{"id":473493,"date":"2026-06-12T09:27:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:27:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473493\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T09:27:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T09:27:09","slug":"josh-hutcherson-says-he-resented-fame-after-the-hunger-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/473493\/","title":{"rendered":"Josh Hutcherson says he \u2018resented\u2019 fame after The Hunger Games"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cI\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 \u2013 and then I was thrust into that world in such a big way. It was a lot.<\/p>\n

\u201cFor a long time, I was resentful toward it, because I didn\u2019t want that kind of attention.<\/p>\n

\u201cSo I was chip-on-my-shoulder angry about it. With years of perspective, I have grown to appreciate it so much.\u201d<\/p>\n

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

\u201cI 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.\u201d<\/p>\n

The I Love L.A. actor has been working since he was a child, but he never takes it for granted that there\u2019s another job on the way.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt 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,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI am always thinking, \u2018Well, it was a good run. I\u2019ve been doing it for 24 years and I guess that\u2019s it\u2019. I don\u2019t have a job lined up; I don\u2019t know what\u2019s going to happen.<\/p>\n

\u201cAnd so it can be very stressful, but then you get on set again and you\u2019re like, \u2018Oh, okay, I\u2019m home\u2019. It feels right.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cI\u2019m from a small town in Kentucky. I started acting when I was a kid because I liked…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":473494,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[74,156,39275,6489,692,51218,32134,1433,409,111,139,69,238885,312,223],"class_list":["post-473493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-after","tag-entertainment","tag-fame","tag-games","tag-he","tag-hunger","tag-hutcherson","tag-josh","tag-movies","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-resented","tag-says","tag-the"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=473493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/473493\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/473494"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=473493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=473493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=473493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}