The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes
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Summary
Rachel Zegler weigh in on the theories surrounding Lucy Gray Baird ’s fate afterThe Hunger Games : The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . The movie is based on Suzanne Collin ’s novel of the same name and act as a prequel to the originalHunger Gamestrilogy and conform to a new Coriolanus Snow ( Tom Blythe ) as he gets his first whiff of the Capitol and Games while mentoring District 12 tribute Baird ( Zegler ) . Like the book , though , the moving picture terminate with some unanswered questions , including the circumstances of Baird as the mistrust between her and Snow leads to him shoot at her as she flees , though her body is never discovered .
In an audience withHarper ’s Bazaar , Zegler addressesThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes ' ambiguous ending . The star specifically look to Lucy ’s ultimate destiny , expressing her belief that the District 12 tribute is " free " by the end of the pic and sharing her Hope for Collins to bid a more concrete answer in the future . ascertain out Zegler ’s assertion below :
Lucy Gray ’s main goal throughout the pic is survival . She ’s surviving her fellow tributes , surviving Snow , and live herself . There ’s a point when I think she realizes she ’s taken a wrong turn , and we see her wince a act at Coriolanus touching her mentum … those are the moments of sobriety . Those are the moments when she wakes up from her own performance and realizes it ’s do or go bad . I always think about what happens to my characters while the credit roll for audiences . When it comes to Lucy Gray , I like to think she ’s destitute . I desire one day I ’ll get to hear that from Suzanne , though .
What Really Happened to Lucy Gray Baird?
Unfortunately , no one truly fuck what happened toBaird afterThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes . Collins has never good answered the question of her fate , however , that has n’t stop theories from arising . One of the most common theory is the opposite of Zegler ’s , in which there is a opening that Snow did succeed in kill Baird , and that ’s why no trace of her seemed to have ever been found . Though Snow thinks she learn Lucy singing , the nearby Jabberjays could ’ve been mimic her telling after she ’d already pass . There ’s a chance she was fatally wounded but managed to get to a place of concealing before succumbing to her wounds .
Baird ’s destruction would make thing less complicated , as it would explain how she evaded discovery from Snow and the powerful Capitol . However , others deal Zegler ’s perspective that she survive , with the worker making an first-class full stop that the whole write up track how Baird is a survivor who overcame enormous betting odds to win the Hunger Games . As such , it seems unlikely she ’d go out so easy . Still , that raises the query of where she go after escapingSnow inThe Ballad of the Songbirds and Snakes .
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesdirector Francis Lawrence also seems to share Zegler ’s possibility that Baird survived , suggesting she could be plug in toThe Hunger Gamestrilogy .
There are some theory that she take to the woods and went to District 13 , which live in secrecy due to a peace treaty with the Capitol . One possibility even submit that she may have married in District 13 and been the mother of President Coin , who seemed to have a personal vendetta against Snow . Another theory is that she is Katniss ' paternal grandmother , though it ’s more probable Maude Ivory is the link between the Covey and Katniss . It ’s unclear what find to Baird inThe Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes , but maybe viewers are n’t supposed to have it away , so she can always continue Snow ’s sluttish end .
Source : Harper ’s Bazaar
