Josh Hutcherson is opening up in regards to the difficulties of Hollywood after starring in one of many largest movie franchises, The Starvation Video games.
In a brand new interview, the I Love L.A. star mentioned his rise to stardom and the cruel realities of the trade.
“I didn’t study rejection ever. I knew solely success, from the age 9 to, like, 24, then sort of publish Starvation Video games world. As a result of Starvation Video games set issues up,” he mentioned on Jesse Tyler Ferguson’s Dinner’s On Me podcast. “The trade is so goddamn difficult, as a result of they set you up on this means the place they’re like, ‘You’ve arrived. You now are working with Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and also you’re on this film that makes billions of {dollars}, you’re the second lead of the movie.’”
Hutcherson felt that the world had opened up for him after starring within the movie franchise however felt that “as rapidly as they’re excited to get you into the highlight, they wish to not provide you with anything in a means,” including, “It’s very difficult. So I tasted my first feeling of disappointment, failure, rejection, most likely after I was 24 or so, 25.”
The actor recalled that he was “not getting any presents” and occurring auditions, “however not getting solid.”
“It’s this complete factor of, ‘Oh wow, I’ve my profession that I’ve had since I used to be 9 years previous. It’s all the time labored. I all the time obtained solid.’ After all, there are issues that you simply don’t get solid in, however I had solely identified that the probabilities are, if I used to be auditioning, [I] was going to e book it. That’s simply not the fact in any respect,” he added.
Hutcherson was 18 when he landed the position of Peeta Mellark in The Starvation Video games in 2012. After reprising his position within the three sequels, ending with 2015’s The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay — Half 1, Hutcherson went on to behave in movies like 2017’s The Catastrophe Artist, 2023’s 5 Nights at Freddy’s, and 2024’s The Beekeeper.
In 2025, Hutcherson reprised his 5 Nights at Freddy’s position for its sequel and commenced starring in HBO Max’s I Love LA as Dylan.
