Remember When Everyone Hated Josh Hutcherson Getting Cast As Peeta? Yesterday’s huge Catching Fire.
For the detractors, it seems to be a mix of wanting someone else to get the role, or simply being unable to envision Sam as Finnick. Honestly, it sounds exactly like when Josh Hutcherson. Any doubts I might’ve had were erased. But let’s time travel back and just look at these comments from the official EW. I’ve had trouble tracking down specific editorials decrying Josh, probably because a lot of bloggers figured they’d suspend total judgment until The Hunger Games. But suffice to say, Josh did not have a lot of supporters in the early days despite being fantastic in The Kids Are All Right.
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Mostly it was his looks: The brunette just didn’t match the blonde hero we’d all envisioned, especially in comparison to other candidates like Hunter Parrish. But then it all came together! It was like the movie came to life.”I say “reportedly” because I’ve only found it on one Tumblr.
Then there’s Josh himself, who humbly thanked the fans for helping him win a role he had genuinely fought for: “They mean the world to me. Without the fans, I wouldn. When people hire you for a movie, they want to hire you because you.
Nobody would want to see the movie!”And now I can’t find many people who still! When the first trailer came out last year, the “Josh is Peeta” tag appeared on Tumblr, with users admitting that they’d been wrong. Sure, in another universe maybe your dream actor’s schedule could have opened up and he would have brought a different take to Finnick. But shouldn’t we trust the producers’ track record in bringing on Jennifer Lawrence, Lenny Kravitz, and other hotly contested castings?
Photo: Entertainment Weekly.
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