‘Starvation Video games’ director Francis Lawrence calls Katniss ‘asexual’ and Lucy her ‘reverse’
Los Angeles: ‘Starvation Video games’ director Francis Lawrence says the character of protagonist Katniss Everdeen is “asexual”, whereas Lucy Grey “wears her sexuality on her sleeve.”
In an interview with Empire Journal, Lawrence, who’s equipped for his new prequel movie, ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’, stated: “Katniss was an introvert and a survivor.”
He went on so as to add that Katniss being a survivor is without doubt one of the largest causes for the distinction between Katniss and Lucy, studies Selection.
“She was fairly quiet and stoic, you possibly can nearly say (she was) asexual. Lucy Grey is the alternative. She wears her sexuality on her sleeve. She actually is a performer.”
The 52-year-old filmmaker known as Lucy’s character as a giant extrovert with highly effective social expertise: “She loves crowds. She is aware of how you can play crowds and manipulate folks.”
Katniss has all the time been the warrior who needed to alter to the world of taking part in politics of the Starvation Video games and the Capital, whereas Lucy is a precise reverse with a penchant for bending issues to her personal will.
‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ is ready greater than 60 years earlier than the occasions of ‘The Starvation Video games’. As such, Jennifer Lawrence received’t be doing her iconic portrayal of Katniss and can function Rachel Zegler as Lucy Grey, whereas Tom Blythe will play Coriolanus “Coryo” Snow.
Zegler and Blyth are joined in ‘The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ by Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman and Viola Davis.
The film relies on the 2020 novel of the identical title by Suzanne Collins, writer of the unique ‘Starvation Video games’ guide trilogy. ‘The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes’ will premiere in theatres on November 17, 2023.
