Starvation Video games actress says extra folks ought to ‘become revolutionaries’ like her character Effie, doesn’t perceive white feminine Trump voters

Elizabeth Banks played Effie Trinket in “The Hunger Games” and believes that more Americans should be like that character, who she calls a “revolutionary.” Banks spoke to Bustle’s “One Nightstand” podcast and made the remarks, saying “I wish more of us were becoming revolutionaries. Effie is the model, guys, she’s the model.”

“I don’t understand the 53 percent of white ladies that didn’t vote for Kamala. What were they thinking?” Banks said.

Banks described the character arc of Effie, saying “Effie, for me, is one of the characters that has the greatest arc I’ve ever played, because obviously she props up this fascist regime that she benefits from, and it’s not until she realizes who, you know, really comes to care for and see how unfair it is when they want to pull Katniss and Peeta into the Games again. Like, that’s not the deal here, and it’s not supposed to be like this. And now, she’s like, ‘wait a minute, hold on.'”

The character is a tool of a fascist Capitol ruling party and class who forces working class kids to fight each other to the death for the entertainment of that ruling class. Effie participates in this practice gleefully until the rules of the already barbaric practice are broken and the brutality is increased. It’s only at that point, years into her career with the Games, that she seeks to aid the participants in the Game to escape it.

“You really see her struggling,” Banks says of the character’s transformation, “and by the end she’s like a revolutionary. She gets turned by the events of it. And I think that’s, I wish more of us were becoming revolutionaries. Effie is the model, guys, she’s the model.”

She linked that to voting for Kamala Harris during the 2024 presidential election. “I don’t understand the 53 percent of white ladies that didn’t vote for Kamala. What were you thinking?” she said.