The Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence previews Lucy Gray’s fight in the Hunger Games prequel.

Lucy Gray Baird, Lawrence said, is the “anti-Katniss.”

“Katniss was an introvert and a survivor,” the director said in the latest issue ofEmpire.

The hunger games: the ballad of songbirds and snakes' director francis lawrence calls lucy the ‘anti-katniss’

Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.Lionsgate Movies/YouTube

“She was quite quiet and stoic, you could almost say [she was] asexual.

Lucy Gray is the opposite.

She wears her sexuality on her sleeve, [and] she really is a performer.”

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in ‘The Hunger Games’

Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss in ‘The Hunger Games’.Murray Close/Lionsgate

“She loves crowds,” Lawrence added.

“She knows how to play crowds and manipulate people.”

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakesarrives in theaters Nov. 17.

Watch the trailer embedded above.

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