The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 adds True Blood's Michelle Forbes to its cast of District 13 rebels.
Despite having already begun extensive production on the back-to-back shoots of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay films, casting still continues for the highly anticipated Young Adult franchise two-part closer. And as reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Lionsgate has added a new name to the anticipated film: Michelle Forbes will play Lieutenant Jackson in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2.
Forbes is probably best known for her role on Battlestar Galactica, another future-set series about a world (or universe) at war. However, she also has fan credentials for playing MaryAnn in the first two seasons of True Blood, the demi-goddess baddie that brought vampires and humans alike to heel in Season 2.
Lieutenant Jackson is a rebel leader from the much talked about, mysterious District 13 in Panem and will help fight the revolution against President Snow in the fourth and final Hunger Games movie.
The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1 adapts the first half of Suzanne Collins' book and boasts the cast of Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Phillip Seymour Hoffman, Jeffrey Wright, Natalie Dormer, Julianne Moore, Stanley Stucci and Donald Sutherland.
In the future Katniss Everdeen (Lawrence) must fight for her impoverished District 12 in a dystopian North American regime called “Panem.” After several Hunger Games, contests to the death between children, go awry, Katniss finds herself participating in a massive rebellion against the authoritarian government.
Directed by The Hunger Games: Catching Fire helmer Francis Lawrence, both Mockingjay films are being shot concurrently and are scheduled for a Thanksgiving release in November 2014 and 2015, respectively.
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