"Game of Thrones" star Natalie Dormer, who plays the young queen Margaery Tyrell in the series has done her fair share of shows and films that do not shy away from controversies and violence.
One of these projects is the last installment to "The Hunger Games" franchise, which is "Mockingjay: Part 2." Dormer appreciates her involvement in the franchise because of the brave and honest way it confronted the post apocalyptic future and opened up the eyes of young adults to the horrors of reality.
"I think the Hunger Games is a phenomenon that's rewritten the rule book about what can be commercially viable," she said during an interview with the Telegraph UK.
"It's not condescending, it's not patronising to its young audience. It fully understands that they can process and explore, cathartically, ideas and consequences or war, radical oppression, liberty, human beings struggling with their sense of self-identity, love, loss, sacrifice," she further said. "It doesn't sugar coat any of them."
Dormer stressed the need for Hollywood to stop making movies that distracts audiences from reality. "This overwhelming need that Hollywood has to sugarcoat things to make them more palatable ultimately doesn't help the younger generation who have got so much to deal with," she said.
"They've got so much on their plate, don't lie to them about what the world is really like because it doesn't help them. Give them the opportunity to explore how they handle the future," she then advised.
Meanwhile, the film's director Francis Lawrence said that all of "The Hunger Games" movies tackled violence in its own way, but "Mockingjay: Part 2" is undoubtedly the hardest one to do.
"Each of the movies has been violent in its own way but I knew this one would be the toughest," he said. "In the visual interpretation of the stories, I wanted to make sure we focused on the emotional consequences of it and not the carnage, not the blood. You'll see very little blood: that's not what I want to explore, that's not what I'm interested in."
While making the movies, Lawrence said that they tried to remain faithful to the novels written by Suzanne Collins, all the while never "flinching" from the extreme consequences of war. He hopes that they were able to show that by displaying the trauma and emotional struggles felt by the characters such as Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark after they went home.
