Josh Hutcherson has confessed that he immediately felt the “build-up” of The Hunger Games upon joining the cast.
The actor, who will play Peeta Melark in the big screen adaptation of Suzanne Collins‘s young adult dystopian trilogy, said that he tries to avoid reading gossip about The Hunger Games so as not to get caught up in the hype surrounding the project.
“It was crazy. It had so much build-up for something I’ve done so many times before. Every other time it’s been, ‘Oh, another movie’. This time, it had so much going on before the production even started. I felt it but don’t feel like it affected me that much.”
Asked what his favourite scene was to shoot, he responded: “I was excited for the cave scene the most, for me at least, because it’s the most character-driven part of the story where you really saw Katniss (Jennifer Lawrence) and Peeta’s relationship take a big turn and come to fruition, if you will.”
Hutcherson recently admitted that he doesn’t like The Hunger Games being compared to Twilight because it sets “unfair” expectations for the franchise.
The Hunger Games, which also stars Liam Hemsworth, Elizabeth Banks, Woody Harrelson, Lenny Kravitz and Stanley Tucci, opens worldwide in March.
