
―Caesar Flickerman asking Peeta whom he loves[src]



The Games


Caesar with Katniss for her 74th Hunger Games interview.



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Caesar with Peeta the night of the 74th Hunger Games interviews.

When he interviewed Peeta, the two of them were described as a good team, feeding off of each other and bantering easily. It was to Caesar in this interview that Peeta first revealed his love for Katniss, shocking everyone. The interview was said to have gone down amazingly with the audience.



Caesar announces the 3rd Quarter Quell.


Flickerman during the 74th Victory Tour.

few adjustments so that as she twirled, the dress would morph into a mockingjay outfit. Caesar then interviews Peeta, who claims that he had been unofficially married to Katniss for months and that she is pregnant. While both claims are false, they explain Katniss' sudden "breakdown"
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Katniss and Caesar

and obtain sympathy. This revelation caused the audience to go wild, upstaging all of the other tributes' interviews (as Peeta also did the year before). 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, and 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.


Capture of Peeta Mellark


Caesar interviews Peeta



Against the Rebellion

In The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2, Caesar is featured in a Capitol announcement about the alleged death of Katniss and Squad 451 in a Peacekeeper attack, when actually only Leeg 1 and Leeg 2 were killed. His ultimate fate is not revealed.



Caesar makes Peeta feel at ease.


Capitol Couture Portrait

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Caesar's Capitol Portrait





  • It is unknown whether any particular real-world talk show hosts were inspirational to the character of Caesar Flickerman, though Stanley Tucci did suggest that some existed in a special feature on the Blu-Ray of Catching Fire. It appears that Caesar is a sort of conglomerate of them in general. For example, one might think his last name to be a reference to David Letterman. However, his portrayal is perhaps closer to Leno, which if intentional would mean that Ms. Collins is subtly mocking Jay. His personality seems to resemble Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf, also known as Baghdad Bob. Just as Baghdad Bob lied about Saddam, he lied about Katniss being dead. He has the personality of White House press secretary Sean Spicer who lied about the crowd in Trump's inauguration. Just as Sean was known for lying, so was Caesar. It is highly unlikely that he was based on either one. 
    • Another underrated analysis of the character would be Flickerman's real life alternate, Ri Chun-hee, a North Korean broadcaster known as the "woman in pink". Chun-hee was both the face and voice of propaganda for Kim Jong-un's totalitarian government the same way Flickerman was for President Snow's totalitarian regime. Both are known for being flashy in terms of fashion and seemingly sympathetic and welcoming in terms of personality but menacing considering the figures and ideals they support. In November 2017, Chun-hee was the first to report North Korea's nuclear missile testing, which sent the international society--particularly that of the United States--into a panic. A few years before, she was the first to deliver the news that North Korea's former leader, Kim Jong-il, had died. In the second part of the adaptation of Mockingjay, Flickerman was the first to formally announce the supposed death of Katniss Everdeen. Another interesting parallel between the two would be the fact that Chun-hee was forced to constrain her grief when delivering the news of Jong-il's death while Flickerman had to constrain his sympathy for the tributes during the Quarter Quell special he hosted when the audience stood up to oppose the Hunger Games given Katniss' false pregnancy that Peeta announced.  In the first novel, Katniss notes that she remembers Flickerman hosting the games for a while, and that he had not aged. Chun-hee was also notable for her longtime standing as a broadcaster for the North Korean news network. 
  • Author Suzanne Collins stated in 2011, while the first film was in production, that Caesar survived the rebellion and fall of the Capitol as he was not directly affiliated with Snow.