Other mentors include Max Raphael as Festus Creed, Athena Strates as Persephone Price, Zoe Renee as Lysistrata Vickers, Ayomide Adegun as Pliny “Pup” Harrington, Kaitlyn Akinpelumi as Domita Whimsiwick, and Amélie Hoeferle as Vipsania Sickle.Īs for Lucy’s competition, her fellow tributes from the other districts will be played by actors Sofia Sanchez, Irene Boehm, Cooper Dillon, Luna Kuse, Kjell Brutscheidt, and Dimitri Abold. Ashley Liao stars as Clemensia Dovecote, who is noted for being one of Snow’s closest confidantes and for being a mentor to a tribute from District 11, together with Aamer Husain stars as Felix Ravinstill. Jerome Lance will play Marcus, Lucy’s co-tribute from District 12. True to The Hunger Games’ fashion, there will also of course, be several new tributes and volunteers. Producer Nina Jacobson shared with Indie Wire that they always had the Woman King actress in mind for the role.

Davis is set to play Volumnia Gaul, the tenth annual Hunger Games’ villainous head game maker. Of the film’s significantly large ensemble cast, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage’s characters prove to be the most mysterious. Jason Schwartzman has been confirmed to be playing host Lucretius “Lucky” Flickerman, an ancestor of Stanley Tucci’s Caesar Flickerman from the original franchise. Joining them are Euphoria’s Hunter Schafer as Tigris, who was also in the first trilogy and played by Eugenie Bondurant. West Side Story’s Rachel Zegler is set to star as Lucy Gray Baird alongside Tom Blyth of The Gilded Age as Snow (who was excellently played by Donald Sutherland in the original films). Who’s in the cast of The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes?Ĭonsidering the significant gap between Songbirds and Snakes and the original trilogy, we can probably expect that Jennifer Lawrence, Josh Hutcherson, and Liam Hemsworth won’t make any cameo appearances, but hey, we can dream. Uniting their instincts for showmanship and newfound political savvy, Snow and Lucy’s race against time to survive will ultimately reveal who is a songbird, and who is a snake.” But, after Lucy commands all of Panem’s attention by defiantly singing during the reaping ceremony, Snow thinks he might be able to turn the odds in their favor.

With the 10th annual Hunger Games fast approaching, the young Snow is alarmed when he is assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, the girl tribute from impoverished District 12. The film’s official synopsis reads as follows: “Years before he would become the president of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. An ambitious orphan, Snow finds potential in Baird, which he uses to both their advantage, eventually leading to his rise as Panem’s infamous leader. The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes takes place during the tenth annual Hunger Games and focuses on a then 18-year-old Corionalus Snow, who is chosen to mentor Lucy Gray Baird, District 12’s tribute.

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