Actress Elizabeth Banks, who plays Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games, has been busy talking about the film while she promotes other projects.

This latest interview is a good one because she talks about a couple of items we hadn’t heard her discuss before!

Of particular note are her comments on working with Woody Harrelson who plays Haymitch. From the Huffington Post:

I’m excited to see your interaction with Woody Harrelson as Haymitch.

I’m excited for people to see that too. Because we worked really hard — there was not a lot in the script interaction-wise and we made a lot out of that relationship. Our characters really don’t like each other. But we also have to work together, so it’s that push-pull. It’s like any great sort of love affair — there’s a lot of love-hate between us.

Banks also spoke on transforming her appearance for the role and pressure fans may lay on the cast and crew:

You transformed yourself completely to play Laura Bush in 2008’s “W,” and now you’re doing that again for Effie.

A fun part of being an actor and a chameleon is taking on those looks. Effie has a really theatrical, over-the-top, completely not me look to her. I’m very excited for people to see my portrayal. I have no idea if people are going to be into it. I hope they are. I know the filmmakers are and [the book’s author] Suzanne Collins blessed everything we did. It was a really fun collaboration between myself and Academy Award-nominated hair and makeup and costume people.

So many fans are so excited about it; do you feel pressure?

I really don’t. You just can’t. I really don’t want people to be disappointed — I’m a fan of the books myself, so of course I just want to be faithful and do right by her. But I loved Effie. I loved playing it, I loved how it came out, I’m really proud of it, so any of the haters, I’m just going to ignore.