Peeta Faces President Snow in Deleted Scene From 'Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1'
'Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1' Deleted Scenes Peeta
With ten months until The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 2 hits theaters, here is an extra little serving of Peeta to tide you over.
Lionsgate has released several deleted scenes from The Hunger Games: Mockingjay — Part 1, the third installment of its smash-hit dystopian YA franchise. The first tidbit, seen above, features a kidnapped and clearly haunted Peeta facing his captor, President Snow, who requests that the young baker’s son becomes a mouthpiece for the 1984-esque messages meant to quell the rebellion.
The scene, which was to come early in the film, shows Peeta in good health and at least somewhat weary of the ongoing bloodshed caused by the war between The Capitol and the rebellion. Ultimately, the three-minute conversation was cut because it diminished the tension underlying the rest of the film.
"The big dramatic question of Mockingjay — Part 1 is will we get Peeta back? Is Peeta okay?” director Francis Lawrence told The Huffington Post. “To see Peeta alive, looking pretty well and being brought into a nice place for an interview feels like it was letting a little air out of the bag. It gave away too much. So sort of for the combination of those reasons, we let it go.”
Lawrence also cut some of the lighter moments in the film, including the one above. The minute-long scene features Effie Trinket desperately trying to give Katniss just the right touch of makeup to accent the teenage hero’s beleaguered, trapped-in-an-underground-fortress look, which is probably way more difficult than it would seem — especially for someone so used to the grand, colorful pageantry of The Capitol.
