Josh Hutcherson premiered his upcoming Escobar: Paradise Lost at TIFF and took part in all the requisite promotional activity including a Q&A, portrait sessions and all kinds of press. Check out some of the photos and video, plus a peek at the newest stills from the film (above).
Benicio del Toro and Josh in a TIFF portrait
Josh also talked to The Daily Beast about the theft of Jennifer Lawrence's personal photos and The Hunger Games movies while at the film festival.
“It’s fucking horrible,” he says. “I haven’t spoken to her [Jennifer Lawrence] since it happened, but as far as the public, Twitter, and media have reacted, it’s awful. We act because it’s what we want to do. I’ve acted since I was 9 years old because it’s my job, it’s what I’m good at, and it’s what I love to do. I don’t wantattention. I don’t want to have my private life looked into or have people think they deserve to know about my private life. And then people say, ‘Well, then you shouldn’t have become an actor. ’Fuck that. I didn’t choose all that. I chose to be an actor. I was 9 years old! Do you think a 9-year-old is thinking about public scandal? I wanted to make movies." He takes a long pause. “It makes you feel like you want to run away from it all and escape to a small island away from everybody.”
On not being typecast after The Hunger Games films:
“We got lucky!” he says. “I think it helps so much that Jennifer is who she is, and has done the work that she’s done. It gives us more credibility that we’re associated with her, since she’s been nominated for multiple Oscars and won one. Also, The Hunger Games didn’t create us. The makers brought all the cast members onto the project and helped create it. I think that’s a big reason why we’re not tied to it in a negative way.”
On wrapping the series:
“We filmed for nine months on the last one, so everyone was so tired that we didn’t have a big bash at the end,” he says. “I think it was because we were sad. Like, Fuck, this is done. We had a wrap party in Berlin and since we were all staying at the Soho House, we went to the rooftop a lot, but nothing major.”
On Philip Seymour Hoffman:
“I only had the privilege of sharing one scene with Hoffman, this ball dance scene in the last one, but I saw him around on set a lot,” he says. “It’s really crazy and shocking what happened. They had pretty much shot all his stuff, so they’re not going to do any weird, CG things to re-create him. They didn’t have to work around too much.”
Our sincere thanks to JoshHutchersonNews.net for the photos!