Photos from filming in North Carolina today (May 31) have appeared online and Josh’s hair is indeed lighter! It’s not quite as blonde as expected but it certainly is lighter – it also looks like Josh has also bulked up quite a bit for the role. Photos available in the galleries.
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Navitat, a tree-top experience simulator, in North Carolina have just uploaded this photo of Josh Hutcherson and Vanessa Hudgens into their galleries; the pair visited the North Carolina base, in Asheville, on May 22nd. Josh is in North Carolina training for his upcoming role as Peeta Mellark in the “Hunger Games” movie. Filming is rumoured to start in June.
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Inside Movies has released a snippet from their interview with Jennifer Lawrence, where she discusses working with Josh and Liam: their budding friendship on the set of “Hunger Games” and how alike her co-stars are to their designated characters.
“Josh is so charming,” she says. “He’s so charming! And when you read in the books about Peeta being able to manipulate anybody — I mean Josh could get, well, I don’t know a metaphor for [this scenario] except for dirty ones. But he’s charming, he’s sweet, he’s down to earth, he’s normal. He embodies all of it and brings it all to Peeta. So when you meet him he’s got all of these great qualities and every single one of them come across in every line he says out loud as Peeta.” More at the source.
Jennifer Lawrence has debuted her new dark hair, dyed for her role as Katniss Everdeen, in her recent press tour for her movie “X-Men: First Class”; she has also started speaking out about her preparations for the role and her growing relationship with co-stars Josh Hutcherson (Peeta) and Liam Hemsworth (Gale).
“Josh and I are both crazy and so it’s good when we have other people that are not crazy to calm us down a little bit, but when Josh and I are together, we’re so bad for each other. Josh and I were in his room watching some show about crocodiles, and then we went screaming about Avatar and how upsetting it was that we couldn’t live on Pandora, and we couldn’t be Avatars no matter how hard we tried and we were screaming at the top of our lungs, and before I realized it, Liam ran in and was like, “ARE YOU GUYS ALRIGHT?” and we’re both totally upset, covering our faces all “RUUAHHH AVATAR!!!” See more at the source.
According to E!Online the “Hunger Game” actors have been thrown into a training boot camp to get themselves ready for the stunt-intensive film. According to an inside source the cast are getting along very well and film production is set to start sometime this summer.
Leven Rambin, who is playing District 1’s Tribute, Glimmer, has also spoken about her excitement at working on the project and with her actor buddy, Josh Hutcherson!
With just a month left before The Hunger Games begins shooting, an inside Hunger source tells us the entire cast is currently enrolled in physically demanding stunt training!
“The cast mates are all really happy with each other and get along great so far,” our source tells us, regarding the actors who have varying degrees of fame.
And while most of the tributes cast already have serious experience as stunt doubles, everyone is still required to attend training a few days a week, we’re told.
“They have to learn archery, sword fighting, martial arts and the like,” the knowledgeable insider insists. Filming starts in June in North Carolina, do they don’t have too much longer to snap to!
“They want the actors to genuinely know what they are doing,” adds our source, who also says the film will have a “very cool and futuristic feel.”
When we ran into District 1 tribute Glimmer, played by Leven Rambin, at the IWC Schaffhausen presents Peter Lindbergh’s Portofino last week, the actress told us she had to stay mum on the film. But she did say, “I’m so excited to work with Josh Hutcherson, I’ve been friends with him for years.”
Good thing the Tributes are all getting along so far, because our Hunger mole tells us they will most likely be filming all summer long. More at the source.