On June 3, Jena Malone's band The Shoe will release I’m OK — its first full-length album since forming in 2008 (pre-orders are available here).
Refinery29 talked to Jena and her musical soulmate Lem Jay Ignacio at Ignacio’s garage studio in Los Angeles, where the album was recorded. Besides talking about the band and the upcoming record, they touched on The Hunger Games (of course) as Jena plays Johanna Mason in Catching Fire and the upcoming Mockingjay Parts 1 and 2. Jena let it slip that she's finished shooting her part in the films (!!!) and talked about the types of roles she's drawn to and inspiring teenagers, "I feel like they are the true revolutionaries. We should be doing everything for them."
From Refinery29:
Speaking of your other job, have you finished shooting everything for the next Hunger Games?
JM: "I just finished shooting everything two weeks ago. It’s crazy. I don’t even know if I’m allowed to say that. We are finishing in June. But, they are so secretive. It is so crazy. We will wrap and then never play these characters ever again. I’m a little sad about it."
LJ: "She was really sad. She was like, 'I’m never going to do the character again!'"
JM: "It is kind of a strange thing, I don’t know. I’m hoping that I found all of the pieces. I’ve never carried a character for two and a half to three years before."
What do you think your appeal is to broken but badass chicks?
JM: "I have played a lot of them. I might have represented a part of their heart on film, at different times in my life. When I was younger, I was really more drawn to those types of characters. I wanted some real meat in a role; I didn’t want to play the girlfriend or the daughter. I want to be challenging myself. But, the older I get, the more I want to just create things for teenagers. I want to inspire them and knock them down. I want them to skin their knees and then I want to lift them up. I feel like they are the true revolutionaries. We should be doing everything for them."
Teenagers really relate to characters like that. They connect to the underdog or the badass.
JM: "The way that they have latched on to Katniss Everdeen [and] the whole Hunger Games. Who doesn’t want to be that woman? There is no self there. It isn’t self-centered. It isn’t about her being pretty or using her sexuality. It is all about her using her strength. She sacrifices herself for love. It is amazing that 13-year-old girls are looking at that and saying, 'She is my hero.'"
As opposed to Disney princesses.
JM: "As opposed to Alicia Silverstone in Clueless in 1995. Things are now on a completely different spectrum. I think that we tapped into a collective consciousness kind of thing; young men and women who want to be treated more like adults and the way that they view films and how they are portrayed in films."
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