Photo: Jeff Vespa/Getty
Fortunately for Banks, she had a hand in keeping cool while filming, thanks to co-starJennifer Lawrence.
Murray Close/Lionsgate
“Catching Fire,I wore the butterfly dress, which was actually feathers, it was 110 degrees, and Jen Lawrence actually held the fan up into my dress,” Banks, 48, toldDrew Barrymoreon the Thursday episode ofThe Drew Barrymore Show, during Barrymore’s “favorite game,” Behind the Scenes.
“The nails [were] the worst part. I had these huge bejeweled nails. You can’t undo a button,” she said on the show. “I couldn’t use my Blackberry. The biggest problem was I couldn’t go to the bathroom. I had like, ladies in waiting… and I would stop drinking water. I felt so bad about bringing people to the bathroom with me.”
Never miss a story — sign up forPEOPLE’s free weekly newsletterto get the biggest news of the week delivered to your inbox every Friday.
She went on to say that her “ladies in waiting” had to not only hand her the toilet paper when she went to the bathroom, but they had to totally unzip her costume because her skirts had to go down rather than up.
“You would think you could hike it up but no — they were too tight. I couldn’t get them over these thighs. They all had to go down and up and unzip and button. I had these undergarments holding it all together and very constricting… Good times, good times,” she said.
Banks' costumes as Effie have stood the test of time, though, and evenLil Nas X seems to be a fan. For his “Montero” video last year, he wore an outfit reminiscent of Effie.
Banks posted a photo to Instagram of herself in costume as the fashion-forward character, next to one ofLil Nas Xin a similar steampunk Victorian look from the video. “Honestly, thrilled. @lilnasx you do you #montero,” she wrote in the caption.
source: people.com
