Whitney Peak is opening up about her newly introduced starring position in The Starvation Video games: Dawn on the Reaping.
Suzanne Collins’ Dawn on the Reaping novel was launched this spring and revisits the world of Panem 24 years earlier than the occasions of The Starvation Video games, beginning on the morning of the reaping of the fiftieth Starvation Video games when a youthful Haymitch (portrayed by Woody Harrelson within the authentic movies) competes. Joseph Zada is starring as Haymitch whereas Peak will play Haymitch’s girlfriend, Lenore Dove Baird, within the challenge, which is ready to hit theaters in November 2026.
On the Chanel Tribeca Pageant Girls’s Luncheon in NYC on Friday, Peak instructed The Hollywood Reporter that the final six weeks or so since her casting was introduced have “been a extremely heat welcome. The whole lot occurred actually rapidly, however it is extremely a lot led by a variety of unbelievable girls, and I do really feel very fortunate to be part of it. I believe I’ve been making an attempt to not get too overwhelmed, not give it some thought an excessive amount of till it’s occurring, till we’re in it,” since they haven’t but began filming.
After Rachel Zegler starred within the earlier Starvation Video games prequel, The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes, in 2023, Peak revealed that “Rachel reached out and gave me some love, and I do know that was actually large. It was simply actually unbelievable. The help that got here via was actually pretty. I used to be terrified, to be fully sincere.”
The actress admitted that when she received the audition, “I used to be like, ‘Oh, nicely, I don’t know if I even stand probability of getting this or doing this — if I’m the proper individual for a job.’ I simply saved promoting myself brief and already wrote myself off earlier than I gave myself an opportunity. So getting the half and being let into this world and given the chance has simply been very pivotal to me and my improvement and my self-confidence and my self-worth and my relationship with myself. It’s like, what, yeah, we do belong right here. We are able to hold going. And there’s house for us in every single place.”
Peak beforehand appeared within the Gossip Woman reboot and Hocus Pocus 2 and can subsequent be seen in Sony’s shark thriller Shiver reverse Phoebe Dynevor.