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There's a new interview and ridiculously handsome photoshoot with Josh Hutcherson in DuJour.com.
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Josh talks aboout Mockingjay Part 2 and compares the set to a frat house.
“We were filming in Berlin, all staying in the same hotel. Most of us were on the same floor. It was an open-door policy. At any moment you were ready to cover yourself because there was some incoming nonsense from outside.” Like what? “Like Woody Harrelson half-naked with a towel trying to smack you. The Hunger Games has been the equivalent of a college experience,” he says. “At 18, you go to college. Now I’m 23. I’m out of college.”
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On Joshifer:
Meanwhile, his friendship with Hunger Games co-star Jennifer Lawrence has become such a national obsession that the two have their own nickname: Joshifer. Of their slumber parties (with co-star Liam Hemsworth) Hutcherson says it’s not what you think. “It’s not the three of us cuddled up in a bed!” So what, it’s more about avoiding drunk driving? “Exactly,” he says. “We’re being responsible young adults!”
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On life after The Hunger Games:
Hutcherson insists he has no plan for life after Panem, and that he isn’t studying the post-Twilight pitfalls of his contemporaries for clues. It’s worth remembering, Taylor Lautner also once presented at the Oscars. “I like to be driven by projects and stories and characters as opposed to strategic career moves,” Hutcherson says, laughing as the words escape his mouth. “We’ll see how that turns out. But I’d rather go broke and never work again instead of doing movies that I didn’t want to make because of a career path.”
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On enjoying life at 23:
While he’s looking for his next project, and reading scripts for the production company he started with his mom, he’s also enjoying being 23. The other night he went to see the Swedish singer Tove Lo perform in Koreatown (one of his friends is shooting the behind-the-scenes footage of her tour), and then invited everyone over for “a dance party.” He pulls out his phone to show off some photos from the night, where his guests are posing in masks. “I have a big box of costumes,” Hutcherson explains, scrolling and laughing. “We got the Burger King guy, Indian chief, pumpkin girl….”
A box of costumes? Hutcherson isn’t particularly concerned with looking cool for a reporter, which is refreshing. When he talks about going to Bonnaroo with his kid brother earlier this year, he’s as excited to talk about Kendrick Lamar’s set as he is talking about how he and his brother rigged a makeshift A/C unit out of a fan and cooler full of ice,MacGyver-style. When Jennifer Lawrence performed Cher’s “Believe” in a bit on Conan, Hutcherson gamely sang back-up.
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On long-distance love with girlfriend Spanish actress Claudia Traisac:
“There’s a lot of traveling, a lot of Skype,” he says of his long-distance relationship. Skype can be a double-edged sword, I suggest and he doesn’t disagree outlining his struggles with being able to see his girlfriend but not, you know, touch her. “I feel like I’m with you because I’m seeing you and we’re talking,” he says, “but also you’re a fucking screen. It’s very frustrating.” But quickly his genial nature returns, and he focuses on the positive: “It’s kind of cool. We’re doing this international thing.” And it seems he’s thinking long-term, saying they might spend next summer together in New York. “We’re young, we make it work.”
Read the full article at DuJour.com.