‘The Starvation Video games’ Star Rachel Zegler Remembers Assembly Jennifer Lawrence Jokingly Wanting To Strangle Her For Picture – Deadline

Rachel Zegler stars in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes and just lately recalled an encounter she had with OG star Jennifer Lawrence.

Whereas making an look on The Kelly Clarkson Present, Zegler opened up about assembly Lawrence throughout the Christian Dior runway present at Paris Vogue Week.

“I didn’t wish to be bizarre. I used to be simply sort of psyching myself as much as discuss to her. She was so unbelievably type,” Zegler stated of being the one forged member of the prequel movie to have met Lawrence.

From that encounter, a photograph of Zegler and Lawrence went viral and the West Facet Story alum defined what was actually occurring within the picture.

“In that clip, [Jennifer is] really saying, ‘Let’s do one other picture the place I’m strangling you and saying you’ll by no means take my half!’ And that’s precisely what I wished from her,” Zegler defined.

The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is a prequel to The Starvation Video games saga and takes place 64 years earlier than Katniss Everdeen volunteered as tribute, and many years earlier than Coriolanus Snow grew to become the tyrannical president of Panem.

Tom Blyth, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Andrés Rivera, Jason Schwartzman and Viola Davis star alongside Zegler.

In accordance with the movie’s official description, the movie “follows a younger Coriolanus (Blyth) who’s the final hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow household that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Along with his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Grey Baird, a tribute from the impoverished District 12.”

Francis Lawrence directs the movie from a screenplay by Michael Lesslie and Michael Arndt, based mostly on the novel by Suzanne Collins, and produced by Nina Jacobson, Brad Simpson, and Francis Lawrence.