
Rachel Zegler and Jennifer Lawrence. Getty Photos (2)
Let the (vogue) video games start!
Rachel Zegler, the star of the upcoming The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes movie, had a enjoyable run-in with OG franchise star Jennifer Lawrence throughout the Christian Dior Spring/Summer time 2024 present at Paris Trend Week on Tuesday, September 26.
Zegler, 22, took to social media to doc the encounter. She posted a video to X of the 2 ladies laughing and posing for photographers, surrounded by the hectic crowd of vogue week attendees.
Zegler captioned the video: “A mom to many. a mom to Me.” She additionally posted the identical video to her Instagram story, writing “She’s precise mom”.
Lawrence is a literal mom to her son Cy, whom she welcomed along with her husband, Cooke Maroney, in spring 2022 and likewise starred within the thriller film Mom! in 2017. However to Zegler, she’ll all the time be Katniss Everdeen.
Zegler’s Starvation Video games spinoff and prequel is because of be launched on November 17 and relies on a ebook of the identical identify written by Suzanne Collins, printed in 2020. The movie follows a teenage Coriolanus Snow, performed by Josh Andrés Rivera, earlier than he turns into the President of Panem, and his mentorship of feminine tribute Lucy Grey Baird (Zegler).
The primary of the 4 films starring Lawrence, 33, Liam Hemsworth and Josh Hutcherson was launched in 2012.
On Tuesday, the 2 actresses sat entrance row and had been joined by a number of different stars on the occasion, together with Charlize Theron, Alexa Chung and Jenna Ortega.
Lawrence has a longstanding relationship with Dior. She landed her first Dior marketing campaign in 2012, the identical 12 months of her breakout position within the first Starvation Video games film. In 2014, Lawrence renewed her model deal for an additional three years for $15 million and has continued to work with them ever since.
Zegler has additionally labored with Dior in recent times. She wore black customized Dior Haute Couture gown to her first Oscars look in 2022.
Whereas Lawrence doesn’t seem within the new Starvation Video games films, she was lately requested whether or not she would ever reprise her position. “Oh, my God – completely!” she instructed Selection in June, including, “If Katniss ever may ever come again into my life, one hundred pc.
In a separate Selection story in December 2022, Lawrence opened up about her struggles starring within the hit franchise and the duty she felt to her followers.
“I bear in mind the largest dialog was ‘How a lot weight are you going to lose?’” Lawrence recalled. “Together with me being younger and rising and never in a position to be on a food regimen, I don’t know if I need the entire ladies who’re going to decorate up as Katniss to really feel like they’ll’t as a result of they’re not a sure weight. And I can’t let that seep into my mind both.”
As for the casting of Zegler, Starvation Video games director Francis Lawrence lately revealed that the actress initially turned down the position of Lucy. “The concept of going from six months in London to go deeper into Europe — into Poland — for an additional six months of her life freaked her out,” Francis, 52, instructed Leisure Weekly in September. It wasn’t till her boyfriend, Rivera, 28, was forged within the film that she determined to tackle the position.
