Elizabeth Banks hopes white women will channel their inner Effie Trinket when it comes time to vote in the 2024 election.
During an appearance Tuesday on hustle‘s One table podcast, The mini wife The star looked back on her time Hunger Games A cinematic franchise based on the series of novels by Suzanne Collins. She noted that Effie Trinket had one of the “greatest arcs.”[s]She played a role at all, thanks to Evie’s path to becoming a revolutionary.
“I think Effie, for me, is one of the characters that has the greatest story that I’ve ever played, because she clearly supports this fascist regime that she benefits from, and it’s only after she really cares about it and sees how unfair it is when they want to drag Katniss and Peeta into the Games again,” Banks said. “It seems like that’s not the deal here. It’s not supposed to be this way. And now, you’re like, ‘Wait a minute, wait.'”
The banks’ comment referred to the second Hunger Games film, Catching firewhere after winning the Hunger Games, Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta (Josh Hutcherson) are forced to return to Quill’s deadly third quarter matches, which have claimed all the previous winners. Katniss was the only living victorious woman from District 12, meaning she had to be chosen to participate in the Games, while Peeta was one of two living victorious men. (Haymitch Abernathy, played by Woody Harrelson, was initially scooped up, though Peeta volunteered to take his place.)
“I believe in Catching fire When she says, “I want to be part of this team,” and you see her really struggling and in the end she seems like a revolutionary. Banks added: “It’s turned her around. I wish more of us would become revolutionaries! Ivy is the role model, guys! I don’t understand the 53% of white women who didn’t vote for Kamala.”
Banks cited statistics published by both CNN and NBC News that found that 53 percent of white women voted for President Donald Trump in the 2024 elections, versus Vice President Kamala Harris.
At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, before the election that saw Trump elected to his first term, the Emmy nominee compared Effie Trinket to the president.
“Some of you know me from Hunger Games“So when I tuned into Cleveland last week I said hey, this is my act,” she said.
Hunger Games The franchise is gearing up to launch its latest expansion, Part 2, Sunrise on harvestwhich will track Haymitch’s time in the games. Joseph Zada will take over the role from Harrelson, while Elle Fanning will replace Effie Trinket.
Sunrise on harvest It hits theaters on November 20.
