Josh Hutcherson on Spider

Josh Hutcherson nearly traded in Peeta Mellark’s apron for a spider suit.

The Hunger Games actor reflected on the time he was almost cast as Peter Parker in 2012’s The Amazing Spider-Man , which ultimately went to Andrew Garfield .

“A few months before I got cast in Hunger Games , I was in the running to be Spider-Man,” Josh, 33, explained in the Dec. 8 episode of Jesse Tyler Ferguson ’s Dinner’s on Me podcast. “I got told ‘no’ which, as a teenager, was heartbreaking because I obviously wanted to be Spider-Man. But then, I was cast in the Hunger Games . That was the craziest turn of events.”

He continued, “ Hunger Games came out of nowhere. It just changed everything.”

But Josh still remembers how hard he worked for his