{"id":649393,"date":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/649393\/"},"modified":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T03:40:09","slug":"mckenna-grace-channels-jennifer-lawrence-hunger-games-past-during-sunrise-on-the-reaping-press-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/649393\/","title":{"rendered":"McKenna Grace Channels Jennifer Lawrence &#038; &#8216;Hunger Games&#8217; Past During &#8216;Sunrise On The Reaping&#8217; Press Tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mckenna Grace and her <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/tag\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping<\/a> co-stars have been on a worldwide press tour promoting the prequel to Suzanne Collins\u2019 franchise.<\/p>\n<p>During most of Grace\u2019s appearances, she has paid tribute to Jennifer Lawrence and The Hunger Games past by channeling some of their outfits.<\/p>\n<p>Grace kicked off the press tour\u00a0in the white dress Lawrence wore in\u00a0Catching Fire and shared her feelings about it in a social media post.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-character-posters-photos-lionsgate\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping\u2019 Character Posters: Joseph Zada, Mckenna Grace, Maya Hawke, Glenn Close &amp; More<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m SUCH a massive fan of this franchise, so the opportunity to recreate something like this was so special,\u201d Grace shared on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/DeMvdEACvfV\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Instagram<\/a>. \u201cA huge thank you to the entire team that helped me get ready, and especially @mollyddickson who\u2019s been helping me bring all my fangirl dreams to life for this press tour for months now hahah. I wanted to pay homage to Katniss, and this dress is so iconic, although the meaning of the look is not lost on me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She continued, \u201cWhat makes Katniss\u2019s wedding dress so powerful to me is that it begins as a costume meant to turn her into a spectacle but she and Cinna turn it into something so powerful. It made me think of Maysilee\u2019s refusal to let the Capitol strip away her humanity, \u2018If you let them treat you like an animal, they will.\u2019 One of the things I love most about The Hunger Games is the characters\u2019 determination to hold onto who they are even when others are trying to define them. It\u2019s truly incredible just how much deep meaning and storytelling is told through these costumes alone, it was such an incredible night getting to celebrate the wardrobe of these films. I\u2019m still pinching myself.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/gallery\/the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-red-carpet-photos-joseph-zada-mckenna-grace\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u2018The Hunger Games: Sunrise On The Reaping\u2019 Red Carpet Photos: All Of Joseph Zada &amp; Mckenna Grace\u2019s Looks From Press Tour<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Grace also paid homage to Rachel Zegler from\u00a0The Hunger Games prequel Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, Amandla Stenberg\u2019s Rue from the very first Hunger Games film, and Jena Malone from when she attended a screening for Catching Fire in 2013.<\/p>\n<p>RELATED: <a href=\"https:\/\/deadline.com\/2026\/10\/jennifer-lawrence-reprising-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping-1237207102\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jennifer Lawrence On Reprising \u2018Hunger Games\u2019 Role For \u2018Sunrise On The Reaping\u2019: \u201cIt Was So Emotional\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scroll through the photo gallery below to see all the times McKenna Grace paid tribute to\u00a0The Hunger Games past.<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mckenna Grace and her Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping co-stars have been on a worldwide press tour&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":649394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,29957,70295,111,139,69,80057,98914],"class_list":["post-649393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-mckenna-grace","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-the-hunger-games-sunrise-on-the-reaping"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/649394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}