The Hunger Games fans got a bumper dose of Suzanne Collins's Mockingjay novel thanks to the two-part movie adaptation - but one scene didn't make the translation from book to screen.
Yes, we're talking about 'Everlark' sex, a raunchy love scene between Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark. Director Francis Lawrence has revealed that he didn't want to answers fans' calls to include it in the movie.
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"There are definitely ideas that they come up with that we don't want to do. The 'everlark' sex. Where they want Katniss and Peeta to have sex at the end of the movie, have a sex scene," he told the Los Angeles Times.
"There was no shooting that. These just aren't sexual movies. The romance itself too, nobody actually has time to truly think about romance. It's all sort of situational. It's about comfort and trauma.
"She's not pining over boys. It's not like Twilight. That was all about abstinence and wanting somebody so badly. I get it in stories like that; in this, it just didn't make sense."
Alas, you'll have to wait for the inevitable "gritty and real" Hunger Games reboot for a chance to see Everlark lovin' immortalised on screen.
Watch Sam Claflin discuss his ideas for Hunger Games spinoffs with Digital Spy below:
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