Hunger Games director talks about why Katniss and Peeta didn't have a sex scene in Mockingjay
'It's not like Twilight'
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Even though the third part Suzanne Collins's Hunger Games trilogy, Mockingjay, was split in two, one scene was omitted from the films - the infamous sex scene between Peeta and Katniss at the end of the novel.
There were, of course, hundreds of fans who wanted to see the pair do the dirty on screen.
But, as director Francis Lawrence quickly made apparent, there was to be no such scene, just a slight implication.
So why didn’t he want to include the scene fans were longing for? "There are definitely ideas that [fans] come up with that we don't want to do,” he told Los Angeles Times. “The 'everlark' sex. Where they want Katniss and Peeta to have sex at the end of the movie, have a sex scene.
"There was no shooting that. These just aren't sexual movies. The romance itself too, nobody actually has time to truly think about romance. It's all sort of situational.
“It's about comfort and trauma. She's not pining over boys. It's not like Twilight. That was all about abstinence and wanting somebody so badly. I get it in stories like that; in this, it just didn't make sense."
So there you go, if you want that kind of romance, go watch Twilight. Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2 is in cinemas now.
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