Hunger Games Stars Invite Jennifer Lawrence for Drinks

And it is a sentiment shared by Blyth, who performs a youthful model of Panem president Cornelius Snow within the prequel. (Donald Sutherland performs the character within the authentic movies.)

In reality, in a separate interview with E!, the actor praised producers for making “an effort to let this be a second the place we get to expertise it for the primary time” by separating the prequel forged from the OG. 

“It’s such a stand-alone, contemporary film that is not type of a follow-on,” Blyth defined. “I assume they’ve honored that actually sweetly in the way in which that that is type of giving an area to expertise it contemporary.”

Rachel Zegler—whose character Lucy Grey Baird is a District 12 tribute, similar to Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen—famous that she’s considerably glad she finally crossed paths with the No Onerous Emotions star after manufacturing on the prequel had wrapped. “It relieves you of strain,” she shared, “as a result of comparisons are inevitable.”