I put on fifteen pounds of muscle, so that was a lot of eating chicken and a high protein, low-carb diet. Also a lot of heavy lifting and a very different kind of training with an ex-navy SEAL guy who wanted to kill me every time I got with him. In a good way.

Hutcherson also appeared in a film adaptation of the book Cirque Du Freak. Being from Northern Kentucky Hutcherson has been a lifelong fan of both the University of Kentucky's Wildcats and nearby Cincinnati Ohio's Major League Baseball team the Reds. Hutcherson's next role was in Firehouse Dog (released on April 4 2007) in which he played Shane Fahey a firefighter's son who befriends a dog.

Joshua Ryan "Josh" Hutcherson (born October 12 1992) is an American film and television actor. Hutcherson was also featured on a Celebrity Teens edition of the hit show MTV Cribs and portrayed Peeta Mellark in the 2012 film The Hunger Games. He began working in the early 2000s appearing in several minor film and television roles.