Hunger Games Cast Does Entertainment Weekly!

It's been QUITE a day for Hunger Games fans!

Earlier today, we saw the new, super emotional HG tv spot…and we were pret-ty impressed.

Now, we've gotten a first look at the cover of this week's EW magazine (above), and we've got some behind-the-scenes blurbs from members of the cast/crew!

Here's what director Gary Ross had to say about the violence level of The Hunger Games:

"Is it violent? Yes. Do we back off from what it is? No, we don't."

And here's what Lenny Kravitz/Cinna had to say about working with Jennifer Lawrence, who was already friends with his daughter Zoe:

"I love that girl. The minute I met her she became a part of the family."

And here's Woody Harrelson/Haymitch Abernathy on initially turning down his role in HG:

"Listen, I’m nuts. It was just a stupid thing where I hadn’t read the books yet. I didn’t see that there was enough for me to do in the script. But then Gary called me back and said 'You got to do this, I don't have a second choice for the role.' And of course flattery always gets the best of me so I read the books and really saw the depths of this guy. Holy s—, I would have been bummed to miss this."

All very insightful! Makes us EVEN more excited to see this movie sixteen times in a row when it comes out on the 23rd! Ha!

Tags: entertainment weekly, ew, gary ross, jennifer lawrence, lenny kravitz, the hunger games, woody harrelson, zoe kravitz