Actress Jennifer Lawrence lost her hearing for a time due to the challenging recordings of The Hunger Games.
Long-time fans of Jennifer Lawrence probably know that the actress has had several accidents on sets throughout her career, which many define as occupational hazards of hers. But, we have to say that cutting off a finger is not the same as going deaf, as happened to the protagonist of "Don't look up" about ten years ago.
Jennifer Lawrence suffered an injury while filming The Hunger Games: Catching Fire. During a promotional tour for the film, the actress revealed some behind-the-scenes facts about the experience.
What happened to Jennifer Lawrence while she was filming The Hunger Games?
Recounting the Hunger Games incident, the actress said, "I was deaf in one ear for months... But that wasn't really a physical challenge. It was just an ear challenge because I had all these ear infections from diving and water and all that stuff. And then a jet from one of the scenes pierced my eardrum."
What's interesting is how life imitated art in this case, or the parallels between the story of the movie and what happened to the actress. In the first book by Suzanne Collins, the creator and writer of The Hunger Games, Katniss caused an explosion at the Careers' supply site when she shot an arrow.
This caused her mines to explode, but her impact blew her away. She had a bleed from her ear, due to a damaged eardrum, and readers learned that she permanently lost hearing in her left ear. Later, at the end of the story, she received a hearing aid after winning the games. In the movie, the water jets in the cornucopia scene are what injured Lawrence.
Your most recent accident
Jennifer Lawrence, during her most recent project, Don't look up, suffered an accident that caused alarm bells to go off on set and the production to really worry. The actress was working when glass on the set exploded and hit her in the face. The glass was meant to shatter, but something went wrong after the explosion.
"An explosion was set up for a stunt where glass breaks. It was a stunt where glass was supposed to break, but it hurt her," the production reported.
Unfortunately, these are things that happen and risks that are taken when facing films that involve stunts, especially when actors and actresses do not want to use stunt doubles and prefer to challenge themselves.
What did you think of her performance in The Hunger Games?
