'Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes' director Francis Lawrence previews Viola Davis' sinister head gamemaker Volumnia Gaul: 'She truly believes that at our core, humans are savage.'
"It was a piece of fan art, and somebody had photoshopped, I think, an image of her standing by a window," Lawrence recalls. "It may be a still from, but she had this sort of sinister little smile and they had made mocked up a fake horror poster as if she was the villain in this."
"I was like, 'Wow, you know what? She may be really good for this,'" he says of his reaction to the meme . "She has this gravitas, but she could be playful and quirky and get all of that. It'd be very different for her. I don't think we've seen her do this kind of thing a lot." As head gamemaker of the 10th annual Hunger Games, Gaul — a former educator who also happened to teach Snow's late father during his schooling days — serves as an adversary of sorts to the young Snow. "We wanted to create a very different kind of character in terms of powerful women in these stories," Lawrence says. Whereas
's rebellion boss Alma Coin was a leader corrupted by power, Gaul is a "very strong believer in a specific philosophy and is grooming Snow in that direction," he says.Viola Davis as Volumnia Gaul in 'The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes'Gaul very much has a "sinister underpinning," according to the director, but Lawrence has never been one to view his antagonists as villains.
"So if that's somebody that believes those things," Lawrence adds, "then they create the things they create. She's passionate and this is why she's trying to rejuvenate the games. The slightly twisted thing is that she finds joy and creativity in designing the games and making them more entertaining, so she's truly the first real gamemaker to think outside the box.
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