Search

 

Donate

LATEST NEWS

Entries in Effie Trinket (24)

Sunday
Mar162014

An Effie Army at the Catching Fire Capitol Costume Competition

The Hunger Games UK held a Capitol Costume Competition on Sunday, March 16th in honor of the UK release of The Hunger Games: Catching Fire on March 17th. They requested that fans turn up at Marylebone Station dressed in their Capitol finest in order to win prizes and a chance at a pair of tickets to the Mockingjay Part 1 premiere in November. Check out all of the incredible Effies! We'll update you here when the winner is announced.


Here are the Capitol Costume Competition invite details:

The Capitol requests your presence at a very important event. Dress up in your finest Capitol Couture and join us at Marylebone Station from 11.15am on the 16th March. Bring honour to your District by arriving in your Panem finery and you could win prizes fit for President Snow himself.

Take inspiration from your favourite Victors and bring their style to life with your attire. Pink wigs, butterfly eyelashes and shiny suits are all encouraged, so grab your prep team and get ready to impress us. The Capitol will assess your outfit, and the best dressed citizen will win a pair of tickets to the Mockingjay premiere later this year.

We’ll also be holding a reaping for many more Hunger Games prizes.

Bring pride to Panem and, as always, may the odds be ever in your favour!

Follow HungerGamesUK on twitter to get the latest.


Saturday
Feb222014

Trish Summerville Shares a 'Catching Fire' Set Photo of Elizabeth Banks as Effie

Catching Fire costume designer Trish Summerville shared a great behind the scenes set photo of Elizabeth Banks as Effie on her instagram yesterday.

Banks is wearing what they called Effie's "Snow Queen" outfit and looks like she's ready to head to the set.

Summerville is up for a Costume Designer's Guild Award for Catching Fire tonight. Good luck, Trish!

 

Friday
Feb142014

Elizabeth Banks Talks Jennifer Lawrence & Playing Effie "She's One of My All Time Favorites"

Elizabeth Banks is currently supporting The Listerine 21 Day Challenge, which supports Oral Health America’s Smiles Across America program in their goal of connecting at-risk children with needed access to oral care. She snapped her own “Swish Selfie” on the red carpet at the launch of the challenge on Thursday to trigger an immediate donation of $21,000 to Oral Health America.

Talk at the Los Angeles event inevitably turned to Jennifer Lawrence, Mockingjay and Philip Seymour Hoffman:

So, speaking of things that ladies love, give us some inside scoop about hanging with JLaw?
Well, recently everyone surprised me on the set of Mockingjay with a birthday cake! That was really fun. And, of course, the first person to delve into my cake was Jennifer. I will say she’s a girl who likes to eat and I love that about her.

As far as the Hunger Games go, are there any surprises hardcore fans of the book won’t see coming?
Honestly, I can’t say anything about Mockingjay! Ahhh!! We’ll both end up hurt somewhere! I think the hardcore fans can expect exactly what both The Hunger Games and Catching Fire delivered, Mockingjay is going to be as faithful a rendition of Suzanne’s Collins’s world and books and characters as we can put out!

“I am almost done,” she said. “I’m going to miss playing Effie, she’s one of my all-time favorite characters. I have such a ball with her & this cast & I will miss it. It’s absorbing because we still put the movies out so we’ll still have our little reunions, which I’m looking forward to. I have two more years of getting reunited with all these wonderful people!”

And what was it like to work with Philip Seymour Hoffman?
I’d really rather not discuss it. He was an incredible actor that I respected greatly and I will miss tremendously.

Via HuffPost and Cosmo

 

Tuesday
Nov262013

Elizabeth Banks Improvised Your Favorite Lines in 'Catching Fire'

Some of the best lines in Catching Fire are uttered by the incredible Elizabeth Banks as Effie Trinket. She provides much needed comic relief in the film, and some of the most heart-wrenching emotional moments as well. So we were thrilled to hear that Elizabeth actually improvised most of those hilarious one-liners, and fought for them to be included in the movie for the sake of the fans. Read her interview with MTV for more:

While the wild wigs, costume and makeup that make Banks nearly unrecognizable go a long way to building the memorable character, it turns out that the actress herself came up with several shout-outs and lines that will undoubtedly further cement Effie's place as a fan favorite.

For example, remember the best line of the first movie? Of course you do:

In Catching Fire, Banks managed a sly wink at the infamous quote while offering a running commentary on the Capitol landmarks she's walking Katniss and Peeta through: "The library, all mahogany."

"I brought that back, I threw it in there," she said of the line, which was unscripted. "I did it, and Francis called cut, and I went over to him, and said, 'You have to keep that in the movie, because the fans will go bananas.' " (We DID!)

Lawrence left it in and the fans did indeed go bananas, if exclamation point-filled Tumblr reactions are any evidence. Banks didn't just put her own spin on hardwood references though. She also revealed that the "Ooh, curtains" comment about a fellow Capitol citizen's choice of accessory, as well as the memorably snapped "chins up, smiles on" tossed in the glum Katniss' direction were her ideas.

"I get to improv a lot with Effie, which is fun," she said. "There were really very few words scripted so I got to have fun with that sequence."

Tuesday
Oct152013

New HQ Behind-The-Scenes Effie Still in Allure Magazine

November Allure Magazine has a feature on how The Hunger Games wild hair and make-up looks are actually translating to real-life. And it just happens to include a great new behind-the-scenes pic of Elizabeth Banks getting prepped by both Linda Flowers (hair) and Ve Neill (make-up) on the Catching Fire set.

Thursday
Jul112013

Elizabeth Banks Talks Effie With The Advocate

In a new interview with The Advocate, Elizabeth Banks talks Effie Trinket and her fabulous fashion:

Have you ever played a lesbian?
I don’t think I have — although Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games might be gay. My vision of the Capitol is pansexual like ancient Rome, where everybody’s doing everybody.

Any chance she’s a drag queen?
I’ve actually thought about that. I think Suzanne Collins created the character to be nurturing and mothering in her own way, so she’s probably a woman. But I definitely saw a lot of drag Effies last Halloween in West Hollywood!

Are Effie’s wigs and outfits in Catching Fire even more outrageous than in the first film?
They really are. We relied a lot on Sarah Burton for Alexander McQueen for the costuming, so there’s some amazing, handmade, one-of-a-kind couture. I feel so honored to have worn these pieces of art.

Effie's serving Nicki Minaj meets Frenchy from Grease in Catching Fire promo photos.
There’s some of that, true, but she changes quite a bit and has a more varied palette this time around. You haven’t seen her more fabulous stuff yet.

What advice would you give a guy who wanted to dress up as Elizabeth Banks for Halloween?
Just look really tired and maybe stick a baby on your hip. That should do it. I’m an exhausted mom with two very young children, so I’m not very fabulous right now. But Halloween is one of my favorite holidays; I’m a pagan at heart.

See more at The Advocate

Monday
Apr222013

VIDEO: Elizabeth Banks Talks Effie At Cinema Con

Elizabeth Banks talks about Effie's amazing costumes in Catching Fire during an interview at Cinema Con. 

See more photos of Elizabeth on the red carpet and receiving the Excellence in Acting Award at Cinema Con HERE.

We can't wait to see Effie's monarch butterfly dress in the movie!! We're almost certain it's this Alexander McQueen Spring 2011 dress of hand-painted feathers:

 

Thursday
Apr182013

Effie Wears Alexander McQueen

When the last Hunger Games Explorer image started to un-blur itself last Saturday, we thought the dress Effie was wearing looked an awful lot like Alexander McQueen:

Turns out our normally useless, totally random fashion knowledge is good for something! Alexander McQueen confirmed that the dress is indeed McQueen Autumn/Winter 2012. Effie Upgrade!

 

Page 1 2 3