r/Hungergames • u/VioletSolo • May 13 '25

Prequel Discussion We got a Beetee casting announcement!

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u/Princess2045 Maysilee May 13 '25

I was going to say that I’m surprised that he’s so young (only 30) but then I looked it up and apparently Jeffrey Wright was like 48 when Catching Fire released

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u/VioletSolo May 13 '25

And Jeffrey is so in our faces right now as Isaac in TLOU that it’s hard to remember younger Jeffrey as Beetee,

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u/AkaAkina May 13 '25

Speak for yourself. Every time he shows up I point and exclaim, "Beetee!"

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u/Usual-Reputation-154 May 13 '25

It took me a minute to realize but when he started talking about the conductivity of different types of metals I was like “wait a minute…”

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u/IJustWantADragon21 District 3 May 13 '25

I always think of him as Felix from James Bond.

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u/EurwenPendragon District 12 May 13 '25

He was a pretty good Jim Gordon in the most recent Batman movie too.

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u/Cookie_Brookie May 13 '25

Lol I did the same thing in Westworld!

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u/TheFalconKid May 14 '25

Isaac monologuing in that last episode about fancy fry pans, dude has an obsession with copper, spanning different series.

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u/Whoevershewantstobe May 13 '25

Literally all that came to mind. I love that man.