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They Cast Peeta and Gale
Looks like it's not just Katniss that they are going against hair-color description. Peeta now has dark hair and Gale is the blond.
From EW:
Josh Hutcherson (The Kids are All Right) and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) have joined the cast of Hunger Games in the roles of Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne, respectively, Lionsgate announced today in a release. Both actors will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence, who will play Katniss Everdeen, the heroine who volunteers to represent her remote district in the brutal annual survival test. Hutcherson, for one, has long thought he was right for the part:
Strangely, while Hutcherson was never who I pictured physically as Peeta, he was sort of my concept personality-wise (Based primarily on his performance in Bridge to Tarabithia, which, granted, was when he was a kid. But I liked that movie.
So, while he was never the physical picture in my head, I don't have any issue with the actor they chose. He can at least act.
Gale... I'm a bit more wary of. I saw The Last Song (on HBO. Shut up. ;) He wasn't awful there, but he wasn't exactly someone to knock my socks off either. He is very pretty though. But... now Gale is the blond. Hopefully he can act well enough that I can re-write the image of Gale in my head because this guy actually isn't. Based on The Last Song, he doesn't seem dark enough (and I'm not talking hair coloring on this one). Gale has to make some fairly difficult choices, so he needs to capable of being kind of hard-nosed if necessary and the image he had in the Miley Cyrus/Nicholas Sparks movie was good-guy next door... which is more Peeta-like.
From EW:
Josh Hutcherson (The Kids are All Right) and Liam Hemsworth (The Last Song) have joined the cast of Hunger Games in the roles of Peeta Mellark and Gale Hawthorne, respectively, Lionsgate announced today in a release. Both actors will star opposite Jennifer Lawrence, who will play Katniss Everdeen, the heroine who volunteers to represent her remote district in the brutal annual survival test. Hutcherson, for one, has long thought he was right for the part:
Strangely, while Hutcherson was never who I pictured physically as Peeta, he was sort of my concept personality-wise (Based primarily on his performance in Bridge to Tarabithia, which, granted, was when he was a kid. But I liked that movie.
So, while he was never the physical picture in my head, I don't have any issue with the actor they chose. He can at least act.
Gale... I'm a bit more wary of. I saw The Last Song (on HBO. Shut up. ;) He wasn't awful there, but he wasn't exactly someone to knock my socks off either. He is very pretty though. But... now Gale is the blond. Hopefully he can act well enough that I can re-write the image of Gale in my head because this guy actually isn't. Based on The Last Song, he doesn't seem dark enough (and I'm not talking hair coloring on this one). Gale has to make some fairly difficult choices, so he needs to capable of being kind of hard-nosed if necessary and the image he had in the Miley Cyrus/Nicholas Sparks movie was good-guy next door... which is more Peeta-like.
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Honestly, the biggest deal is whether or not they can carry the heft of the characters. Hutcherson doesn't look like Peeta, but I think he can pull off the character. Same goes for Lawrence. As long as they can act, I think it's all good.
Now, the question is the guy for Gale, because all there's to go by is "The Last Song" and, it just wasn't the same kind of character at all.