Released to theaters in 2012 and originally directed by Jennifer Lawrence, The Hunger Games returns to theaters on November 15 with its fifth opus: The Ballad of the Serpent and The Singer. It’s actually a prequel that takes place 64 years before the first four films in the saga. Francis Lawrence’s feature film focuses on the youth of Coriolanus Snow, who, while still a student, embarks on a journey that will lead him to the presidency of Panem. This opus also explores a turning point in the reconstruction of Panem after the war and the consolidation of its authoritarian regime.
In previous films, Katniss Everdeen’s antagonist Coriolanus Snow was played by Donald Sutherland. In The Ballad of the Snake and the Singer, the public discovers a younger version of the character, this time played by British actor Tom Blythe.
Donald Sutherland “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay: Part 2”
He was only fifteen years old when he started his acting career. He plays a small role in Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood. He then multiplied the number of short films and then landed his first lead role in 2018 in Scott and Sid.
But it was thanks to the small screen that his career really took off, through the TV series Billy The Kid, in which he played the lead role. The series follows the legend of the American West, William “Billy the Kid” Bonney, from his humble roots to his pivotal role in Lincoln’s War. It is also in the Gilded Age credits, set in New York in the 1880s, marked by economic upheaval and great conflict between the ancients and the moderns.
Tom Blythe vs. Rachel Zegler in The Hunger Games: Mockingjay
THE HUNGER GAMES: THE BALLAD OF THE SNAKE AND THE SINGING BIRD He needs to blow up in the eyes of the general public. The actor prepared for the auditions by reading the Susan Collins novel from which the film is based: “As soon as I read the first chapter, I was hooked. Coriolanus is an extremely complex character. He is first a troubled young man fighting for his family before being driven by dark ambitions.”
Producer Nina Jacobson says: “Tom was a revelation. It was very difficult to find the right actor for Coriolanus. It was absolutely essential that he could show his dark side and we also knew that he was likely to lean towards the well. We meet Tom Blyth and we find the sincerity and precision of his playing, we have the feeling, That he can really switch from one side to the other.”
The late Terence Davies finds the actor in The Siegfried Diaries, where he plays Glen Beam Shaw, a friend of the poet Siegfried Sassoon.
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