okay because people are making me mad, i have to say, the casting in the films are not, and never will be, book accurate. and the film castings mean nothing in regards to the actual canon characters.
if you need a comprehensive list,
katniss canonically looks nothing like jennifer. she’s meant to be shortish, petite and visibly and unmistakably not white. jennifer on the other hand is very tall, broad and literally one of the whitest people they could have found.
peeta looks nothing like josh. he should have blue eyes, actual curly blonde hair (not that terrible peroxide job) and look like an actual threat. a.k.a not short. like i would never believe jen couldn’t take josh out, easy. how is he supposed to protect her by going back into the arena in the catching fire movie when he’s smaller than everyone but mags?
haymitch is canonically a visible person of color, like katniss. woody’s straight blonde hair and blue eyes looks so incongruent when you know he’s supposed to have come from the same area of twelve as katniss. and yes, that does matter a lot.
lenore dove is meant to a poc. however, she is not supposed to look just like whitney peak. nothing in book canon states she should look like whitney. i don’t dislike the casting at all, especially as opposed to how much i hate movie everlark’s casting, but hating on @little-lynx because her version of lenore dove is a little lighter than whitney and her hair is straight and auburn is ridiculous. the movie castings suck for the most part, just because whitney is one of the better castings doesn’t mean we need to make all fanart look like her. i just read comments of people claiming we need to take movie casting as canon and i will not even pretend that idea doesn’t make my blood boil. that’s disgusting. especially since suzanne pathetically lost all backbone and decided to not put physical descriptions in sotr, which has literally opened us up for horrible interpretations of haymitch being blonde and white. lenore dove is meant to be mixed race, but that easily could look like lynx’s drawings and not whitney.
and furthermore, gale should be a poc too. and so should burdock. the casting in the films is absolutely atrocious and i cannot believe anyone with a brain could ever even slightly defend them. they literally destroyed the movies with those castings so the idea of getting mad that lenore dove is depicted in fanart as a mixed race girl who looks different from the film casting while simultaneously defending the absolute white washing of katniss, haymitch and gale is mind boggling.