Josh Hutcherson
Josh Hutcherson
Joshua Ryan "Josh" Hutchersonis an American actor. A native of Kentucky, Hutcherson began his acting career in the early 2000s and appeared in several commercials and minor film and television roles before landing his first major role in 2002 in the pilot episode of House Blend. His first film role was in Miracle Dogson Animal Planet, followed by a motion-capture performance in The Polar Expressand a voice-acting role in Howl's Moving Castle...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionMovie Actor
Date of Birth12 October 1992
CityUnion, KY
CountryUnited States of America
Auditioning is always so different for different things.
I started acting when I was about nine. I always wanted to get into acting since I was really little but my parents would never let me because they'd heard all the bad stuff about being in the business as a young actor and stuff like that.
I'm so excited. I love Peeta so much. I think that over the course of the next couple of books, he has so many interesting places to go to, character-wise. I'm ready to dive full-force into it. When I saw the movie actually, it got me energized. 'Let's go get some cameras! Let's go shoot the second one right now!'
I like both athletic girls and girly girls. It depends on their personality. I like girls who can go out and play sports with me and throw the football around, but you don't want a girl who's too much tougher than you. I like brainy girls who can respond to what I'm saying.
Acting is a challenge at times. I mean, when you have scenes where you're jumping into a mascot bear to travel back in time, and you try to make that seem real. For me, I'm a person that has a pretty wild imagination, just kind of letting that run wild and sort of just doing the best you can to not feel stupid.
Luckily, no one I've ever been in love with has needed me to save their life!
The way I look at it, movies are a different medium for storytelling than books.
There's actually something interesting about having no rehearsal time - you have to just walk in and go with your gut, which is exciting.
I got my first tattoo when I was 16 years old and I went with my mom to get it done - she has a bunch too so we're tattoo buddies now.
I think the brutality is important to convey as part of the story, to see how brutal it is to have these kids in battle with one another.
For me, in the third book, when Peeta gets brainwashed by the Capitol, that's going to be fun to play. The rest of the time he's very much into Katniss, and for that to get turned around and to play it the other way, that's going to be very exciting.
As far as what I'm afraid of, I hate spiders. I'm pretty good at being not afraid of almost anything, except for spiders.
I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.
I have always believed in standing up for what I believe in and I believe that everyone deserves the right to love whoever they love no matter who they are.