Elizabeth Banks on Playing Effie Trinket — “Effie’s quite the over-the-top figure”

8/17/2011Elizabeth Banksadmin

E!’s Ben Lyons asks Elizabeth about playing Effie and how the weather is like while filming The Hunger Games in North Carolina. Key word — HOT.

“[Effie's] definitely a character that is externally created and not internally created,” she joked with us. Remember, Effie’s quite the over-the-top figure with various wild hairdos (hello bright pink and radiant orange) and outfits. “So much of it is about the hair and makeup and clothes,” Banks said.

And that can’t make filming an easy task. Especially on the film’s Southern set: “Very hot. Don’t know what we were thinking shooting in the summer in the South. Good thing nobody sweats!” she joked.

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Source: E! News