Lucy Gray Bird is the main character in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Nightingale and the Snake, the prequel to the main saga, and the director explained why she is so different from Katniss.
Based on the novel of the same name. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Nightingale and the Serpent will show a noticeable difference, at least in the director’s opinion, between Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss. The former is the protagonist of the prequel film, which will be released in November, while the latter accompanied the main film and the literary saga. In execution Jennifer Lawrence In four films, Katniss has proven her toughness by fighting the war needed to get rid of President Snow. However, in the prequel, this president does not yet exist, but is merely a young man who meets the tribute from District 12 and falls in love with him. How does the director think Francis LawrenceAre Lucy Gray Baird and Katniss Everdeen different?
‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Nightingale and the Snake’ director explains the most important difference between Katniss and Lucy Gray
It is easy for Francis Lawrence to return to The Hunger Games, given that he has directed almost all of the previous films with Jennifer Lawrence. However, this time Panem is much more backward and the hunger games are even more brutal. The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Nightingale and the Snake takes place approximately 60 years before Katniss’s adventures. Coriolanus Snow he chose the right path and subsequently became the ruthless president of Panem. Youthful love, blossoming in adversity, also contributes to his journey. But wait before you sum it up: Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler) doesn’t look like Katniss at all. Indeed, according to the director, it is more correct to say that the main character of the film The Hunger Games: The Ballad of the Nightingale and the Snake is Anti-Katniss. To the microphones Empirehe told the reason:
Katniss was an introvert and survived. She was quite quiet and stoic, you could say she was asexual. Lucy Gray is the complete opposite. She openly demonstrates her sexuality and is a real artist. He likes to have a crowd in front of him. He knows how to control his audience and manipulate them.
While Katniss is described as the introverted girl who became the face of a revolution she herself led, Lucy Gray is a charismatic singer, her family are traveling entertainers, and she is not afraid of her presence or her feelings, unlike Katniss, who loves her to Pete she always lived with difficulty. Making two main characters so different can only benefit the already formulated plot of The Hunger Games.