Glenn Close volunteered as tribute.
On Thursday, audiences got their first look at the actress, 78, as Drusilla Sickle in “The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.”
In the trailer, Close is unrecognizable with fake, bright white teeth, thin eyebrows and facial prosthetics. She also dons an orange bob, fake lashes, and bright red lipstick.
The Oscar nominee plays a Hunger Games official, who picks from a lottery which children will fight to the death in Panem’s District 12.
“Twice the tributes,” Drusilla tells the crowd. “Twice the glory.”
The film serves as a sequel to 2023’s “The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes,” and a prequel to the 2012 hit movie “Hunger Games.”
“Sunrise on the Reaping” also features Jesse Plemons, Ralph Fiennes, Kieran Culkin, Elle Fanning, Mckenna Grace, Maya Hawke, Whitney Peak and Kelvin Harrison Jr.
The new project “revisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada) twenty-four years before the events of ‘The Hunger Games,’ starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell,” per the synopsis.
“I just think of character stuff as really fun,” Close shared with Entertainment Tonight last month. “I’m doing ‘The Hunger Games’ now and that’s another amazing collaboration I’m having fun with.”
She described the film as “huge” while chatting with Variety, adding, “There’s all these extras and helicopters and chariots and horses.”
Close’s role comes on the heels of starring in the critically panned “All’s Fair” alongside Kim Kardashian, Niecy Nash, Teyana Taylor, Naomi Watts and Sarah Paulson.
“I swear to God, I’ve seen all nine episodes and it’s pretty f–king good,” she told The Guardian after negative reviews. “It is what it is: it’s juicy and outrageous at times and touching.”
The star made a point to gush over what it was like working with Kardashian, too.
“She’s lovely,” Close added. “And very smart. Very, very conscientious with her kids. When we were filming, she was going through working towards her law degree, and near the end, she would have flashcards.”
“She now has her law degree, and I asked her: Are you going to practice? And she said: No, I just want it in my back pocket.”
The series director Anthony Hemingway also defended the show.
“You’re not going to please everybody,” he told The Hollywood Reporter earlier this month. “You may have certain criticisms, while there are a million others who love it. I think the show holds a mirror up to each person who watches it. It’s just about: Can you connect to it or relate to it, and see yourself?”
He added, “It may be out of your league, it may not be anything you can connect to, and I think that goes for anything that gets presented on screen.”
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