For Rachel Zegler, getting the possibility to star within the hotly anticipated Starvation Video games prequel has been an unimaginable expertise, for a complete host of various causes — not least of all as a result of she acquired to movie the motion epic alongside her boyfriend, Josh Andrés Rivera.
Zegler walked the pink carpet on the premiere of The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes on Monday, on the TCL Chinese language Theater in Hollywood, and he or she spoke with ET’s Ash Crossan concerning the on-set romance.
“It’s the best expertise to go to work and have a well-recognized face that appears like residence,” Zegler mentioned with a smile, “and Josh is my residence, so it was actually, actually pretty.”
ET additionally spoke with Rivera simply forward of Monday’s pink carpet premiere — whereas he acquired dressed for the massive event — and the actor mentioned that it was “actually particular” to share that point along with his ladylove.
“I really feel actually fortunate that I’ve gotten to do these two films and to do it with such an unimaginable individual like her,” mentioned Rivera, who additionally appeared reverse Zegler in 2021’s West Facet Story. “It simply appears like we’re each dwelling the dream! We get to do it collectively… [and I] really feel actually grateful.”
As Zegler basked within the glow of Monday’s huge night time — one of many first main pink carpet premieres since SAG-AFTRA struck a tentative take care of the AMPTP, ostensibly ending the 118-day strike — the 22-year-old actress mentioned she simply felt “very grateful” for all her current profession achievements.
“It is simply loads of thanks-giving,” she mentioned. “I am unable to even imagine it. I am simply very humbled by it.”
Zegler additionally mirrored on her current likelihood encounter with authentic Starvation Video games star Jennifer Lawrence throughout Paris Trend Week, and the way the 2 bonded over working with so lots of the identical individuals.
“[We] talked concerning the individuals we now have in widespread and all the crew that labored on her films [who] got here again to work on ours as nicely,” Zegler shared. “So it was sort of this enjoyable little household reunion for her to appreciate that all of us knew the identical individuals”
In The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — which is ready 64 years earlier than the unique Starvation Video games movie — a younger Coriolanus Snow (Tom 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 (Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12, within the tenth Starvation Video games.
When her allure captivates the viewers of Panem, Snow sees a chance to shift their fates and the pair unites to show the chances of their favor. As Snow battles his instincts for good and evil, he units out on a race in opposition to 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 keep up the ability and concern of the video games.
The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes hits theaters Nov. 17.
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