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\nLionsgate released a new trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, which features an unrecognizable Glenn Close in an orange wig and bright red lipstickThe Oscar-nominated actress plays Drusilla Sickle, a sinister character from Suzanne Collins’s dystopian book series, which are the basis for the filmsThe Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping hits theaters on Nov. 20, 2026<\/p>\n
Glenn Close<\/a>, is that really you?\n<\/p>\n The actress, 78, appears completely unrecognizable in the first trailer for The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping, a sequel to 2023\u2019s The Hunger Games: A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes<\/a>, and prequel to the hit franchise<\/a> that launched Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> to superstardom in 2012.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n In the dystopian tale set in a world where children are chosen by lottery to fight to the death in a televised spectacle,\u00a0Close plays Drusilla Sickle, a sinister Hunger Games official.\n<\/p>\n The trailer shows the eight-time Oscar nominee sporting an orange bob with severe bangs, bright red lipstick and arched eyebrows as she ushers in the reaping \u2014 or selecting of tributes \u2014 in fictional Panem\u2019s District 12.\n<\/p>\n Glenn Close in ‘The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.’.<\/p>\n Lionsgate Movies\/YouTube<\/p>\n \u201cI just think of character stuff as really fun,\u201d she recently told Entertainment Tonight<\/a>. \u201cI\u2019m doing The Hunger Games now and that\u2019s another amazing collaboration I\u2019m having fun with.\u201d\u00a0\n<\/p>\n She added to Variety<\/a> about the \u201chuge\u201d new movie, \u201cThere\u2019s all these extras and helicopters and chariots and horses.\u201d\n<\/p>\n According to an official release, the upcoming film, \u201crevisits the world of Panem and follows young Haymitch Abernathy (Joseph Zada<\/a>) twenty-four years before the events of The Hunger Games, starting on the morning of the reaping of the Fiftieth Hunger Games, also known as the Second Quarter Quell.”\n<\/p>\n Glenn Close on Oct. 16.<\/p>\n Savion Washington\/WireImage<\/p>\n Sunrise on the Reaping also stars Jesse Plemons<\/a>, Ralph Fiennes<\/a>, Kieran Culkin<\/a>, Elle Fanning<\/a>, Mckenna Grace<\/a>, Maya Hawke<\/a>, Whitney Peak<\/a> and Kelvin Harrison Jr<\/a>.\n<\/p>\n Close is no stranger to disappearing into roles. In 2011\u2019s Albert Knobs, Close played a woman passing as a male butler in 19th century Ireland.\n<\/p>\n Glenn Close in ‘Albert Knobbs.’.<\/p>\n Patrick Redmond\/Roadside Attractions<\/p>\n And in 2024\u2019s horror movie The Deliverance, she played a chain-smoking grandma with a penchant for tight clothes and younger men.\n<\/p>\n Glenn Close ‘The Deliverance.’.<\/p>\n Aaron Ricketts\/Netflix<\/p>\n Fans will have to wait a year to see Close in Sunrise on the Reaping, which premieres in theaters on Nov. 20, 2026.\u00a0\n<\/p>\n But in the meantime, the Fatal Attraction icon can be seen in Hulu\u2019s campy legal drama All\u2019s Fair and Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery<\/a>, the third installment of writer-director Rian Johnson<\/a>\u2019s murder mysteries about whip-smart detective Benoit Blanc.\n<\/p>\n Set in a small town in upstate New York, Wake Up Dead Man stars close as Margaret Delacroix, the manager of a church and close ally of fiery monsignor Jefferson Wicks (Josh Brolin<\/a>), who\u2019s murdered during an Easter Week service.\n<\/p>\n Glenn Close (center) in ‘Wake Up Dead Man: A Knives Out Mystery.’.<\/p>\n John Wilson\/Netflix<\/p>\n