J-Law is like JC: Donald Sutherland compares Jennifer Lawrence to Jesus 

At 24, she already has an Oscar and two Golden Globes to her name, but Jennifer Lawrence has been elevated to even higher levels of approbation after being compared to Jesus and Joan of Arc by her Hunger Games co-star Donald Sutherland.

Sutherland, who has already said he hopes to see the blockbuster science fiction saga spark a new epoch of rebellious youth in America, was speaking to E! Online at the US premiere of The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 1 in Los Angeles.

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“When I worked with her, I realised the child was a genius,” said Sutherland. “She’s the right person at the right time in the sense of Joan of Arc or Jesus Christ, any genius, in that sense.

“She has the ability as an actor to tell the truth out of the material, and that truth is immediately recognisable with everybody because it hits you in your heart, your solar plexus and your mind. And she has the genius of person to be not affected by all of this. She’s just a real girl.”

In Mockingjay Part 1 – released in the UK on 20 November and in the US on 21 November – Lawrence reprises her role as Katniss Everdeen, now leading the rebellion against the evil rulers of the dystopian republic of Panem. Sutherland, 79, plays the nefarious President Snow.

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