{"id":245638,"date":"2026-06-11T15:00:17","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/josh-hutcherson-resented-hunger-games-fame\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T15:00:17","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T15:00:17","slug":"josh-hutcherson-resented-hunger-games-fame","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/josh-hutcherson-resented-hunger-games-fame\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson ‘resented’ Hunger Games fame"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Josh Hutcherson<\/a> “resented” his fame after The Hunger Games.<\/p>\n

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Josh Hutcherson resented his fame<\/p>\n

The 33-year-old actor became a household name in 2012 when he played Peeta Mellark in the first of the blockbuster movies and while he was thankful he and co-stars Jennifer Lawrence<\/a> and Liam Hemsworth could lean on one another as they learned to navigate life in the spotlight, he didn’t enjoy the attention.<\/p>\n

Speaking to Hunger Games co-star Elizabeth Banks<\/a> for Variety’s Actors on Actors series, he said: “It was crazy. It was such a massive machine, and it was such a formative time of my life. <\/p>\n

“We all went through so many changes together. We leaned on each other, hard-core. It was really intimidating. <\/p>\n

“I\u2019m from a small town in Kentucky. I started acting when I was a kid because I liked the idea of making movies. Fame was never on my radar \u2014 and then I was thrust into that world in such a big way. It was a lot.<\/p>\n

\n“For a long time, I was resentful toward it, because I didn\u2019t want that kind of attention.<\/p>\n

\n“So I was chip-on-my-shoulder angry about it. With years of perspective, I have grown to appreciate it so much.”<\/p>\n

\nJosh views his time working on the franchise as his college days.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “I was 19. I didn\u2019t do college, so college for me was shooting those movies and growing up with them. It\u2019s so long ago.”<\/p>\n

\nThe I Love L.A. actor has been working since he was a child, but he never takes it for granted that there’s another job on the way.<\/p>\n

\nHe said: “It is interesting, because this industry is wild. It\u2019s so many ups and downs, and there is a feeling of uncertainty between jobs that feels infinite sometimes. <\/p>\n

\n“I am always thinking, ‘Well, it was a good run. I\u2019ve been doing it for 24 years and I guess that\u2019s it.’ I don\u2019t have a job lined up; I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen. <\/p>\n

\n“And so it can be very stressful, but then you get on set again and you\u2019re like, ‘Oh, OK, I\u2019m home.’ It feels right.”<\/p>\n

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