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Why don't you think she should be Katniss? Not trying to start a fight, I've just heard a lot of different reasons and I'm curious about what yours are.

The book is pretty obvious on how she has a darker complexion than her sister and mother - who are blond and blue eyed (I think about the eyes, but they are blonde).

Katniss is supposed to be olive skinned, dark hair, and grey eyes - and before someone tries to link me to a picture of various white women who fall under that skin tone - she looked similar to her father, who came from a part of district 12 that was treated like crap by the merchant class her mother is from.

As well as only having white actresses audition for the role. Yes, Katniss is at least part white, but they picked the all-American whitest chick in America to play her. I wouldn't have minded nearly as much if it was an open audition and she won (though they probably would have tried to circumvent it and pick a white passing girl with a ~black grandmother or something), but as it stands, she has my vitriol.

I agree with this. I can't go along with the people who think that Katniss was explicitly POC because the people pointing out that "olive skin" describes a lot of white people are right but so many of them go too far and act like it only describes white people. It's completely ambiguous. As such, the casting people definitely shouldn't have limited the casting call to white actors.

Though as much as I think the casting process was fucked up, I still like Jennifer Lawrence.

"The skin grafts still retain a new born baby pinkness. The skin deemed damaged but salvageable looks red, hot and melted in places. Patches of my former self gleam white and pale. I'm like a bizarre patchwork of quilt of skin."

- Mockingjay (Chapter 25. pg 352 of American hardback edition)

Katniss describing her skin after recovering in a hospital. She even calls her own skin "white and pale."

People who still cling that Katniss was some dark skinned young woman should actually read the damn book before commenting. Olive skin doesn't mean dark. It means having a greenish under coloring.

People who still cling that Katniss was some dark skinned young woman should actually read the damn book before commenting. Olive skin doesn't mean dark.

These things I actually acknowledged in the comment you replied to with phrases like "Katniss is at least part white", but there's always one on F!S not reading. Daker complexion =/= dark.

& Since you are probably like the other 90% of F!S and hate tumblr, you probably won't click this;

http://strawberreli.tumblr.com/post/72257175569/bronzedragon-caw-caw-idjits

That tumblr post isn't quite correct. Olive skin, as I've been told, classifies a range of skin colors, from white to dark. It refers to if the skin has greenish-brown undertones. So, yeah, people are actually referring to the green type of olive.

Italian people tend to light olive skin, and Katniss lived in area that had a large italian population, so people tend to think that her dad was probably italian.

You do realize that Mediterranean people are the defacto olive skinned crowd, right?

They're not the only people on earth who can have an olive tone.

Yes, they are. Their skin color is result of an environmental mutation specific to that region of the world.

DA

Pretty much
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mediterranean_race

No but it's the coined term for the skin color of the people from the Mediterranean (European, Southwest Asian and North African) region?

Ahh, I see what you're saying now. Lawrence's casting is still off, but I get your point.

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