Thats the phase we findRachel Zeglerin.
The first out of the gate for that trio isThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
The role of Lucy Gray Baird is a massive challenge to take on for a number of reasons.
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The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakestakes place 64 years before Katniss volunteers for the 74th Hunger Games.
The 10th Hunger Games is a wholly different spectacle.
The Capitol has yet to develop its hi-tech arena, hovercrafts, and disturbing array of cruel mutts.
However, this year could be different because this time around, the tributes have mentors.
I wanted to be in musical theater.
She began:
I would say movie-wise, I think it was probably Oscar Isaac inInside Llewyn Davis.
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Ten years after the release ofInside Llewyn Davis, Zegler really is getting to dothat.
She considers the role of Lucy Gray inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesher Llewyn Davis.
I was there when the book was released.
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesfollows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) - the last hope for the once-proud Snow family - who is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12 for the 10th Hunger Games. Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will become a songbird or a snake.
I waswaitingfor that book to come out, and was so excited.
I hadnoidea what it was gonna be about.
And when I read it, it just felt like, This is thething.
So she’s got this wile in her eye that I was so excited about.
Like, what kind of person do you have to be to screw him up for that long?
Zegler nails it all inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes.
