Josh Hutcherson Gets Candid About His Sexuality

Josh Hutcherson Gets Candid About His Sexuality

by Jeremy Blacklow                                                           

 

 

Josh Hutcherson certainly knows how to give a provocative interview. The young actor, who turns 21 on Saturday, gears up for all the hoopla surrounding the release of "The Hunger Games: Catching Fire" (out November 22) — the second of four movies based on Suzanne Collins's best-selling book series — he's not holding back at all about who he is and his attitudes towards sexuality.

 

Josh Hutcherson (Nino Muñoz/OUT)

"I would probably list myself as mostly straight," he tells Out magazine in its November cover story. "Maybe I could say right now I'm 100 percent straight. But who knows? In a f---ing year, I could meet a guy and be like, 'Whoa, I'm attracted to this person … I've met guys all the time that I'm like, 'Damn, that's a good-looking guy,' you know? I've never been, like, 'Oh, I want to kiss that guy.' I really love women. But I think defining yourself as 100% anything is kind of near-sighted and close-minded."

Josh Hutcherson (Nino Muñoz/OUT)

He continues, "I have this dream that one day, my kid's gonna come home from school and be like, 'Dad, there's this girl that I like, and there's this guy that I like, and I don't know which one I like more, and I don't know what to do.' And it'd just be a non-issue, like, 'Which one is a good person? Which one makes you laugh more?'"

Josh Hutcherson (copied from PerezHilton.com)

The actor also explains how the AIDS-related deaths of his two gay uncles, Steve and Jamie, in the early '90s played a big role in shaping his progressive outlook on life. In fact, one of his uncles, Steve, died only one day after Josh's mom revealed to her brother that she was pregnant with Josh. "[My mom] was really sad that I never got to meet them," he notes. "I am, too — they sound amazing."

Sounds like they'd certainly be proud of the path their nephew's chosen to walk.

In the "Hunger Games" films, Josh plays Peeta Mellark, a baker's son from the impoverished District 12, who finds himself in an unconventional love triangle with heroine Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) and Gale Hawthorne (Liam Hemsworth). In the movies, Peeta and 23 other "tributes" are forced to battle to the death in a game-like arena.

 

Josh Hutcherson (copied from Just Jared)

When asked if he thinks a threesome might be "a more expedient solution to at least some of Peeta's problems," he replies: "I know Peeta would be into it, for sure. He's very sensitive, in touch with his emotions. I think it really might solve a lot of their problems. You know what? I'm going to pitch that idea. Let's make it a — what's it called when three people are in a relationship together? A triad? … That'll go over well with Middle America."

Peeta sounds a lot like Josh. And despite what Middle America thinks, Hutcherson is extremely progressive in his views about equality, and has a strong history of activism in the gay community. In fact, he co-founded the group Straight But Not Narrow, which helps equip heterosexual-identified young people with the tools they need to fight homophobia.

"As soon as I got any ounce of notoriety to bring attention to any kind of issue, it was just an obvious choice," Hutcherson tells Out. "Look at any voting map, and even in a state that's completely red, if you look where a college is — young, educated people — it's blue, without fail. That's got to show that the next generation, and people who get an education, are less ignorant."

In 2012, Josh was presented with the Vanguard Award by GLAAD in recognition of his work, an honor that's given to a straight ally who fights for LGBT equality.

In his acceptance speech, he spoke about why he launched Straight But Not Narrow. "We wanted to create a place where straight people felt safe coming out and saying, 'It’s okay to be gay,'" he said. "And I didn't know one, so we decided we were going to make one and we have. It's gaining momentum and it means the world to me."

UPDATE: X-Men: Days of Future Past

X-Men: Days of Future Past

 

• James McAvoy and Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier / Professor X: According to Stewart, there will be an explanation for Professor X's return after he was vaporized by Jean Grey in X-Men: The Last Stand.

 

• Michael Fassbender and Ian McKellen as Erik Lehnsherr / Magneto

 

• Jennifer Lawrence as Raven Darkhölme / Mystique: Director Bryan Singer stated that Mystique "is less innocent, evolved, getting closer to where Mystique was in X-Men 2."

 

• Nicholas Hoult as Hank McCoy / Beast

 

• Hugh Jackman as Logan / Wolverine: Singer stated that "Hugh of the future is sent, his consciousness is sent into his younger self [and] Hugh gets to play both parts because Wolverine is ageless."

 

• Anna Paquin as Marie / Rogue

 

• Shawn Ashmore as Bobby Drake / Iceman: When Ashmore was asked about what can be expected to see how his character's relationship with Rogue has evolved since X-Men: The Last Stand, he replied "they’re constantly having these relationship issues so we’ll see what happens."

 

• Ellen Page as Kitty Pryde: Singer described Pryde as the prime facilitator and that Pryde's phasing ability enables time-travel to happen.

• Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask: A military scientist and the head of Trask Industries who created a range of robots called Sentinels whose purpose is to hunt and destroy mutants.

 

• Omar Sy as Bishop

 

• Halle Berry as Ororo Munroe / Storm: Berry stated that "there’s something very revealing and shocking about Storm in this movie. There are some things you find out about her that I think give you much more insight into who she is." When asked about if her pregnancy affected Storm's role, she replied "I wasn’t in as much as I was meant to be. My ever-growing belly was posing a constant challenge! What I could do was getting more limited so the role that I play is so different from what it could have been, due to my surprise pregnancy."

 

• Daniel Cudmore as Peter Rasputin / Colossus

 

• Fan Bingbing as Blink

 

• Adan Canto as Sunspot

 

• Evan Peters as Quicksilver

 

• Josh Helman as William Stryker

 

• Lucas Till as Alex Summers / Havok

 

BooBoo Stewart has also been cast in an unknown role. Warpath will also be appearing in the film.

The Sentinels are coming!

 

"X-Men" fans were thrilled to learn at Comic-Con that The Sentinels robots would be appearing in the next film, "X-Men: Days of Future Past." Now, we can get an in depth look at them on a newly launched Trask Industries website (http//:www.trask-industries.com) from Fox.

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A follow-up to both 2006 "X-Men: The Last Stand" & 2011 "X-Men: First Class," Bryan Singer's "X-Men: Days of Future Past" splits time between 1973 and a future year. Patrick Stewart, James McAvoy, Ian McKellan, Michael Fassbender, Hugh Jackman, Jennifer Lawrence, Halle Berry, and Anna Paquin are among the cast members of both films set to reprise their roles (yes, we'll see both Stewart and McAvoy as Professor Xavier).

Stewart has described the time-bending epic as the "'X-Men' of all 'X-Men' pictures."

Celebrating the company's 50th anniversary, the Trask site is chock full of interesting tidbits, facts, and images, including one of a Sentinel at President Ronald Reagan's inauguration. There's info about founder Bolivar Trask (played by "Game of Thrones" star Peter Dinklage, as well as a self-congratulatory video about all the great work the company has done over the years.

The promotional footage (rather ominously) notes, "As we celebrate five decades of achievement, we also bid farewell to regular production of the Mark I and shift our efforts to full-time manufacturing of the Mark X our first complete overhaul of the Sentinel line.

Aside from the robots, the site also revealed that the X-Gene Inhibitor Collar, a device in the comics that blocks mutant abilities, will apparently be making an appearance in ‘X-Men: Days of Future Past.’ Of course, there are tons more goodies that await to be dug up, including more info on Trask Industries, but you can get your first look at Peter Dinklage as Bolivar Trask, as well as the first official photos of the Sentinels.

‘X-Men: Days of Future Past’ stars both casts of the original ‘X-Men’ films and ‘First Class,’ adapting the famous comic book story of the same name for the big screen. After the world is overrun by mutant-killing Sentinel robots, Wolverine must go back in time to warn the X-Men of the life-altering event that sets his apocalyptic future into motion. ."

(Side-Bar) In the comics, Trask also has a time-traveling mutant daughter, Tanya, who’s tangled up with some of the weirder parts of the Marvel Multiverse, but if I’m going to talk about Tanya, I’m going to have to talk about Earth-811, and the Askani cult, and the hellish mess that is the Summers/Grey chronology, and then this article will be 10,000 words long and we’ll all still be confused.