Austin Butler reveals failed audition for key ‘Hunger Games’ character

Austin Butler has revealed that he unsuccessfully auditioned to play Peeta Mellark in The Hunger Games.READ MORE: ‘The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes’ review: sings a pleasingly familiar tuneThe role ultimately went to Josh Hutcherson, who starred in four Hunger Games movies between 2012 and 2015 opposite Jennifer Lawrence as Katniss Everdeen and Liam Hemsworth as Gale Hawthorne.
“I auditioned for ‘The Hunger Games’ and I didn’t get it at all