The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
10:30 pm - 12:55 am, Sunday, April 5 on BBC One London (1)
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About this Broadcast
Coriolanus Snow, a young man who will go on to become the tyrannical ruler of the Panem civilisation, is assigned to mentor a contender in the 10th ritual games. He finds himself torn between his feelings for his protegee and the opportunity to turn his family's failing fortunes around. Sci-fi adventure prequel, with Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Viola Davis and Peter Dinklage
2023
HD
subtitles
16x9
premiere
Adventure
Literary Adaptation
Movie/Drama
Romance
Science Fiction
Cast & Crew
Tom Blyth
(Actor)
.. Coriolanus Snow
Rachel Zegler
(Actor)
.. Lucy Gray Baird
Viola Davis
(Actor)
.. Dr Volumnia Gaul
Peter Dinklage
(Actor)
.. Dean Casca Highbottom
Hunter Schafer
(Actor)
.. Tigris
Jason Schwartzman
(Actor)
.. Lucky Flickerman
Burn Gorman
(Actor)
.. Cdr Hoff
Fionnula Flanagan
(Actor)
.. Grandma'am
Francis Lawrence
(Director)
More Information
Did You Know..
Tom Blyth
(Actor)
.. Coriolanus Snow
Rachel Zegler
(Actor)
.. Lucy Gray Baird
Viola Davis
(Actor)
.. Dr Volumnia Gaul
Born:
August 11, 1965
in
St Matthews, South Carolina
Best Known For:
Doubt and The Help.
Early-life:
Viola was born in St Matthews, South Carolina, on August 11, 1965 to Dan and Mary. Her family moved to Central Falls, Rhode Island two months after she was born. She studied theatre at Rhode Island College and went on to attend the Juilliard School in New York. Her screen debut was a small role as a nurse in The Substance of Fire (1996).
Career:
Davis had guest roles in a number of TV shows before landing a part in short-lived medical drama City of Angels. Her career received a boost in 2001 when she won a Tony Award for her work on Broadway in King Hedley II. She won a second Tony award in 2010 for her role in Fences. Two years earlier, she starred on the big screen in Doubt (2008), a role that garnished her an Oscar nomination. She received her second Oscar nomination for her performance in The Help (2011). More recently, she has starred in Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011), Prisoners (2013) and Ender's Game (2013).
Quote:
'We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.'
Trivia:
In 2012, she was voted one of Time magazine's 100 most influential people in the world.
Peter Dinklage
(Actor)
.. Dean Casca Highbottom
Born:
June 11, 1969
in
Morristown, New Jersey
Best Known For:
Playing Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones.
Early-life:
Peter Hayden Dinklage was born in Morristown, New Jersey, on June 11, 1969 to Diane and John. Peter was born with achondroplasia, a form of dwarfism. He made his film debut in Living in Oblivion (1995).
Career:
Dinklage's big break came in the 2003 film The Station Agent. In the same year, he starred alongside Will Ferrell in the seasonal favourite Elf (2003). He went on to have recurring roles on TV in Threshold and Nip/Tuck. His other film credits include Penelope (2006), Death at a Funeral (2007), and X-Men: Days of Future Past (2014). He is best known for playing Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones, a role he has played since 2011.
Quote:
'I was fortunate enough to have an upbringing that made me more accepting of who I am.'
Trivia:
He voiced Captain Gutt in the Ice Age: Continental Drift (2012) and Ghost in the video game Destiny.
Hunter Schafer
(Actor)
.. Tigris
Jason Schwartzman
(Actor)
.. Lucky Flickerman
Born:
June 26, 1980
in
Los Angeles
Best Known For:
His collaborations with Wes Anderson.
Early-life:
Jason Francesco Schwartzman was born in Los Angeles on June 26, 1980 to Talia and Jack. His uncle is director Francis Ford Coppola. He had no prior acting experience before starring in Wes Anderson's Rushmore (1998). In 2001, he starred in CQ, a film written and directed by his cousin Roman Coppola. A year later, he had a role in Slackers.
Career:
Film roles followed for Schwartzman in I Heart Huckabees (2004) and Shopgirl (2005). He also had a lead role in short-lived sitcom Cracking Up. He teamed up again with Wes Anderson on The Darjeeling Limited (2007). They later worked together on Fantastic Mr Fox (2009), Moonrise Kingdom (2012) and The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014). Schwartzman's other film credits include Marie Antoinette (2006), Funny People (2009), Scott Pilgrim vs the World (2010) and Saving Mr Banks (2013). He played the lead role in HBO comedy drama Bored to Death for three seasons.
Quote:
'Dating is just awkward moments and one person wants more than the other. It's just that constant strangeness. I think it's a very real thing.'
Trivia:
He formed the band Phantom Planet when he was 14.
Burn Gorman
(Actor)
.. Cdr Hoff
Fionnula Flanagan
(Actor)
.. Grandma'am
Born:
December 10, 1941
in
Dublin, Ireland
Best Known For:
Playing Martha Bellison in The Invention of Lying.
Early-life:
Fionnghuala Manon Flanagan was born on December 10, 1941 in Dublin, Ireland. Her parents were Rosanna and Irish Army officer Terence Niall. She grew up speaking English and Irish as her parents wanted her and her four siblings to learn Irish, even though they did not speak the language themselves. Fionnula was educated in England and Switzerland. She trained at Abbey Theatre in Dublin and travelled Europe before moving to Los Angeles, California, United States in 1968.
Career:
Flanagan's acting breakthrough in Ireland was in the Irish language play An Triail. She made her Broadway debut in 1968 in Brian Friel's Lovers. Flanagan is known for her interpretations of works by the author James Joyce, having played Gerty McDowell in the film version of Ulysses (1967), all six main female roles in the film adaptation of James Joyce's Women (1985) and theatrical productions of Ulysses in Nighttown and Women. Flanagan has appeared on many American TV shows and TV films, including The Ewok Adventure (1984), How the West Was Won, Murder, She Wrote and Rich Man, Poor Man. She has made a number of big screen appearances, including in The Others (2001), Four Brothers (2005), Transamerica (2005), Yes Man (2008) and The Invention of Lying (2009). Between 2006 and 2008, she played Rose Caffee in the American TV drama Brotherhood. More recently, she appeared in the spin-off of EastEnders, Redwater.
Quote:
'People think we are such great talkers, but there is so much silence in Ireland about certain issues.'
Trivia:
She won an Emmy award in 1976 for her performance in Rich Man, Poor Man.
Francis Lawrence
(Director)
