JLaw joins forces with Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Julianne Moore in a video created by Jeffrey Wright to help fight the health crisis in Africa.
- December 31, 2014
AceShowbiz -
Jennifer Lawrence and her pals from "The Hunger Games" saga lend their voice to raise awareness for health crisis in West Africa. The Oscar winner is joined by Josh Hutcherson, Liam Hemsworth, and Julianne Moore in a video produced by co-star Jeffrey Wright for the Ebola Survival Fund.
"The world is facing the largest Ebola outbreak in history," Wright says. Lawrence adds, "The countries hit hardest are Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone." "What would happen if you got Ebola," Hutcherson asks her, to which she replies, "I'd be fine." "We've got a lot of doctors," he says. "In Liberia, they had 50 doctors for 4.4 million people."
"We were so blind to the differences between the conditions (in the United States) and the conditions (in West Africa) that we thought that the virus could be equally potent here at home," Wright told Entertainment Weekly. "I just found it intensely ignorant, not only of the realities in West Africa, but also enormously lacking in self-awareness about who we are, what we're capable of, and what our privileged position in the world community means."
