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Josh Hutcherson stops by northern Kentucky restaurant while visiting hometown

Hitching Post in northern Kentucky.

The restaurant posted a photo with the caption, “Thanks for visiting with us, Josh Hutcherson!”

Hutcherson, best known for his role in “The Hunger Games” series, is from the area, born in Union, Kentucky. He most recently starred in the new TV Show called “I Love LA” which follows a friend group that gathers after years apart.

The actor has frequently visited his hometown over the years, participating in charity auctions and special events.

He’s also not the only celebrity to visit the local restaurant either.

While in town filming the movie “The Bikeriders” actors Tom Hardy and Austin Butler were also spotted at the restaurant.

Hardy, who has also been an active jiu-jitsu competitor and student for the past few years, was even seen training at a local martial arts facility and participating in camps in between movie shoots.

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Josh Hutcherson Reveals What ‘Hit Home’ About His I Love LA Character

Josh Hutcherson is surrounded by chaos in I Love LA, and that mirrors how his life sometimes feels.

The actor, 33, plays Dylan, the level-headed boyfriend of Rachel Sennott’s free-wheeling Maia in the HBO series, which Sennott, 30, created and wrote, and together, the pair balance each other out.

For Hutcherson, that contrast of freedom and structure rings true.

“I feel like Dylan is very much wanting to plan things and do things in a way that are logical and make sense,” he tells PEOPLE. “And I feel that I have a knack for surrounding myself with people that are the opposite, and that can be frustrating at times.”

The chaotic situations that Dylan finds himself in thanks to who he’s surrounded by — namely, Maia and her wild friends Talullah (Odessa A’zion), Alani (True Whitaker) and Charlie (Jordan Firstman) — “hit home” for Hutcherson.

Source: People

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Variety Interview

Josh Hutcherson on Why a ‘Hunger Games’ Return ‘Wouldn’t Take Any Convincing’ and How ‘I Love L.A.’ and ‘Five Nights at Freddy’s 2’ Got Him Out of a Major Slump

Josh Hutcherson was trying get the hell out of Los Angeles. For the better part of a decade, the “Hunger Games” star and his girlfriend, Spanish actor Claudia Traisac, had split their time between L.A. and Madrid, but the eight-hour time difference between the cities had grown wearying. So Hutcherson leased an apartment in Brooklyn, and in April of this year, the couple flew into New York City from Spain, eager to launch their new East Coast life — until, in the car from JFK, Hutcherson got a call from his agent.

“‘How do you feel about going back to the airport right now?’” Hutcherson recalls his agent asking. “I was like, ‘I don’t fucking feel good about it, not at all! Why?’”

The agent explained that Rachel Sennott, the buzzy star of indie hits “Bottoms” and “Shiva Baby,” was launching her first comedy series with HBO, and she wanted Hutcherson to play her character’s boyfriend. But it was going to start shooting in roughly two weeks, and the show’s eventual title doubled as its location: “I Love L.A.”

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I Love LA Renewed For Season 2 At HBO

Rachel Sennott is to take another stroll around the Silver Lake reservoir after HBO renewed comedy series I Love LA for a second season.

It comes as the hipster comedy series became a hit for the WBD network, on pace to become the second top freshman comedy on HBO Max. It is currently averaging 2M viewers in live-plus-three numbers across HBO and streaming.

It is one of two comedy series renewals with HBO also bringing back Tim Robinson’s The Chair Company for a second season.

I Love LA follows an ambitious friend group navigating life and love in LA. It stars Sennott as Maia, a young, aspiring talent manager, who is trying to make it in the cutthroat world of Los Angeles when her college friend Tallulah, a rising influencer played by Odessa A’zion, comes to town.

Source: Deadline

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Josh Eyeing New Horror Film

EXCLUSIVE: Josh Hutcherson, Frank Dillane, Caleb Landry Jones and Whitmer Thomas are in talks to join an untitled A24 horror pic from Arkasha Stevenson and Tim Smith. Stevenson will direct from a script written by her and Smith.

The film follows their debut First Omen, which Stevenson also directed and co-wrote with Smith.

The logline remains under wraps, but the film reportedly centers on a bachelor party that spirals into terror. Lars Knudsen and Emily Hildner will produce under Knudsen and Ari Aster’s Square Peg banner with Aster executive producing. Smith, Harrison Huffman and Christine D’Souza Gelb will also produce.

Source: Deadline

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“Traffic Is a Monster and Parking Is a Bitch”: Josh Hutcherson’s L.A. Diaries

Bouncing back and forth between Hollywood and his native Kentucky, Josh Hutcherson stole our hearts early, starring in YA classics like Bridge to Terabithia and the Hunger Games franchise. Now 33, Hutcherson, who next stars in Five Nights at Freddy’s 2, was settled in Brooklyn for all of about five minutes before HBO called him with a dream role: wholesome boy-next-door beau to Rachel Sennott’s aspiring Tinseltown talent manager in the network’s newest ensemble comedy, I Love LA. It’s a part that Hutcherson, who still remembers his child star days spent racing to auditions with his mom, was able to dive into easily—and deeply. So who better to chaperone us around the City of Angels in this week’s installment of Share Location? Below, Hutcherson tells all, from Koreatown thrifting  and Thai food must-haves to Dodger Stadium and the Hollywood Bowl.

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