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
When you have love in a story, it gives you the freedom to really take the characters to very interesting places.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool. Once you have love as a motivator in a story, your character is free to do anything.
The most important thing to having a long career, as an actor, is diversity and being able to play different types of characters in different types of movies. I want to keep acting, all my life. In order to do that, I think it is important to go and do the bigger tentpole box office movies, and then also do more character roles.
The Hunger Games' for me is I love the books so much and the character and the story were incredible. That's kind of the game plan is just do really interesting stories with interesting characters.
I've been on projects before where there's no rehearsal, and you walk in on set and that's literally the first time you've ever played the character, and then I've had times where there's been three weeks of rehearsal. I like both.
When you get to play a character that's in love, it's cool.
There are a lot of characters that you can get into that don't exist in the studio world.
I'm always open to not necessarily to do leading roles because I want to do roles that are the best, character role. And sometimes, it's not going to be a leading role. It's going to be a smaller, supporting role. So really, I'm open to doing anything.
I base the roles I choose depending on the characters. That's just how I'm gonna run my career. So if it's a good role I'm gonna take it whether it be fantasy, or whether it be realistic or fiction, anything.
I never really read a character before that I connected with more than Peeta. So, for me, if I couldn't get that job I was like, 'Well, if I can't play practically myself in a movie, what can I play?
What I think after reading the script and seeing where the story goes, I go with my instincts on the character. If my instincts are wrong the director and the producers will guide me in the right direction. That's just kind of how I take on any role, be it a fantasy movie or not.
I love doing roles and movies that are different from each other. That's kind of why I like to be an actor because I get to play different characters and pretend I'm different people going through different situations.
Holden Caulfield is the best character in literature, period.
I didn't go to high school, so I don't have a high school experience. I was home-schooled during high school.