Josh hutcherson on losing out on playing spider-man & open to making cameo for multiverse: “i’d throw some webs around”
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Josh Hutcherson is reflecting on the role that could’ve been over ten years ago when he auditioned for 2012’s _The Amazing Spider-Man_. The actor was close to playing the Marvel superhero in
the reboot, but the role ultimately went to Andrew Garfield. Hutcherson said no one told him why he wasn’t selected to give life to Peter Parker but the silver lining was that he was able
to land _The Hunger Games_ instead. “You never find out,” he told _Inverse_ in an interview about not landing the Spider-Man role. “They just end up hiring somebody else. So, I never found
out why. I also do know that three weeks or so after I auditioned, I ended up getting Hunger Games, so it kind of worked out.” Hutcherson also told the publication he “was a big Spider-Man
fan all my life from the old-school cartoons and stuff.” WATCH ON DEADLINE Garfield recently reprised his role of Spider-Man_ _in 2021’s _Spider-Man: No Way Home_ as part of the multiverse
alongside Tobey Maguire, who had previously portrayed the superhero on the big screen. Given that the multiverse opens up any storyline possibility, Hutcherson said he would be “potentially”
interested in playing Spider-Man if given the opportunity, saying, “Yeah, I’d be open to it, man. I’d throw some webs around.” Although Hutcherson didn’t star in _The Amazing Spider-Man_,
he did star as Peeta Mellark in _The Hunger Games_ saga across four films. Hutcherson would go on to star in films like _Escobar: Paradise Lost_, _The Disaster Artist_, _Five Night at
Freddy’s_, and most recently _The Beekeeper_.