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Josh Hutcherson is reflecting on the position that might’ve been over ten years in the past when he auditioned for 2012’s The Wonderful Spider-Man.
The actor was near enjoying the Marvel superhero within the reboot, however the position finally went to Andrew Garfield. Hutcherson mentioned nobody advised him why he wasn’t chosen to offer life to Peter Parker however the silver lining was that he was capable of land The Starvation Video games as a substitute.
“You by no means discover out,” he advised Inverse in an interview about not touchdown the Spider-Man position. “They only find yourself hiring anyone else. So, I by no means discovered why. I additionally do know that three weeks or so after I auditioned, I ended up getting Starvation Video games, so it sort of labored out.”
Hutcherson additionally advised the publication he “was a giant Spider-Man fan all my life from the old-school cartoons and stuff.”
Garfield lately reprised his position of Spider-Man in 2021’s Spider-Man: No Approach House as a part of the multiverse alongside Tobey Maguire, who had beforehand portrayed the superhero on the large display screen. On condition that the multiverse opens up any storyline chance, Hutcherson mentioned he can be “doubtlessly” fascinated by enjoying Spider-Man if given the chance, saying, “Yeah, I’d be open to it, man. I’d throw some webs round.”
Though Hutcherson didn’t star in The Wonderful Spider-Man, he did star as Peeta Mellark in The Starvation Video games saga throughout 4 movies. Hutcherson would go on to star in movies like Escobar: Paradise Misplaced, The Catastrophe Artist, 5 Night time at Freddy’s, and most lately The Beekeeper.
