New photos from the I Love LA Los Angeles Premiere
What he brought on a trip to Japan……..
The drugstore item he never travels without:
Advil. Always have Advil on hand. Before this trip, I had tiny travel size tubes, and there were two left. I had to refill it with the big boy. Maybe you had a fun night the night before, maybe you’re sore from a workout—whatever it is, Advil. Especially traveling abroad. In Spain, for example, you don’t get Advil. You get, like, acetaminophen, but you have to get a doctor’s note to get it.
His favorite item of travel clothing:
The production company that shot [Late Checkout] in Japan was actually a little team from Spain, and the director of photography was wearing these Issey Miyake pants. They’re the most comfortable pants in the world—these silky, pleated pants. Now, [they’ve become] my number one travel piece. I used to wear jeans or sweatpants on the plane, and these are like sweatpants that look much better. You’re tricking everyone. I do them in navy, black, or gray. I don’t get too spicy.
The tech that keeps him connected:
Have you heard of the iPhone? I’m just kidding. Since I’m sensitive to light, if I travel somewhere and they don’t have dimmer switches, I go crazy. I either bring them with me or buy them when I get there—you plug them in, and then plug the lamp in to them. I also always pack my Apple Watch as well, but I only wear it when I’m working out. I run a lot, so it tracks my miles, heart rate, all that stuff. In Nikko, I had a nice big run, halfway around [Lake Chūzenji] and back. I realized, shit, I should have just run all the way around the lake. I also always have Air Pods to keep the music going.
The music:
Lately, it’s Rosalía’s new album. Fucking incredible. I also listen to, kind of, obscure French electronica. This guy named Flavian Berger, some classic stuff. Every now and then, Bob Dylan kind of creeps into my world. The only genre I don’t really listen to much of is modern country.
The piece of home he always packs—and brings back as a souvenir:
I don’t have a fragrance, but I love, love incense. Everywhere I travel, I bring incense to the hotel. I don’t know if hotels actually allow that, but I always do, and I’ve never gotten charged extra. Ask for forgiveness, not permission is what my parents always taught me. It’s very comforting when I travel so much, and never know where I’m waking up or what’s going on, to get grounded in a consistent scent. As a kid, my grandpa used to always have incense lit, the classic Nag Champa. But I also buy them whereever I go—I have one right now that I got in Kyoto. Okay, the Japanese incense are bougie as hell. They smell great, but they’re expensive. I got a box that was, like, $35 for 20 [sticks]. I’m like, “Oh my god, what am I doing?”
Source: CN Traveler
We asked the 33-year-old about his busy weekend, which saw him battle both Chuck E. Cheese-esque animatronics and Rachel Sennott.
ESQUIRE: How did you get involved with I Love LA? It feels like Rachel Sennott wrote the character of Dylan for you.
JOSH HUTCHERSON: That’s Rachel’s secret sauce. She finds a way to cast things perfectly for what she wants and also writes to those voices extremely well. They actually shot the pilot with a different actor playing Dylan a year before. The show went through some changes, and they reached out to me to be the new Dylan. I was over the moon. Rachel’s brilliant. So fucking funny, so smart, such a unique voice. And being on an HBO comedy show, like Girls, Sex and the City, Entourage—it was a dream come true.
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Jennifer Lawrence and Josh Hutcherson are reportedly set to return to the Hunger Games in next year’s highly anticipated prequel.
The pair last starred together in Mockingjay – Part 2, the climactic installment of the original film series.
US magazines The Hollywood Reporter and Deadline reported that Lawrence, 35, returns as Katniss Everdeen while Hutcherson, 33, will reprise his role of Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping.
They suggest the actors will appear in a flash-forward sequence which features in the novel the new film’s based on.
The production company Lionsgate did not respond to a request for comment.
Source: BBC
Josh Hutcherson on the ‘Hunger Games’ Co-star That Makes the Best Travel Companion—and the North Carolina City He Loves
Best hack for jet lag?
Take a nap as soon as you get to wherever you’re going. I don’t care where you’re flying. If it’s a long haul, take at least an hour, no more than a two-hour nap. Then try to make it until 11:00 at night local time. If you can do that, I feel like that can get you through it.
Celebrity friend who is the best travel companion?
Honestly, probably Woody Harrelson. No matter where you go in the world, he’s down to explore and get lost in the city. He doesn’t care if people recognize him and take pictures. He’s like, “Alright, cool. Let’s have a picture. Let’s move on to the next spot.” He always finds his way to the cool little nooks and crannies of the city.
Most romantic destination?
I love Oaxaca. My girlfriend and I went there a few years ago. The culture is incredible, the people were amazing, and it’s just a beautiful place. It’s very laid-back. The nature is really beautiful too, and you can enjoy it with your person.
Dream destination?
I’m dying to do an amazing Africa trip and get to know the whole continent—sub-Saharan, North Africa, everything. I’m so unfamiliar with the culture.
Perfect late checkout?
Get all your stuff packed, put your bags by the door, have the incense on, and just lay back on that bed in between the awake and asleep state.
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Josh Hutcherson is shrugging off Quentin Tarantino’s claim that “The Hunger Games” franchise “ripped off” a Japanese book and film with a similar concept called “Battle Royale.”
“There are similar themes, for sure,” Hutcherson, 33, told Variety in an interview published Wednesday. “But, you know, everyone borrows from everyone.”
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Josh Hutcherson’s Secret to Being an “Internet Boyfriend”? Stay Offline.
HEN THE FIRST Five Nights at Freddy’s movie was released in 2023, Josh Hutcherson said his character, Mike Schmidt, may be the role he related with more than any other. Not the part where Mike tangles with possessed animatronic pizzeria mascots, but the part where he has a deep connection to his baby brother (Hutcherson’s real little bro, Connor, has also dabbled in acting) and an obsession with the meaning behind dreams (He himself is fascinated by “lucid dreaming and dream incubation).
Hutcherson has been acting since the age of nine, when he picked up a phone book in his family’s Kentucky home and called himself an agent. In the time since, he’s played ordinary guys in varying degrees of extraordinary circumstance more than a few times: a reluctant revolutionary in The Hunger Games (making him a reluctant meme in the process), the adopted child of a loving lesbian couple who still yearns to meet his biological dad in The Kids Are All Right, a listless gamer yanked into real sci-fi shenanigans in the cult comedy series Future Man.
But on the eve of Five Nights at Freddy’s 2 hitting theaters following the original’s blockbuster success, Mike Schmidt may have met his match—when it comes to the claim of Hutcherson’s most relatable role. In Rachel Sennott’s buzzy HBO comedy series I Love LA, Hutcherson plays Dylan, the token even-keeled straight guy in a group of over-the-top girls and gays. It’s a part he proudly plays among the cast off-camera too.
“I realized that I haven’t played a normal guy in a normal, real-life reality since I was 15 in The Kids Are All Right,” Hutcherson says. “It’s been really fun to get back to the basics and just be a dude in the world having fun and fucking shit up.” Viewers are enjoying it too, with Dylan’s normcore charm landing Hutcherson “internet boyfriend” status.
Source: Men’s Health
While HBO’s I Love LA has been praised for its cocaine-fueled and roofie joke-laced brand of comedic chaos, one of the pilot’s standout quips is also among its most low-key ad libs. Moments after Maia (Rachel Sennott, the show’s creator) begs her boyfriend, Dylan (Josh Hutcherson), not to let an earthquake interrupt their birthday sex — “If we’re gonna die, I just wanna come!” she cries — she starts lamenting how much older she looks now that she’s turned 27. “You’re skinnier now,” Dylan replies dryly. Then, he waits a beat before dropping the punchline Hutcherson improvised mid-take: “Which I know you love!”
The way Hutcherson sees it, it’s this kind of tiny-but-telling aside that reveals who Dylan really is and what his relationship with Maia is actually like: something far more layered than just being the nice, normie Spanish teacher to her high-strung influencer manager. “When I was reading the scripts and talking with Rachel about it, [I said], ‘I don’t know why Dylan is with Maia. We have to figure out what that is [because] there’s a version of Dylan that’s very judgy of her,” the actor tells me over a bacon-heavy breakfast at Nine Orchard, the Lower East Side hotel he’s staying at for the week. The version that interested him most was a Dylan who isn’t totally comfortable complimenting Maia for being thinner, yet will still do it because he knows it’s exactly what she wants to hear. “What I wanted to bring to Dylan is that he finds her existence attractive: her wackiness, her spinning, chaotic mind.”
Source: Bustle