{"id":235795,"date":"2026-04-21T10:00:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:00:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/josh-hutcherson-claims-taylor-swifts-fans-threatened-to-destroy-him\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T10:00:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T10:00:15","slug":"josh-hutcherson-claims-taylor-swifts-fans-threatened-to-destroy-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/21\/josh-hutcherson-claims-taylor-swifts-fans-threatened-to-destroy-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson claims Taylor Swift&#8217;s fans threatened to &#8216;destroy&#8217; him"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"byline\">\n<p>        <time itemprop=\"datePublished\" content=\"2026-04-21\" datetime=\"1776765615\" pubdate=\"\">21 April 2026<\/time>\n    <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/josh-hutcherson\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,josh-hutcherson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Josh Hutcherson<\/a> claims Taylor Swift&#8217;s fans threatened to &#8220;destroy&#8221; him after he admitted he wasn&#8217;t a fan of her music.<\/p>\n<p>                            <\/p>\n<p class=\"image-caption landscape\">Josh Hutcherson&#8217;s confession about Taylor Swift made him a target for her fans<\/p>\n<p>The Hunger Games star confessed he&#8217;s not a &#8220;Swiftie&#8221; during a photoshoot with his I Love LA costar Jordan Firstman and he&#8217;s revealed the admission led to him being viciously trolled by Taylor&#8217;s ardent followers.<\/p>\n<p>In an interview with GQ Hype, Josh explained: &#8220;I got some heat because I did a photo shoot with Jordan, and Jordan asked me something about being a [<a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/taylor-swift\/\" class=\"exposure-link \" data-linktrack=\"LinkTracker,articleExposure,taylor-swift\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Taylor Swift<\/a> fan], and I was like: &#8216;Oh no, I\u2019m definitely not a Swiftie&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of a sudden it garnered this: &#8216;F*** him! He\u2019s a monster! Destroy him! He\u2019s short! He hates her because he\u2019s short!&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s just like, whoa! I think she\u2019s great. Her music is not my kind of music.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nJosh went on to reveal experience with Taylor fans underlines why he doesn&#8217;t want to use social media, adding: &#8220;That is why I don\u2019t want to be online. I don\u2019t need that energy&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\nThe actor also insisted he wants to keep much of his life private to make his onscreen characters more believable. He told the publication: &#8220;[Social media is] counterintuitive to my job, because if people know you more, you can\u2019t disappear into characters. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;They see you as: &#8216;Oh, that\u2019s Josh.&#8217; You know what I mean? So, if you\u2019re a f****** meme, people know you for the meme.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\nIt comes after Josh admitted he didn&#8217;t experience &#8220;rejection&#8221; in Hollywood until after The Hunger Games. <\/p>\n<p>\nThe 33-year-old star &#8211; who was 18 when he was cast as Peeta Mellark opposite Jennifer Lawrence&#8217;s Katness Everdeen &#8211; admitted it was only after the fourth movie in the original series that he started to learn about how difficult the film industry can be. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe told the Dinner&#8217;s On Me podcast: \u201cI didn\u2019t learn rejection ever. &#8220;I knew only success from the age nine to, like, 24, then kind of post Hunger Games world. Because Hunger Games set things up. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;The industry is so goddamn tricky because they set you up in this way where they\u2019re like, \u2018You\u2019ve arrived. You now are working with Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman, and you\u2019re in this movie that makes billions of dollars, you\u2019re the second lead of the film.&#8217; &#8220;<\/p>\n<p>\nBefore The Hunger Games, Josh appeared in the likes of Little Manhattan, Zuthura: A Space Adventure, Journey to the Center of the Earth and The Kids Are All Right.<\/p>\n<p>\n He insisted that as &#8220;quickly as they&#8217;re excited to get you into the spotlight&#8221;, those opportunities fade. <\/p>\n<p>\nJosh was around 25 years old when he first felt &#8220;disappointment, failure [and] rejection&#8221; as he struggled to land any roles. <\/p>\n<p>\nHe said: &#8220;It was just like a string of no one calling, not getting any offers, auditioning, but not getting cast. <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;It\u2019s this whole thing of, \u2018Oh wow, I have my career that I\u2019ve had since I was 9 years old. It\u2019s always worked. I always got cast.\u2019 <\/p>\n<p>\n&#8220;Of course, there are things that you don\u2019t get cast in, but I had only known that the chances are, if I was auditioning, was going to book it. That is just not the reality at all.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><!-- Pagination --><\/p>\n<p><!-- playbuzz --><br \/>\n<!-- end playbuzz--><\/p>\n<p><!-- \n\n<div data-cn-project=\"femalefirst\">\n    \n<\/div>\n\n --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n<!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<p>    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><br \/>\n    <!-- Outbrain { date: 2018\/06\/08 } --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.femalefirst.co.uk\/celebrity\/josh-hutcherson-claims-taylor-swifts-fans-threatened-destroy-1441041.html?f=rss\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>21 April 2026 Josh Hutcherson claims Taylor Swift&#8217;s fans threatened to &#8220;destroy&#8221; him after he admitted he wasn&#8217;t a fan of her music. Josh Hutcherson&#8217;s confession about Taylor Swift made him a target for her fans The Hunger Games star confessed he&#8217;s not a &#8220;Swiftie&#8221; during a photoshoot with his I Love LA costar Jordan [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":235796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[14929,53],"class_list":{"0":"post-235795","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-make-up","8":"tag-josh-hutcherson","9":"tag-taylor-swift"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235795"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235795\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235796"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}