‘Hunger Games’ star Tom Blyth: ‘It would be nice to play someone who is just a lovely guy’

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Season 1 showed, Billy didn’t set out to become a criminal on purpose. Season 2 finds him easing into outlaw life. “That was what was so fun…getting to undermine that a little bit and not just play him as a bad guy, but playing him as a young man who’s trying to muddle through,” said Blyth, who is British. “But he also happens to be extremely skilled at being an outlaw.

And so this second part of Season 2… it’s very exciting, because you get to see him kind of be a badass,” he went on. “He keeps getting tougher.

We wanted to portray him as a teenager at the start. By the end, if we were to get more seasons, hopefully we’re going to show him becoming a hardened man who finds this all a lot easier.”Blyth has become something of an expert on villain origin stories, because in addition to Billy the Kid, he’s best known for playing the young version of notorious “The Hunger Games” villain Coriolanus Snow.Starring in 2023’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes” between seasons of “Billy the Kid” changed his life “hugely,” he said. “I’ve been acting since I was like 14.

So, for fifteen years, I’ve been trying to do this in earnest…That [movie] kicked down so many doors for me that I’ve been knocking on for quite a few years. ‘Billy the Kid’ was the thing that started that process.