"The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" goes back in time to follow the 10th annual Hunger Games where a very different District 12 tribute from Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen takes to the arena. Rachel Zegler’s Lucy Gray Baird is a natural performer who has a talent for singing. It’s safe to say she’s the “songbird” in the title, but how was the singing accomplished on the set.
When CinemaBlend attended "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" press conference in Los Angeles, Rachel Zegler discussed how singing worked on set.
When CinemaBlend attended "The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes" press conference in Los Angeles, Rachel Zegler discussed how singing worked on set.
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00:00It was kind of my choice to sing live on set. I had done it before on my first film and and I feel really confident in that sphere of performance in general that that was what I was, I kind of came out of the womb doing on stage so getting to do that for my peers and and on set for my crew and the creative team was something really special that I felt like I could bring to the table.
00:24When you're working on sets like that or when you're even watching movies it kind of takes you out of the world when all of a sudden somebody starts lip syncing and and it just kind of takes you out of it so I felt really blessed that that Francis and Nina trusted me to do that and and getting to to bring that into the acoustics of the hob or the stage at the reaping and all of the other places I don't want to spoil that that Lucy Gray gets to sing.
00:50It just adds a completely different tone to the scenes and I felt like it was really really important not only to me but also to the character that I would be doing a disservice if I didn't perform live every take and it was it was a lot and it was very strenuous but I trained to do it and I felt really really confident with the outcome and I hope audiences do too.