{"id":23307,"date":"2026-04-17T05:02:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/actress-targets-female-trump-voters-urges-them-to-think-like-her-dystopian-character\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T05:02:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T05:02:25","slug":"actress-targets-female-trump-voters-urges-them-to-think-like-her-dystopian-character","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/2026\/04\/17\/actress-targets-female-trump-voters-urges-them-to-think-like-her-dystopian-character\/","title":{"rendered":"Actress Targets Female Trump Voters, Urges Them To Think Like Her Dystopian Character"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"post-body-text\">\n<div class=\"egn3z0n0 css-5a7pfj\" style=\"position:relative\" data-narration-container=\"true\">\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Actress Elizabeth Banks said women in real life, particularly Trump voters, should be more like the character she played in \u201cThe Hunger Games.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">The 52-year-old made the comments during an appearance on Bustle\u2019s \u201cOne Nightstand\u201d podcast this week.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cEffie for me is one of the characters that has the greatest arc that I\u2019ve ever played because obviously she props up this fascist regime that she benefits from and it\u2019s not until she really comes to care for and see how unfair it is when they want to pull Katniss and Peeta into the games again\u2026\u201d Banks said, referencing the plot of the popular films based on the dystopian book series.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"I3nnXnxwt7w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"One Nightstand With Elizabeth Banks | Bustle\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/I3nnXnxwt7w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cI think in \u2018Catching Fire\u2019 when she\u2019s like, \u2018I want to be part of this team,\u2019 and you really see her struggling and then by the end she\u2019s like a revolutionary\u2026 I wish more of us were becoming revolutionaries!\u201d she went on. \u201cEffie is the model, guys! I don\u2019t understand the 53% of white ladies that didn\u2019t vote for Kamala.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Banks played Effie in all four installments of \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d movie franchise between 2012 and 2015. The character is known for being flamboyant and completely devoted to the system at first, but eventually starts doubting their motives after developing relationships with contestants in the fight-to-the-death games that pit human beings against each other.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">Banks is a well-known Democratic supporter and liberal activist who frequently engages in political discourse, shills for abortion access, and takes particular issue with the president. At the 2016 Democratic National Convention, she compared Trump to her over-the-top character in the film series.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight:400\">\u201cSome of you know me from \u2018The Hunger Games,\u2019 in which I play a cruel, out-of-touch reality TV star who wears insane wigs while delivering long-winded speeches to a violent dystopia,\u201d she <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/story\/2016\/07\/dnc-2016-elizabeth-banks-226250\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight:400\">said at the time<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight:400\">. \u201cSo when I tuned in to Cleveland last week I was like hey, that\u2019s my act.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/actress-targets-female-trump-voters-urges-them-to-think-like-her-dystopian-character\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Actress Elizabeth Banks said women in real life, particularly Trump voters, should be more like the character she played in \u201cThe Hunger Games.\u201d The 52-year-old made the comments during an appearance on Bustle\u2019s \u201cOne Nightstand\u201d podcast this week. \u201cEffie for me is one of the characters that has the greatest arc that I\u2019ve ever played [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23308,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-23307","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nationalgunowner.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}