"I wanted to impress my 13-year old daughter, Genesis" - Viola Davis on working 'The Hunger Games: BOS&S'

Who else but her? Viola Davis shines in all her glory as the villainous Dr. Volumnia Gaul in Lionsgate’s The Hunger Games: The Ballad Of Songbirds and Snakes. With her diverse experience and incredible acting pedigree, Viola makes for the perfect Dr Gaul, the Head Gamemaker for The Hunger Games. Aside from her evil plans for The Games, she also plays a key role in Coriolanus becoming the man we know him as today. This exciting prequel is supported by a stellar cast including the likes of Peter Dinklage, Hunter Schafer, Josh Anders Rivera and Jason Schwartzman and hits your nearest theatres today.

At the Los Angeles fan screening, as quoted by Business Insider, Viola Davis said, “I'm just gonna say it. I wanted to impress my 13-year-old daughter, Genesis. I did have the best time. I had the best time torturing the young people. Sometimes, I feel that people see me as so maternal and good. I have people who want to hug me at Target. It was just a pleasure to play not a very huggable character, I will say, and step out of my comfort zone and be a part of this franchise.”

She also said, "I did have the best time," Davis said of playing a calculating villain. "I had the best time torturing the young people." In the film, Dr. Gaul thrives off of coming up with new ways to torment the tributes in the titular Hunger Games. As a geneticist in charge of the Capitol's experimental weapons division, Dr Gaul revels in creating modified animals, Mutations, to set loose on tributes.

The Hunger Games: Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes is based on the book by Suzanne Collins and is among one of the longest novels in The Hunger Games series, with 517 pages. Even though it wasn’t Francis Lawrence’s decision to take whether the movie was to be made as a standalone flick and not into two parts, he was not even a big fan of doing it. And given the page numbers of the novel, the film has rightly followed.