The casting process was still fucked up, though, because at the very least Katniss is meant to be racially ambiguous (and yet I've come across so many idiots insisting that, yes, she's explicitly white in the books....no, no she's not). Even Suzanne Collins has said as much. And yet the casting call only asked for white girls. So it wasn't a definite case of whitewashing, but it was still gross. Collins defended/handwaved the whole thing, but that was just her showing her ass as a clueless white woman.