• Josh Hutcherson is opening up a few tough interval following the discharge of the ultimate movie in The Starvation Video games franchise.
• "I didn't be taught rejection ever. I knew solely success, from the age 9 to, like, 24," he revealed on Tuesday's new episode of the Dinner's On Me podcast.
• As soon as he was launched from his obligations because the courageous and compassionate Peeta Mellark, nevertheless, Hutcherson "tasted my first feeling of disappointment, failure, rejection" when attempting to land different roles.

Josh Hutcherson thought Hollywood could be his oyster after The Hunger Games. He didn't count on it to usher in essentially the most difficult chapter in his profession.

The I Love L.A. star spoke concerning the shock of coming off The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay – Half 2 into an limitless loop of unsuccessful auditions throughout Tuesday's new episode of the Dinner's On Me podcast hosted by Fashionable Household's Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

"I didn't be taught rejection ever. I knew solely success, from the age 9 to, like, 24, then sort of submit Starvation Video games world. As a result of Starvation Video games set issues up," he defined. "The business is so goddamn difficult, as a result of they set you up on this approach 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 mirrored that he had been made to really feel that "the dominion is yours," when in actual fact, "it's under no circumstances."

"As shortly as they're excited to get you into that highlight, they wish to not provide you with anything in a approach," Hutcherson defined. "It's very difficult. So I tasted my first feeling of disappointment, failure, rejection, in all probability after I was 24 or so, 25."

Ferguson, who has been candid about his personal struggles in Hollywood earlier than and after reserving his signature function of Mitchell Pritchett on the ABC sitcom Fashionable Household, pressed Hutcherson to explain what particularly prompted that upset, rejected feeling.

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"It was identical to a string of nobody calling, not getting any provides, auditioning, however not getting forged. It's this entire factor of, 'Oh wow, I’ve my profession that I've had since I used to be 9 years previous. It's at all times labored. I at all times received forged.' After all, there are issues that you just don't get forged in, however I had solely recognized that the possibilities are, if I used to be auditioning, [I] was going to e-book it. That’s simply not the truth in any respect."

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Hutcherson was forged within the first Starvation Video games film in 2011, when he was solely 18. By that point, nevertheless, he had already appeared in a dozen and a half movies, like The Children Are Alright, Bridge to Terebithia, and the household comedy RV, which costarred Robin Williams as his character's father.

The 33-year-old Kentucky native did work steadily after The Starvation Video games: Mockingjay – Half 2 concluded the franchise in 2015, however the place he made 5 movies in 2012 alone, he made 5 in complete between 2018 and 2023.

The actor has just lately staged a serious comeback, nevertheless, showing within the hit HBO comedy I Love L.A., and starring on this previous weekend's field workplace topper 5 Nights at Freddy's 2.

You’ll be able to hearken to Hutcherson's full look on the Dinner's On Me podcast above.

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