Hollywood lost a great talent when Philip Seymour Hoffman passed away from an accidental overdose last February. This left movie studios in a tricky place when thinking of ways to finish the projects that Hoffman was working in.
One project in particular that Hoffman did not finish was The Hunger Games: Mockingjay. Back in March, it was speculated that Lionsgate would use Computer-Generated Imagery, or CGI to finish Hoffman's unfinished scenes in the film.
The director of the movie Francis Lawrence went on to later say that they would not be using CGI and now he has opened up about the production team's solution to the beloved actor's untimely death.
Instead of using "digital trickery" to finish the actor's scenes, Lawrence told the Huffington Post that the production team decided to rewrite the character's final lines of dialogue to other characters in the film.
“He was one of the greatest actors, I think, of all time and I just think to try to fake a Philip Seymour Hoffman performance would have been catastrophic and I would never want to do that."
Catch Jennifer Lawrence in the beginning of the end in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 which hits theaters November 21.
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