friends here in New Mexico that I do school with every day. They just come over to my house, and I have a couple of Friends that are my age. To be with all of those kids that are, of course, my age at once is really fun. It was a great experience.
SYMONDS: When did te decide that te wanted to be an actress?
SHIELDS: Ever since I was a about seven o eight; I think it was seven. My brother detto "I want to start acting," and me and my sister just said, "Oh we'll try it, we'll see." It was just one of those things—we were just like, "Oh, we'll see what happens." So we ended up -- all my siblings and me -- we ended up just trying it, and I got that one role on In Plain Sight and then we just decided to keep going and see what happens. And then: Hunger Games.
SYMONDS: I'm sure that must have been huge for your whole family. Has your family been really supportive?
SHIELDS: Yeah, definitely. My brother was a huge fan of The Hunger Games for a couple of years before I got the role, so he was really excited when he heard that I got the role.
SYMONDS: Were your parents concerned about the content of the books? It really is heavy. Did te guys talk about it all?
SHIELDS: At first we were wondering about that because we were like, "Well, is it going to be as violent as the book?" The libri were pretty violent, but I think we were just like, at least we know my character's not a violent character—she's not in any of those violent scenes, so that wasn't a huge problem for us. But yeah, I guess I thought about it. I think we thought that since I had already read the books, that we knew what to expect. It was really, really violent.
SYMONDS: Do te remember how te reacted when te found out that te got the role?
SHIELDS: I think I was really surprised. I was just sitting there just like, "Wow, this is really actually happening?" I hadn't totally taken it in yet.
SYMONDS: Did te guys go celebrate o anything?
SHIELDS: I was in LA at the time—I had flown in with my mom—so we just went out to cena and I got a smoothie. That's kind of how we celebrated—on our own, in California.
SYMONDS: I think a frullato, smoothie is a great way to celebrate. Can te tell me about what it was like working with Gary Ross?
SHIELDS: He's a really awesome director. He envisioned everything in The Hunger Games perfectly, exactly how I imagined it, which is perfect to work on because it just makes everything fall into place when you're working. So I think he was just an amazing director and he was great to work with. He's so nice, and he's one of those directors which lets te do what te need to do to become your character—he lets te try to do everything on your own when you're acting. Then at some points he would say, "Let's try this," o "Let's try that." Most of the time he just kind of let me and Jennifer try to just become our characters on our own and it worked out really well.
SYMONDS: What about with Jennifer? Did te guys start to feel like te really were sisters?
SHIELDS: Definitely. Jennifer is awesome—she's so talented, she's an amazing actress, but she's so nice. I mean, we became sisters on set. It was really awesome working with her because she's such a nice person, and we definitely became sisters on set.
SYMONDS: te have siblings. If te were ever in Prim's situation, how do te think te would feel? What do te think te would do if one of your siblings volunteered to go to the Hunger Games in your place?
SHIELDS: I don't know. I think I would be in Prim's place in that feeling—say my sister volunteered for me to go to the Hunger Games; I would be feeling the same as Prim [does]. She doesn't want her sister to go, because she knows that she [might] never come home. Yeah, I think I would react a lot like Prim, because I'm really close with my sister.
SYMONDS: Yeah, I think one of the great things about the book and the movie is that it's a really human reaction. It's something te can definitely identify with.
SHIELDS: If that would actually happen in real life, if it ever happened, that's, I think, a reaction that would go on.
SYMONDS: When te watch the movie now, is it scary to you—or is it just like, since you've been through filming, it's just Lost that element of being scary?
SHIELDS: I don't know. I've seen it once now, that was the night of the premiere. At first, I was a little scared to see it, just because of being nervous [about] how it ended up. But if you're talking about the content of the movie, at first, during a couple of scenes, I was a little scared—but that was just because I was surprised. I think they just put everything together perfectly, and I think a lot of kids my age will really Amore it.
SYMONDS: Can te give me a sense of what you're thinking about as te are getting prepared for the successivo movie? You've got a lot to do.
SHIELDS: I'd like to work on some stuff in between—but just to keep my mind off of the excitement, and filming the successivo one, I don't know. It's just excitement. After the premiere I was like, "I hope I'm still excited for something!" But I'm just super excited to shoot the successivo one.
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This is written completely da me so don't te dare steal it! If te do use it, remember to credit me, o else! This was inspired da THG & My friend Nadia (Nahh-Deee-Aaahh)
I bust the windows out your shop
'cause te never gave me my chops
i asked for them a week fa
but te never delivered them, no
I bust the windows out your shop
when i figured you'd never deliver
Those mutton chops in that mutton pie
so because of te im blind in the eye
I must admit te didn't do it
but i aint forgiving you, not a bit
'cause i went to the games
and i got punched in the face
te see, i was quite hungry
and te didnt give me
That pie when i told te i needed it
But now te can see what te have done
My eye has gone, forever it has gone
ow,ow,ow,ow
I bust the windows out your shop
'cause te never gave me my chops
i asked for them a week fa
but te never delivered them, no
I bust the windows out your shop
when i figured you'd never deliver
Those mutton chops in that mutton pie
so because of te im blind in the eye
I must admit te didn't do it
but i aint forgiving you, not a bit
'cause i went to the games
and i got punched in the face
te see, i was quite hungry
and te didnt give me
That pie when i told te i needed it
But now te can see what te have done
My eye has gone, forever it has gone
ow,ow,ow,ow
(Credit to xitsdanielle on tumblr)
Katniss is a fierce dame.
She’ll lift up her bow and quickly take aim.
Peeta likes to bake bread, in his dad’s oven
He’s a baker man.
They’re tributes in The Hunger Games.
Now all of Panem knows their names.
And they don’t even know what,
but they’ve gotta survive, yeah they’ve gotta survive.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
te better run, better hide, gotta be quicker.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
Fighting for their lives, trying to be the victor.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
te better run, better hide, gotta be quicker.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games.
Fighting for their lives, trying to be the victor.
Katniss is a fierce dame.
She’ll lift up her bow and quickly take aim.
Peeta likes to bake bread, in his dad’s oven
He’s a baker man.
They’re tributes in The Hunger Games.
Now all of Panem knows their names.
And they don’t even know what,
but they’ve gotta survive, yeah they’ve gotta survive.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
te better run, better hide, gotta be quicker.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
Fighting for their lives, trying to be the victor.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games
te better run, better hide, gotta be quicker.
All the tributes in The Hunger Games.
Fighting for their lives, trying to be the victor.