Eight-time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close (Fatal Attraction, The Wife) and Emmy-winner Billy Porter (Pose) have joined the ensemble cast of Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
Close will play Drusilla Sickle, the cruel escort to the District 12 Tributes, while Porter will portray Magno Stift, her estranged husband and designer to the Tributes.
They’ll joined the previously announced ensemble of Joseph Zada as Haymitch Abernathy, Whitney Peak, Mckenna Grace, Jesse Plemons, Kelvin Harrison Jr., Maya Hawke, Lili Taylor, Ben Wang, Ralph Fiennes, Elle Fanning and Kieran Culkin.
Based on Suzanne Collins’ novel of the same name, Sunrise on the Reaping will revisit the world of Panem nearly a quarter of a century before the events of the original Hunger Games saga. It starts on the morning of the reaping of the 50th Hunger Games, known as the Second Quarter Quell, in which Haymitch Abernathy enters the deadly arena. In 2012’s Hunger Games, Haymitch serves as a mentor to Jennifer Lawrence’s Katniss Everdeen and Josh Hutcherson’s Peeta Mellark.
Close will appear next in Rian Johnson’s next Knives Out sequel, Wake Up Dead Man. Porter recently made his West End debut as the Emcee in Cabaret and will star in Gurinder Chandha’s upcoming film Christmas Karma.
via: Variety
