“She’s one of the more authentic people I’ve ever personally met,” the filmmaker says.
They’re putting on this Capitol effect, and it’s just so phony," he laments.
“Hunter came in and did the scene, and she was so endearing and warm.”
Hunter Schafer as Tigris in ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’.Murray Close/Lionsgate
That warmth was integral to the story.
“Their bond is so warm and she’s so full of hope,” Lawrence says.
“[Tigris] is trying to draw [Coriolanus] into goodness and keep him in goodness.”
Eugenie Bondurant as Tigris in ‘The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2’.Lionsgate
The prequel helps contextualize the falling out between the two.
Her cousin, of course, doesn’t harbor the same sympathies in the original films.
