Watch Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth Swap Harrowing Audition Stories in ‘Off the Cuff’

By now, we hardly need to tell you that Rachel Zegler and Tom Blyth—a.k.a. Lucy Gray and Coryo Snow in The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, the number one movie in the world at the moment—are completely adorable together. Yet the co-stars (and dear friends) doubled down on their very charming chemistry when we paired them for Off the Cuff, a game of rapid-fire questions and fashion-based challenges. 

It all started like this: What was the last song that Zegler listened to? “My hairsylist, Clay, was playing, like, random jazz music. He said it made us feel more sophisticated,” she replies. 

And Blyth? “I was listening to my own, inner thoughts. They were not sophisticated.”

The actors erupt into laughter before tearing through more queries about their daily habits (when he’s in New York, Blyth never leaves the house without his motorcycle key); the things they’ve kept—or wish they’d kept—from film sets (somehow, Zegler didn’t save a thing from West Side Story); and their favorite red-carpet looks from the Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes press tour. Along the way, we learn that Blyth named one of Coryo’s wigs Alphonse; that Zegler’s Dior couture dress at the London premiere paid homage to Katniss at the parade in The Hunger Games: Catching Fire; and that they both pretty much agree on Hunter Schafer being among the most gorgeous people on the planet. (It takes some to know one!)

Zegler, a lifelong musical theater fan, and Blyth, a graduate of Juilliard, also share audition horror stories (one involves an inopportune lunch order; the other, the Jungle Book song “I Wan’na Be like You); iron out the different between “chips” and “fries”; and decide on the greatest movie villain of all time—not counting Donald Sutherland as Coriolanus Snow, of course. Watch the full thing above.

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