Caesar Flickerman

"Handsome lad like you. There must be some special girl. Come on, what’s her name?"

- Caesar Flickerman asking Peeta whom he loves

Caesar Flickerman is the interviewer for the Hunger Games. He is famous for turning any conversation around for the positive, and is known to change the color of his lips, hair, and eyelids for each Hunger Games.

His Best Scene
...when Caeser asks him if he has a girlfriend back home. Peeta hesitates, then gives an unconvincing shake of his head.

"Handsome lad like you. There most be some special girl. Come on what's her name?" says Caeser.

Peeta sighs. "Well there is this one girl. I've had a crush on her ever since I could remember. But I'm pretty sure she didn't know I was alive until the reaping."

Sounds of sympathy from the crowd. Unrequited love they can relate to.

"She have another fellow?" asks Caeser.

"I dont' know, but a lot of boys like her," says Peeta

"So here's what you do. You win, you go home. She can't turn you down then eh?" says Caeser encouragingly.

"I don't think it's going to work out. Winning . . . won't helpnout in my case," says Peeta.

"Why ever not?" says Caeser, mystified.

Peeta blushes a beet red and stammers out. "Because . . . because . . . she came here with me."

The 74th Hunger Games
In the 74th Hunger Games, he is shown to help tributes in each district with their interviews. This year his hair, lips and eyelids were dyed powder blue. While interviewing Katniss, he helps her a lot by adding things on since Katniss is pretty hopeless in front of the camera. For example, when he asks Katniss what she liked the most since she came to the Capitol, she answered, "The lamb stew." He remarks that he can eat it by buckets. This comment also determines a gift later in the Hunger Games.When he interviewed Peeta the two of them were described as a good team that bantered easily, it was to Caesar in this interview that Peeta first revealed his love for Katniss, shocking everyone including her. The interview was said to have gone down amazingly with the audience. After the Games were over and they had an interview with Katniss and Peeta, he mainly conversed with Peeta since Katniss is not as talented at speaking with people.

The 75th Hunger Games
As he did with the previous Games, Caesar helped the tributes in the 75th Hunger Games with their interviews. He also mentions the wedding during Katniss's interview, as she was wearing her dress. On his request Katniss twirled, which causes the dress to change into a mockingjay outfit-thus supporting the rebellion. Caesar then interviewed Peeta, who claimed that he had been unofficially married to Katniss for months and that she is pregnant. While both claims are false, they explain Katniss's sudden breakdown and obtain sympathy. This revelation caused the audience to go wild, blowing away everyone else's interviews as Peeta also did the year before when he told everyone about his love for Katniss. This also upset the capitol audience enormously because they had grown to love Katniss and Peeta and the thought that they would not both survive after being so close to each other that an unborn baby would probably be killed in the arena overwhelmed them. This resulted in some of them supporting the rebellion, not the Games.

At the end of Caesar's interviews, all of the victors stood and held hands as a show of unity; this influenced the Capitol audience further still.

Mockingjay
In the book Mockingjay, Caesar interviews a tortured Peeta and asks him things like how he feels about the rebels and Katniss being with them. However, this interview ends when Peeta uses the opportunity to warn the rebels of an incoming Capitol attack on District 13.

Personality
Caesar is known for being helpful and brings out the greatest in the tributes. He is also known to like the Capitol's "lamb stew". He thinks of himself as a little on the "tubby" side and loves Katniss' interview dress in the first book and asks her to twirl. Loving the dress begs her to twirl more when she she stops but then turns helpful and helps her into her seat because she is "dizzy".

Description
Caesar has had the same general appearance ever since he began hosting the Hunger Games Interviews over forty years prior to the 75th Hunger Games. He wears a midnight blue suit dotted with a thousand tiny electric bulbs that twinkle like stars. He has had plastic surgery to hide his true age, as many other people in The Capitol do. The only difference in Caesar's appearance is his hair, eyelids and lips, which he colors differently every new Hunger Games.

Caesar's Hunger Games Colors

 * 50th HG - Dark Green was Caesar's color of the year
 * 73rd HG - Caesar's color was Crimson and Katniss said that it made him look like he was bleeding the entire time he was onstage.
 * 74th HG - Powder Blue, which Katniss described as looking freakish
 * 75th HG - Lavender was Caesar's color of the year

Portrayal
Stanley Tucci will be portraying Caesar in the film adaptation of the Hunger Games