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.

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’.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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