It appears as though Amandla Stenberg has a lot going on at the moment – what with that little film The Hunger Games coming out in March, as well as a lead role as the younger Zoe Saldana in Colombiana.
Stenberg plays ‘Rue’ in director Gary Ross’ film adaptation of Suzanne Collins book The Hunger Games, where children are forced to fight to the death in a post-apocalyptic world. Luckily for Stenberg, her training on both films helped her perfect the roles.
She traveled to Mexico, Chicago, and New Orleans for Colombiana, and learned some crazy jumping skills, studying under David Belle; the founder of the climbing and jumping based training known as ‘Parkour’. For the record, I Parkour everywhere, and it’s amazing. Even saying it is fun. I highly recommend it.
“We worked on Parkour, running, jumping, climbing…and he’s the creator of Parkour, so I was really honored.”
On the set of The Hunger Games, she said that the entire cast really bonded and she was happy to use her acquired skills. She said that the group, being such a large cast of teens, hung out together and the whole experience was “similar to being in camp”.
If that’s what camps like, sign me up. PARKOUR!!!
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