Hey TWIST Readers!
There are only FOUR more days until the premiere of The Hunger Games! We can't believe it's so soon! At TWIST we've been anxiously counting down the days with exclusive stories from the star themselves like Jackie Emerson, Kalia Prescott, Willow Shields, and Amandla Stenberg just to name a few! They've spilled all about the crazy pranks they've pulled and what it was like to be on set. For Day 8 of The Hunger Games countdown we're sharing a hilarious story from Peeta Mellark himself, Josh Hutcherson! He spilled to TWIST exclusively about the funniest thing that happened on set with Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth before they even started filming The Hunger Games.
"Before we started filming Liam, Jennifer, and I were all hanging out and we decided--in Ashville, North Carolina--and we decided that we wanted to go find a river to go swimming in. So we went looking around for a river and we found one and it was freezing so we decided not to go swimming, but Liam had never heard of a crawdad, which, I don't know if anybody else here has, but in Kentucky, where Jennifer and I are both from, there's little lobster creatures that are in rivers that you can pick and you put in stir fry. Kind of like a crawfish. And Liam had never seen one before, and I was like, 'I'm gonna find you a crawdad, Liam!' So I was looking for one under a rock and I thought I had one so I grabbed one and pulled it out, and it was actually a leech and the leech was stuck to my hand. So I'm flinging my hand around, jumping around like a crazy person 'cause I like--I can handle a lot of things, but things sticking to me trying to suck my blood, I'm no into. So it was a pretty funny moment."
That's hilarious! We don't know what we would have done if we were in Josh's situation. We're glad to hear that the leech wasn't on for too long!
Are you on Team Peeta? Tell us why in the comments and be sure to pick up the March issue of TWIST for a pull-out Hunger Games mag!
May the odds be ever in your favor,
Chelsey
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