Elizabeth Banks on Elle Fanning in Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping

Elle Fanning has Elizabeth Banks’ stamp of approval for taking part in a younger Effie Trinket within the upcoming “Hunger Games” prequel, “Sunrise on the Reaping.”

“I am so excited,” Banks mentioned Monday night time on the premiere of her new Peacock collection, “The Miniature Wife,” after I requested what she thought of seeing Fanning within the “Sunrise on the Reaping” trailer. “I think she’s perfect casting. I’ve always said it. The fans loved it and wanted it, so I was really happy about it.”

Fanning beforehand instructed The Hollywood Reporter that Banks congratulated her for being forged with a bouquet of flowers and a message with the film’s iconic phrase, “May the odds be in your favor,” and signed, “All love, Elizabeth Banks.”

In the Francis Lawrence-directed prequel, Effie, who was portrayed by Banks within the unique 4 “Hunger Games” movies, is a stylist to District 12 Tribute Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) within the lead-up to the fiftieth Hunger Games.

An adaptation of the bestselling novel by Suzanne Collins, the movie’s forged additionally contains Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Glenn Close as Drusilla Sickle and Billy Porter as her estranged husband, Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Mckenna Grace as Maysilee Donner, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, Lili Taylor as Mags, Ben Wang as Wyatt and Ralph Fiennes as President Snow. Molly McCann can even seem as Louella, whereas Iona Bell will painting her Capitol-assigned lookalike, Lou Lou.

Original franchise stars Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are additionally anticipated to make an look within the film.

In “The Miniature Wife,” Banks performs a girl who’s by accident shrunk to 6 inches by her scientist husband, performed by Matthew Macfadyen. “They pitched it to me as ‘War of the Roses,’ but she’s six inches tall. I was like that is very interesting,” Banks mentioned. “I loved the theme of minimizing a partner’s feelings and what they want and their needs and all those things. And I thought this was a great opportunity to use an absurdist lens to really analyze that kind of dynamic in a relationship.”

She admitted that she was nervous about how reasonable she would look whereas tiny. “I was relieved that the CGI looked as good as it did,” Banks mentioned. “I was so worried that I wasn’t going to look like I was really there. You just can’t imagine it, honestly, no matter how many times they tell you it’s going to be fine.”

Her co-stars used a six-inch doll as a stand-in for her character. “I was 3D-printed from like me basically,” Bank mentioned. “I like to say this is probably the least mentally prepared I was for a job because I did not understand how much of it I would be solo, and how vulnerable that feels to sort of have to be imagining everything on your own. It’s really kind of scary.”

All 10 episodes of “The Miniature Wife” will premiere on Peacock on April 9.