Jen's Playing "Games" With Josh & Liam

As part of EW’s exclusive first look at the 2012 film adaptation of "The Hunger Games" the mag talked to Katniss herself Jennifer Lawrence about her take on the character as created by author Suzanne Collins for the popular novel series.

Lawrence was also asked for her thoughts on her "District 12 homeboys Peeta and Gale". And their real life actor alter egos...

PEETA (Josh Hutcherson): “Josh is so charming,” she says. “He’s so charming! And when you read in the books about Peeta being able to manipulate anybody — I mean Josh could get, well, I don’t know a metaphor for [this scenario] except for dirty ones. But he’s charming, he’s sweet, he’s down to earth, he’s normal. He embodies all of it and brings it all to Peeta. So when you meet him he’s got all of these great qualities and every single one of them come across in every line he says out loud as Peeta.”

GALE (Liam Hemsworth): “Liam is just a solid brick of muscle and you look at him and you’re like ‘Oh, okay great!’” she says. “But he’s got depth and he’s interesting and at the same time he’s natural and he flows.”

Hemsworth "flows"?

Collins adapted her own book into script form which Billy Ray has re-written. Gary Ross will call action.

The film is due out March 23rd, 2012