![]() ![]() But still, we have the whispered stories we tell ourselves in the middle of the night, secrets just for us to hear. ![]() And there will always be people who want to exploit the very things that make us human. The truth is that the things we want can sometimes hurt us desire can morph into destruction. Ultimately, The Starling Girl is not necessarily an indictment of religion, or of Christianity, but rather a meditation on desire, and shame, and the pressures that force those things to be inextricably linked so often in women. In the new film The Starling Girl, 17-year-old Jem Starling (Eliza Scanlen) lives for secret pleasures: worship dances she choreographs for her church, hushed prayers she delivers at her bedside. Parmet describes Scanlen’s strength as an actor as this duality, so present in the prayer scenes: “She has some innocence to her, and sometimes she can look so young and naive, but she also has this dark ferocity and hunger boiling underneath the surface.” “They're sacred moments for her,” Scanlen says. As Jem, Scanlen’s facial expressions often capture the confusion of that - how a prayer can feel reverent and worshipful, and it can also feel like whispering a delicious secret to someone who understands you. The shame informs the pleasure, and vice versa. It’s because of the secrecy of Jem’s coming-of-age, perhaps, that allows her to grow in this specific way. ![]() I remember having conversations with Greta about what she would have done if Beth hadn't gone so soon, and I think she would have pursued her piano playing more … But Beth was always of the belief that her creative skills… she never felt the desire to perform her creative skills to anybody.” If she had been restricted in the way Jem is, with a family who disapproved of her passions, maybe she would have felt that desire more, Scanlen muses. Greta's adaptation of Little Women allowed me more room to explore her creative passions too. Beth, perhaps, would fit most neatly into the world of The Starling Girl. “As I work more, I do notice that I'm drawn to particular stories and I think that inherently they are often female-led and something that all those three have in common is that the female experience is a very big theme,” Scanlen says. The 24-year-old Australian actress is most known for two pivotal career roles: Beth March in Greta Gerwig’s Little Women and Amma Crellin in the HBO limited series Sharp Objects. The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes opens in theaters on November 17.These are themes Scanlen has explored in previous projects. Battling his instincts for both good and evil, Snow sets out on a race against time to survive and reveal if he will ultimately become a songbird or a snake.” With everything he has worked for hanging in the balance, Snow unites with Lucy Gray to turn the odds in their favor. But after Lucy Gray’s charm captivates the audience of Panem, Snow sees an opportunity to shift their fates. With his livelihood threatened, Snow is reluctantly assigned to mentor Lucy Gray Baird (Rachel Zegler), a tribute from the impoverished District 12. In this new film, “…follows a young Coriolanus (Tom Blyth) who is the last hope for his failing lineage, the once-proud Snow family that has fallen from grace in a post-war Capitol. Antonio Campos fatalistic small-town thriller featuring Tom Holland, Robert Pattinson, Riley Keough and Eliza Scanlen streams on Netflix beginning Sept. Based on the prequel novel by Suzanne Collins, this new film stars Tom Blyth, Rachel Zegler, Jason Schwartzman, Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, and Viola Davis. New images from The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes have been released. SeptemLionsgate Releases New Images from ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds And Snakes’ Prior to Trailer Release ![]()
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