Hunger Games Fancast → Film Cast: Sonja Bennett and Paula Malcomson as Mrs. Everdeen
Slowly, my mother returned to us. She began to clean and cook and preserve some of the food I brought in for winter. [...] Prim was thrilled to have her back, but I kept watching, waiting for her to disappear on us again. I didn’t trust her. And some small gnarled place inside me hated her for her weakness, for her neglect, for the months she had put us through. Prim forgave her, but I had taken a step back from my mother, put up a wall to protect myself from needing her, and nothing was ever the same between us again.
~ Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games
I’m not a fan of the Hunger Games film adaptations, but Mrs. Everdeen was one character whose casting I rather liked (though her depiction, especially in Catching Fire, is another story entirely :P). Anyway, about a year ago I stumbled across Sonja Bennett and was stunned by how much she looked like a younger version of Paula Malcomson - at least, in my humble opinion :) - so I had to make a post setting the two of them side-by-side. (Sorry for repeats/less than ideal pics - there aren’t many to choose from for either actress!)