SUNRISE ON THE REAPING: Glenn Close and Billy Porter Latest Additions to Expansive Cast
Highlights Glenn Close and Billy Porter are the latest additions to The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping .
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping Close will take on the role of Drusilla Sickle, while Porter will portray her husband, Magno Stift.
The film will take the theater circuit by storm next November. The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping
We've got our Drusilla Sickle and Magno Stift. Acting titans Glenn Close and Billy Porter have boarded The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping , Lionsgate's adaptation of Suzanne Collins' bestselling novel of the same name.
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Close's Drusilla is the escort for the District 12 tributes during the 50th Hunger Games. She will escort Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada), Maysilee Donner (Mckenna Grace), Louella McCoy (Molly McCann) and Wyatt Callow (Ben Wang). Drusilla is mean-spirited in demeanor and quite snobbish.
An eight-time Academy Award nominee, Close's prolific career spans five decades. She's most known for 1987's Fatal Attraction , 2017's The Wife , 2011's Albert Nobbs and the legal thriller series Damages . She's also in the voice cast for Andy Serkis' Animal Farm , which premiered this year.
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Porter's Magno is the stylist for District 12 during the 50th Hunger Games and Drusilla's husband. Magno struggles with addiction. He also no longer pushes the boundaries of artistic innovation, often relying on looks from previous Hunger Games.
A three-time Tony Award winner, Porter is an esteemed Broadway veteran. On the TV front, he's most known for playing Pray Tell in FX's Pose , for which he won an Emmy Award. His voice work includes roles on Prime Video's Fairfax and Netflix's Big Mouth . He can next be seen in Christmas Karma , debuting this year. Additional upcoming credits for Porter include an untitled James Baldwin biopic, starring as the titular writer and civil rights activist.
The rest of the Sunrise on the Reaping cast includes Whitney Peak as Lenore Dove Baird, Jesse Plemons as Plutarch Heavensbee, Kelvin Harrison Jr. as Beetee Latier, Maya Hawke as Wiress, Lili Taylor as Mags Flanagan, Elle Fanning as Effie Trinket, Iona Bell as Lou Lou, Kieran Culkin as Caesar Flickerman and Ralph Fiennes as President Coriolanus Snow. Franchise vet Francis Lawrence will direct from a screenplay by Billy Ray.
The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping hits theaters on November 20, 2026.
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