Austin Butler Reveals He Auditioned to Play Peeta in Hunger Games: ‘I Don’t Even Think I Got a Call Back’

Austin Butler has range. The actor has starred in everything from musical biopics to sci-fi epics to WWII dramas, but he recently revealed that he was almost part of one of the biggest YA franchises in the world. While promoting his new film The Bikeriders, Butler told BuzzFeed that he actually once auditioned to play Peeta in The Hunger Games — unsuccessfully, that is. “I auditioned for The Hunger Games and I didn’t get it at all,” said Butler.

However, if we were truly in the alternate universe in which Austin Butler played Peeta, he wouldn't have been able to play Sebastian Kydd in The Carrie Diaries, which aired in 2013 only months after The Hunger Games' release. Could you imagine being robbed of that? Thankfully, there are more opportunities in the future for Butler to join The Hunger Games universe if he so wishes.

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