For Tom Blyth, attending to work on the brand new star-studded Starvation Video games prequel served as a chance to study and develop by means of the steering of some Hollywood icons.
Blyth, 28, walked the black carpet on the Metrograph cinema in New York Metropolis on Wednesday, for a particular screening of The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, and he spoke with ET about his expertise sharing the display with really gifted, skilled powerhouse performers like Viola Davis, Peter Dinklage and Jason Schwartzman, to call a number of.
“No amount of training can ever prepare you for the kind of skills you learn from watching and working with your idols,” Blyth marveled. “Having Peter and Viola and Jason there to kind of not only watch but absorb from, it couldn’t have been more of a dream for me, as an actor.”
Trying again at his time on set, Blyth mirrored on the teachings every of his idols bestowed upon him throughout their collaboration.
“Viola taught me to kind of play and always find playfulness within the work,” Blyth defined. “Peter taught me to not take the noise too seriously and focus on the acting, and Jason taught me to have a bag of tricks up my sleeves at all times — because that man is endlessly funny.”
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is Blyth’s first main blockbuster/tentpole studio movie, and the expertise is one, it appears, he nonetheless can’t fully wrap his head round.
“I grew up on these films. Like, it’s a big part of movie history for me or modern movie history. So, getting to be part of it, I’m still pinching myself honestly,” Blyth stated. “I always knew I was going to be an actor. It’s been the only thing I ever set my eyes on. And I’m really grateful to be able to do it for a living now, finally. But yeah, doing this particular franchise is kind of unreal.”
“I couldn’t feel more welcomed, and I couldn’t feel more like part of the tribe that is The Hunger Games,” he added with a smile.
In The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — which is about 64 years earlier than the unique Starvation Video games movie — a younger Coriolanus Snow (Blyth) is the final hope for his failing lineage, which has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. He’s assigned to be a mentor to Lucy Grey Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12, within the tenth Starvation Video games.
When her appeal captivates the viewers of Panem, Snow sees a chance to shift their fates and the pair unites to show the percentages of their favor. As Snow battles his instincts for good and evil, he units out on a race towards time to outlive and reveal if he’ll in the end develop into a songbird or a snake.
Nevertheless, they are going to face the villainous machinations of the serpent-loving Head Gamemaster Volumnia Gaul (Viola Davis) and the highly effective forces who look to take care of the ability and worry of the video games.
In the meantime, Dinklage stars as Casca Highbottom, Dean of the Academy of Panem, whereas Schwatzman performs Fortunate Flickerman, the official host of the tenth Starvation Video games. The movie additionally stars Josh Andrés Rivera as Sejanus Plinth, the mentor to a tribute from District 2 and an in depth pal of younger Snow, and Hunter Schafer, who performs Snow’s cousin, Tigris.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes hits theaters Nov. 17.
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