The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
Summary
The Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesdirector Francis Lawrence addresses theory regarding Lucy Gray , revealing that she could be connected to aMockingjaycharacter . ground on the Bible by writer Suzanne Collins , the new prequel film takes lieu more than 60 eld before the events ofThe Hunger Games , chronicle the designate relationship between a young Coriolanus Snow ( Tom Blyth ) andRachel Zegler ’s Lucy Gray Baird . Lucy stay on a middling mysterious character in Collins ' novel , and possibility have long swirled over whether she is related to other theatrical role fromThe Hunger Gamesuniverse .
" I ’ve get a line both theories . Lucy Gray , I can say , is definitely not a congeneric of Katniss . I can say without unadulterated certainty that I do cogitate that Maude Ivory is think to be sort of an ancestor . Without any sorting of spoiler — because Lucy Gray sort of continue a mystery at the end — connectedness to 13 , to Coin ? Sure . I do n’t think she is Coin , by any means . I do n’t desire to spoil it because obviously there ’s secret to Lucy Gray . "
Maude Ivory Baird ( Vaughan Reilly ) is a member of the Covey that eventually wee-wee its way to District 12 inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , and one theory posit that she is Katniss ' grandmother .
Why The Lucy Gray Baird Mystery Should Be Kept Alive
Sometimes , part of why a character is so interesting or entertaining is because they defend an aura of mystery . Without delving too far into spoiler territorial dominion for Collins ' source material , Lucy Gray ’s connection to the original events and characters ofThe Hunger Gamesis left somewhat open - complete , and there is a point of equivocalness to herThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesendingas well .
This sense of secret is part of what makes Lucy a compelling protagonist . While Katniss ’s story is mostly barren from equivocalness and mystery , Lucy bring some shades of gray – no wordplay mean – to the largerHunger Gamesstory . This is especially dead on target because a central constituent of the prequel ’s story is her romantic relationship with Snow , who finally goes on to become a ruthless authoritarian and the primaryHunger Gamesvillain .
The fact that Lucy Gray may or not be related to existingHunger Gamescharacters is also good news for the enfranchisement ’s future . Zegler ’s performance as Lucy has been play up in the reviews forThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesas a major high point , and it bodes well for succeeding installments if new characters can come up and go without needs being at once connected to existing ones .
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