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‘The Hunger Games’ Has Found the Lead for the Upcoming Prequel · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest, the upcoming Hunger Games prequel,
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Speaker 1: The Ballot of Songbirds and Snakes has found their star,
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Speaker 1: and much like the original films, they've opted a cast
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Speaker 1: the relative newcomer Tom Blite. Tom's best known for playing
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Speaker 1: the legendary outlaw Billy the Kid in the epic show
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Speaker 1: of the same name and for a key role in
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Speaker 1: HBO's period show The Gilded Age, but the opportunity to
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Speaker 1: play a younger version of the Hunger Games primary villain
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Speaker 1: cor Leo Lane Snow is by far the biggest break
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Speaker 1: of his career. The director, Francis Lawrence expressed why the
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Speaker 1: twenty seven year old UK actor felt like the right
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Speaker 1: choice for the film's most important role, saying in a statement,
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Speaker 1: cor le Lanes Snow is many things. A survivor, a
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Speaker 1: loyal friend to cut throat, a quick kid to fall
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Speaker 1: in love, and a young man ambitious to his core.
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Speaker 1: Tom's take on the character in his auditions showed us
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Speaker 1: all the complex ambiguities of this young man as he
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Speaker 1: transforms into the tyrant he would become. The Ballot of
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Speaker 1: Songbirds and Snakes hits theaters in November. That's Direct from Hollywood,