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Elle Fanning channeled her Hunger Games character at a special London screening of the latest film in the hit YA franchise. 

Fanning plays a young Effie Trinket in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which opens in theaters on November 20. On October 28, she joined her co-stars, including Jesse Plemons, Mckenna Grace, Kieran Culkin, and Joseph Zada, at the Corinthia London hotel to mark the first fan screening of the movie.

Elle Fanning in a pink skirt suit with a white beret
Elle Fanning on October 28 in London | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Lionsgate

For the event, The Great star opted to for a look inspired by Trinket’s over-the-top fashion in the movies. Fanning wore a custom Valentino Couture ensemble, donning a vintage-inspired pale pink skirt suit with ruffled hems and a large white collar. Her coordinating white beret and sheer white gloves were embellished with faux, three-dimensional butterflies. 

Her co-stars were equally stylish. Grace, who plays Maysilee Donner, donned vintage Gucci. Her look was an echo of Lucy Gray’s (Rachel Zegler) rainbow dress from 2023’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes. Joseph Zada, who plays Haymitch Abernathy, wore Tom Ford and Whitney Peak (Lenore Dove Baird) chose Chanel.

'The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping' cast poses for a photo on a purple carpet with the London Eye in the background
Kieran Culkin, Glenn Close, Mckenna Grace, Joseph Zada, Whitney Peak, Elle Fanning, and Jesse Plemons in London on October 28 | Jeff Spicer/Getty Images for Lionsgate
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The latest installment in The Hunger Games series, Sunrise on the Reaping is set 24 years before the events of the first movie. It follows 16-year-old Haymitch Abernathy, a tribute from District 12 in the 50th Annual Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell. These are the biggest Games yet in Panem’s history, with twice as many tributes.

In addition to Haymitch and Effie, the film also features younger versions of several other familiar characters, including Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Culkin as Caesar Flickerman, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee, Lili Taylor as Mags, and Ralph Fiennes as President Snow. 

The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping opens in theaters on November 20. 

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