After attending Beyoncé’s historic Renaissance World Tour earlier this 12 months, is it any shock that Viola Davis was jamming alongside to the music icon’s Billboard 200-topping dance file whereas filming The Starvation Video games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes?
In a Thursday (Nov. 2) behind-the-scenes TikTok posted to the official Lionsgate account, the Academy Award winner releases her wiggle whereas listening to Queen Bey’s “Break My Soul” in full costume and make-up.
As wardrobe staff members are adjusting her hair and make-up, the How one can Get Away With Homicide Actress wiggles her shoulders in time to the pre-chorus and refrain of Beyoncé’s Grammy-winning hit, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Sizzling 100, turning into the primary of two Sizzling 100 prime 10 hits from Renaissance. Within the clip, Davis is in full glam as Dr. Volumnia Gaul, the top gamemaker of the tenth Starvation Video games in The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes.
Davis has continuously expressed her love for Beyoncé, and on the prime of this 12 months, each entertainers made historical past with their respective Grammy victories. With 4 wins for her Renaissance album, Beyoncé formally grew to become the most-awarded act in Grammy historical past. As for Davis, her greatest spoken phrase album victory enabled her to turn out to be simply the third Black lady in historical past to realize EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) standing. (Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson had been the primary two.)
The brand new Starvation Video games prequel is about to hit theaters on Nov. 17, just below two weeks earlier than the earliest public screenings of Beyoncé’s extremely anticipated Renaissance documentary live performance movie (Nov. 30). Simply because the preliminary 4 Starvation Video games filmed gifted audiences memorable musical moments corresponding to Taylor Swift & The Civil Wars‘ “Protected & Sound” and Lorde’s “Yellow Flicker Beat,” The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes will arrive with a Rachel Zegler-led soundtrack.
Zegler’s Lucy Grey Baird is the movie’s feminine lead, and she is going to sing eight songs on the soundtrack — together with her haunting cowl of Jennifer Lawrence’s “The Hanging Tree” — with extra contributions from Sierra Ferrell, Molly Tuttle and Olivia Rodrigo. “Can’t Catch Me Now,” Rodrigo’s new authentic track for the movie, arrived on streaming platforms on Friday (Nov. 3).
Try Viola Davis getting her groove on beneath: