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"We
had to figure out a way to get an audience emotionally invested
in him, to be behind him, to be rooting for him, to empathize
with him," Lawrence told Reuters.
"The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes" arrives in
theaters on Nov. 17 and delves into the origin stories of some
characters from the four previous films. In particular, it
explores President Snow's journey to overseeing the brutal games
in which young people must fight to the death in an arena for an
event called "The Hunger Games."
Like the other films, the Lionsgate prequel is based on a novel
by Suzanne Collins, released in 2020.
"Once we felt like we had the audience behind him, we still had
to seed in layers of his ambition and layers of his greed and
layers of the darkness and layers of his sort of hunger for
power so that when he does turn, it feels honest, it feels
truthful and believable," Lawrence added.
The older version of Snow from the original films was portrayed
by Canadian actor Donald Sutherland and the younger version in
the prequel is played by English actor Tom Blyth.
The cast also includes noteworthy actors Viola Davis as Dr.
Volumnia, Hunter Schafer as Tigris Snow and Peter Dinklage as
Casca Highbottom.
Snow will do anything to succeed, including agreeing to mentor
one of the contestants in The Hunger Games, songstress Lucy Gray
Baird, played by Rachel Zegler.
What starts as coaching Baird in hopes of bolstering his
academic achievements transforms into a sequence of events that
take Snow down a menacing path of betrayal.
(Reporting by Rollo Ross and Danielle Broadway; Editing by Mary
Milliken and Sandra Maler)
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