Disney actor David Henrie has claimed that losing out on a key role in \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d was the \u201cbest thing in the world\u201d because it helped him to find a real connection to God. <\/p>\n
In a recent appearance on the Lila Rose Show<\/a> podcast, the \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d star <\/a>opened up about how losing out on the part of Gale Hawthorne to Australian actor Liam Hemsworth<\/a> helped him to embrace religion and ultimately meet his wife.<\/p>\n \u201cIt was down to me and Liam Hemsworth for the role in \u2018The Hunger Games,\u2019\u201d the 37-year-old recalled. \u201cI had a great audition and we negotiated the contracts. A three-picture deal, millions of dollars. I really wanted the role. But Liam got it.\u201d<\/p>\n Actor David Henrie (pictured) has opened up about how missing out on a movie role led him to Catholicism during an interview on the Lila Rose Show. The Lila Rose Show<\/p>\n The role of Gale Hawthorne ultimately went to Australian actor, Liam Hemsworth (pictured with Jennifer Lawrence in \u201cThe Hunger Games: Mockingjay \u2013 Part 1\u201d). \u00c2\u00a9Lions Gate\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n Henrie said he had been feeling confident about getting the part because he had known the film\u2019s lead actress Jennifer Lawrence \u201cfor a while.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI did know she was going to be Katniss. I didn\u2019t know she was going to be in the room for the chemistry read. But I walk in, I see her, and you know, we we have great chemistry. I\u2019ve known her. And the audition went great. It was a phenomenal audition.\u201d<\/p>\n However, the \u201cGrown Ups 2\u201d actor realized he had competition when he saw \u201chulking looking\u201d Hemsworth <\/a>walk in for an audition.<\/p>\n Henrie (seen in a 2009 episode of \u201cWizards of Waverly Place\u201d) ultimately lost out on the part, which allowed him to star in the 2015 war drama, \u201cLittle Boy.\u201d \u00c2\u00a9Disney Channel\/Courtesy Everett Collection<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tWant more celebrity and pop culture news?\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with Page Six Daily.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n Hemsworth and Lawrence starred alongside Josh Hutcherson as Peeta Mellark in the 2012 movie, which grossed over $2.9 billion at the box office worldwide.<\/p>\n Henrie noted that \u201cThe Last Song\u201d star Hemsworth was ultimately a \u201cgreat casting choice\u201d and explained how losing out on the part meant he was available to take on a part in the 2015 war drama, \u201cLittle Boy.\u201d<\/p>\n While working on the film, the \u201cHow I Met Your Mother\u201d star was invited to \u201cphilosophy nights,\u201d which interested him because he had been studying Buddhism and \u201ccomparative mythology\u201d at the time.<\/p>\n While working on the film, the \u201cHow I Met Your Mother star\u201d says he was invited to \u201cphilosophy nights,\u201d and soon found himself being drawn to Catholicism. The Lila Rose Show<\/p>\n \u201cIt\u2019s a bunch of good guys and it just started with, \u2018Let\u2019s just talk, a leaf falls from a tree, what do we know about that?\u201d he recalled. \u201cAnd so we started going back and back and back to the tree, to the ground, to the soil, to the earth. Like, there had to be a start to create everything.\u201d<\/p>\n Despite initially not wanting anything to do with God, he started to question how the universe was created and found himself weighing different religions before he ended up being drawn to Catholicism.<\/p>\n \u201cIt all clicked and I radically changed the way I live\u201d he explained, noting that he went on to become more selective with his acting roles.<\/p>\n The \u201cIs God Bigger Than A Dragon\u201d author (seen in a social media photo with his wife, Maria) said finding faith \u201cradically changed\u201d how he has chosen to live his life. davidhenrie\/instagram<\/p>\n He also became more choosy about his romantic life, explaining that he made the decision to cease any and all casual dating in favor of pursuing only serious relationships with a person who he believed could become his wife. <\/p>\n Based on the best-selling book series by Suzanne Collins, \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d series was adapted into four films and remains the 21st-highest-grossing film franchise of all time, earning a whopping $3.3 billion worldwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cDie My Love\u201d star Lawrence recently confirmed her \u201cemotional\u201d return<\/a> to the franchise\u00a0in the upcoming instalment, \u201cSunrise on the Reaping<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Disney actor David Henrie has claimed that losing out on a key role in \u201cThe Hunger Games\u201d was…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":911658,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[1508,236,91,36573,88,14967,54606,75218,206,27512,114960],"class_list":["post-911657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-actors","tag-celebrities","tag-celebrity-news","tag-disney-channel","tag-entertainment","tag-hunger-games","tag-jennifer-lawrence","tag-liam-hemsworth","tag-movies","tag-the-hunger-games","tag-wizards-of-waverly-place"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911657","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=911657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/911657\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/911658"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=911657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=911657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=911657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}