Jennifer Lawrence will get paid 15 times more for “Hunger Games”

As Katniss Everdeen, the lead in the Hunger Games film series, Jennifer Lawrence gained notoriety in 2010. Lawrence has reaped substantial financial rewards for her efforts due to the films’ enormous global success. In reality, her pay has risen considerably since the last movie.

From 2012 through 2015, Lawrence appeared in four Hunger Games movies. Lawrence’s income climbed dramatically during those years due to how important she was to the franchise.

She began by earning $1 million during the first Hunger Games film, according to IBTimes. For The Hunger Games: Catching Fire, this amount increased to $10 million. She earned $15 million for The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’s two parts.

Not just the lucrative paycheck of Jennifer Lawrence was a highlight of the Hunger Games movies production. She later revealed that she had a terrific time on set and enjoyed working with her co-stars, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson.

In November 2022, she told The New York Times, “The boys and I would always go back to our hotel and just drink whisky and get stoned.”

Lawrence even said, “the greatest fun I’ve ever had with actors on set is Josh and Liam on Hunger Games” in her “73 Questions” interview with Vogue.

Jennifer Lawrence had doubts about becoming a part of the “Hunger Games” franchise

Lawrence was first cautious about joining a movie franchise based on a well-liked book series, although many stars would love to do so. Lawrence was curious if she wanted the stardom that would come with playing Katniss at the time because she was a budding actor with modest success.

In 2012, Lawrence revealed to  Access Hollywood, “I allotted myself three days.” “I adored The Hunger Games, as I had read in the books, but I wasn’t sure if I should change my life for it. I’m right now in a serene location. Outside my house, nobody is staked. I wanted to be sure I wouldn’t regret accepting when I did. I don’t regret it, either.”

Lawrence ultimately concluded that she did not want to miss a significant chance out of fear. She stated, “I might have turned it down out of fear, and then I would have been that resentful actress telling my grandkids, ‘I’m the one who declined it.”

But Lawrence was right about the invasion of privacy. She has spoken candidly about how challenging it was to get used to celebrity.

In 2013, Lawrence told Vanity Fair, “I call my mother weeping all the time… grappling with the implications of having no more privacy. You forfeit your privacy. When 15 strangers are pursuing you, it’s difficult not to feel like a curse for making as much money as I do by doing what I love. It also sounds ridiculous.”