How did the tragic death of Philip Seymour Hoffman affect the Hunger Games franchise?

I've never had an actor die during the making of a movie before.  All of the cast and crew were drawn together by the sorrow and shock of losing someone so close to us so suddenly.  Practically, Phil had shot about 80% of his scenes.  What we had to do with the remaining 20% was to give two key scenes to Liz Banks and Woody Harrelson.  In MJ1, Effie gives Katniss Cinna's design for the mockingly uniform instead of Plutarch, as was originally scripted.  In MJ2, Haymitch reads a letter in a scene that, in the book and the original script, takes places between Katniss and Plutarch.  Without a doubt, Phil would be a bigger presence in the movie if he had stayed with us.  I miss him at many levels.

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