{"id":31502,"date":"2022-06-01T03:20:12","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:20:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rachel-zegler-to-star-in-the-hunger-games-prequel\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T03:20:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T03:20:12","slug":"rachel-zegler-to-star-in-the-hunger-games-prequel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rachel-zegler-to-star-in-the-hunger-games-prequel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rachel Zegler to star in the &#8216;Hunger Games&#8217; prequel"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-key=\"article\">\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;West Side Story,&#8221;<!-- --> Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate&#8217;s planned \u201cHunger Games\u201d prequel. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,\u201d an extension of the \u201cHunger Games\u201d saga that takes place decades before the adventures of Jennifer Lawrence&#8217;s Katniss Everdeen.  Katniss played in the 74th Hunger Games;  Baird will be a part of the 10th Hunger Games. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">Suzanne Collins, whose books were adapted into the $ 3 billion blockbuster franchise, in 2020 published a prequel novel upon which \u201cThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes\u201d is based.  In the film, Lucy Gray Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12, sings in a pivotal moment during the reaping ceremony.  Zegler stars opposite Tom Blyth, who plays the 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">\u201cOur casting team, Deb Zane and Dylan Jury, spearheaded an exhaustive search, reading hundreds of actors in search of our perfect Lucy Gray.  That search ended when Rachel Zegler blew the roof off with her di lei depth and breadth of talent as an actor, singer, and performer, \u201dsaid producer Nina Jacobson in a statement.  \u201cRachel is utterly compelling;  just like Lucy Gray, her voice and charisma di lei command the stage while her inner strength and humanity di lei transform those around her. &#8221; <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">Lionsgate is to release the movie in theaters Nov. 17, 2023. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">\u2014-<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-97 Component-p-0-2-88\">This story corrects the name of author Suzanne Collins.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>    .<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW YORK (AP) &#8211; Fresh off her breakthrough role in Steven Spielberg&#8217;s &#8220;West Side Story,&#8221; Rachel Zegler will star in Lionsgate&#8217;s planned \u201cHunger Games\u201d prequel. The studio announced Tuesday that Zegler will play Lucy Gray Baird in \u201cThe Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,\u201d an extension of the \u201cHunger Games\u201d saga that takes &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rachel-zegler-to-star-in-the-hunger-games-prequel\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rachel Zegler to star in the &#8216;Hunger Games&#8217; prequel<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31503,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[10],"tags":[14,11402,15208,13527,15319,216],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/c47e1dfd159847b99521525f7409c031\/3000.jpeg?ssl=1","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/storage.googleapis.com\/afs-prod\/media\/c47e1dfd159847b99521525f7409c031\/3000.jpeg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31502"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31502\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}