‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay’ Finds Annie Cresta And Messalla
AlthoughThe Hunger Games: Catching Fireis still three months away from theaters, casting on the next two installments is already heating up. Hot on the heels of last week’snewsthatNatalie Dormerwould play Cressida inThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay Parts 1 & 2comes the announcement that directorFrancis Lawrencehas also addedEvan RossandStef Dawson.
Ross will play Cressida’s cameraman Messalla, while Dawson will portray Annie Cresta, love interest of Finnick Odair (Sam Claflin). Learn more about the actors and their characters after the jump.
Annie is a former victor from District 4 and one of Finnick’s former mentees. While she won the 70th Hunger Games, the experience left her so psychologically shaken that she’s regarded as unstable and even crazy by others. Finnick makes his first appearance in the next film,Catching Fire.
Lionsgate announced Ross' casting viaTwittertoday. The 25-year-old is known for his recurring guest role on 90210 (the new one, obvi) as Charlie and films likeJeff, Who Lives at HomeandATL. The more music-minded among you may also recognize him as the son of Diana Ross and the boyfriend of Ashlee Simpson.
Dawson’s hiring wasrevealedyesterday. A native of Australia, she’s relatively unknown in the U.S. Her credits include several indies and the upcoming horror film13 Girls.
Lawrence, who directedCatching Fire, will return for the third and fourth installments of the franchise. Both are based on a single book by Suzanne Collins.Catching FireopensNovember 22, 2013, followed byMockingjay – Part 1onNovember 21, 2014and thenMockingjay – Part 2onNovember 20, 2014.
Directed by Francis Lawrence and based on the novel “Mockingjay” by Suzanne Collins, THE HUNGER GAMES: MOCKINGJAY PARTS 1 & 2 make up the third and fourth installments of heroine Katniss Everdeen’s (Jennifer Lawrence) journey as she leads the districts of Panem in a rebellion against the tyrannical and corrupt Capitol. As the war that will determine the fate of Panem escalates, Katniss must decipher for herself who she can trust and what needs to be done, with everything she cares for in the balance.
