Francis Lawrence previews the Academy Award winner’s sinister Volumnia Gaul.
“I was like, ‘Wow, you know what?
“She has this gravitas, but she could be playful and quirky and get all of that.
Viola Davis as Volumnia Gaul in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.Murray Close/Lionsgate
It’d be very different for her.
I don’t think we’ve seen her do this kind of thing a lot.”
“I knowobjectivelythe character is, but these characters have to believe in their philosophies.
And so she’s a real believer in a specific philosophy.
That’s why people need to be ruled with an iron fist.”
She’s passionate and this is why she’s trying to rejuvenate the games.
