Sam, fans have followed the casting with a lot of attention to detail, and Annie Cresta was not cast until you guys had wrapped Catching Fire, so without an actress in that role, did you find it difficult to draw from Finnick’s relationship with her in the Catching Fire arena and if so how did you overcome that?
Sam: I definitely see where you are coming from. No, but I don’t feel like without a picture in my head, as an actor, I necessarily needed that to draw from, if you know what I mean. Obviously from personal experience, I am married and therefore my wife was my kind of experience that I could draw from. You know, the love of my life and all that palaver. So I didn’t necessarily need an actress or an image of a person to emotionally inform me, if that makes sense. Definitely I am very excited to get started with Stef Dawson, who is playing Annie Cresta. Finnick spends so much time in the arena, away from her, focusing on mainly protecting Katniss. I don’t feel that it really affected my performance necessarily during Catching Fire.
Sam: I definitely see where you are coming from. No, but I don’t feel like without a picture in my head, as an actor, I necessarily needed that to draw from, if you know what I mean. Obviously from personal experience, I am married and therefore my wife was my kind of experience that I could draw from. You know, the love of my life and all that palaver. So I didn’t necessarily need an actress or an image of a person to emotionally inform me, if that makes sense. Definitely I am very excited to get started with Stef Dawson, who is playing Annie Cresta. Finnick spends so much time in the arena, away from her, focusing on mainly protecting Katniss. I don’t feel that it really affected my performance necessarily during Catching Fire.