Though it may not come as a surprise, today The Hunger Games producer Nina Jacobsen is speaking out on why future films in the franchise won’t be rated R.

The reason is the younger viewers, who’ve read the books and therefore deserve to see the films. She said to Entertainment Weekly:

“Suzanne wrote these books for young people to be able to read them and discuss them and engage with them,” says Jacobson, “and we would never make a version of the movies where they couldn’t participate in. They were the ones that started all of it and I think they deserve to have the movie be made for them to be able to see.”

While she brings up a fair point, we believe the need for a PG-13 rating hurt The Hunger Games a bit. The camera shots during the violent scenes were very shaky to hide clear shots of kids killing kids.