Who Should Play Haymitch in The Hunger Games?
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With Lionsgate milking its casting announcement roll-out as much as possible (today’s news: All My Children’s Leven Rambin and Meg Ryan/Dennis Quaid progeny Jack Quaid are your new District 1 tributes, Marvel and Glimmer!) it’s time to play the speculation game with one of the series’ most important supporting characters: Haymitch. Which veteran actors could fill the Hunger Games winner-turned-alcoholic mentor’s shoes?
Hugh Laurie
The House star is a running favorite among fans of the books and would make an ideal Haymitch — surly, bitter, broken by life but not irredeemable as the only lifeline Katniss and Peeta have on the outside. The bad news: Laurie might not be available for the role even if he was to get it.
Robert Downey, Jr.
RDJ’s another fave, thanks to his dry wit and ability to engender audience sympathy even when he’s at his worst. And the abject horror of having lived [...]
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