
“He walked in and he said, ‘Listen, I Understand this guy, and in many ways, I am this guy,’” recalls Ross. “Then he articulated exactly what our view of the character was. Suzanne Collins was actually in town with me that day, and we sort of looked at each other and went, Well, yeah, that’s exactly how we see the character, and she created him. And then he proceeded to show us exactly that in his audition, so we were pretty clear from the outset.” They called Hutcherson back for a chemistry test with Lawrence and that sealed it. “Sometimes as a director, when you’re in an audition, you see the movie reveal itself in front of you for the first time, and that’s what I felt when I saw them together,” Ross says.