He just has a prerequisite question that would require one hell of an answer: Why?
“I liked being part of the series originally because the stories are great,” Lawrence says.
“But what was always gratifying was that they were always about something.
Woody Harrelson as Haymitch Abernathy; Sam Claflin as Finnick Odair in ‘The Hunger Games’.Everett Collection (2)
Suzanne [Collins, franchise author] always writes from a thematic foundation.
The original ones were all about the consequences of war.
[Songbirds and Snakesis] about the state of nature.
Tom Blyth as Coriolanus Snow and Rachel Zegler as Lucy Gray Baird in ‘Hunger Games’ prequel ‘Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.Murray Close/Lionsgate
“If she has something to say, I want to hear it,” Jacobson says.
“I’m fascinated by her perspective.
I will always want to follow her lead.”
Do the Finnick games!'”
But at the time, “Suzanne was done.”
“We didn’t even know she had started another one,” he says.
“[Katniss'] draw to Peeta is this shared trauma,” the director says.
“You go through an experience together and feel more understood by that person than anybody else.
It’s the same here.”
With Coriolanus and Lucy Gray, “There’s this mutual need,” he adds.
“He needs her to win and survive sohewins.
She needs him to help her win and survive soshesurvives.”
But also, it’s complicated.
“There’s manipulation on both sides.”
