Rachel Zegler has weighed in on the relation between her character in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen.
The star of the prequel responded to fan theories that her Lucy Gray Baird could possibly be associated to the archer heroine of the unique motion pictures as they each hail from District 12 and share a musical expertise.
While Zegler shut down the opportunity of “a direct household lineage” between Lucy and Katniss, she revealed she did incorporate a few of Lawrence’s character’s mannerism in some scenes.
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“I favored that we did not actually have a direct household lineage line to Katniss, it is nothing like that,” Zegler informed Total Film.
“We did not need individuals to look at our film and level and go, ‘Oh, she seems to be like Katniss’. I did not need that.
“But there is a specified curtsy within the e-book that she does on the Reaping, however I needed it to be paying homage to Katniss saying, ‘Thank you in your consideration’ when Seneca and the remainder of the Gamemakers actually aren’t listening to her within the coaching. And she additionally does it in Catching Fire as nicely in order that was vital to me, and we type of ran with it.”
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Zegler additionally added a spin, a nod to Katniss’s head-turning flame costume transformation within the first Hunger Games film.
“I additionally added a spin after I bought on stage on the Hob in District 12 due to what number of instances Jennifer Lawrence needed to spin as Katniss to get the costume to flame,” Zegler continued.
“I assumed that was actually vital as nicely [to have] as many nods to her perspective as I may discover. They are actually very totally different characters however I feel there are components of them in one another respectively.”
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes is out now in cinemas.
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