The makers of The Hunger Games have obviously realised that filling the films with hot guys doesn’t hurt. For Catching Fire Josh Hutcherson and Luke Hemsworth are joined by the likes of Sam Claflin, Jack Quaid, and Alan Ritchson.
As many noted when Smallville actor Ritchson was cast, the extremely buff 28-year-old used to do underwear modelling, and it appears that helped ensure he wasn’t as self-conscious in some scenes as others were.
He tells E! News, “For me, I’d walk out in a thong thinking, ‘I’m in costume.’ It’s like, ‘Hey, I’m ready for the death scene,’ and they’d be like, ‘Uh, we can see part of your crotch.'”
However he did have some qualms about the skintight costumes they had to wear into the arena, due to all the food he’d been eating, “It was awful. You know what it’s like going home and wanting to eat some good soul food in Atlanta and having to squeeze my greasy, fried-chicken self into that thing every morning? It was terrible. It was a pretty nuts costume.
“Everybody’s in it though so you don’t feel too bad. But everybody was like, ‘Do I look fat in this?'”
One problem did arise with what the guys were wearing under their skintight costumes. “We walked out there in boxer-briefs,” Ritchson says, “but they were like, ‘You can see everything underneath that. You need to put on this thong, dance-belt kind of thing.'”
Eventually the guys ended up in cycling shorts. We’ll be able to see whether that successfully hid everything now that Catching Fire is due in cinemas.
And if you’re wondering about Ritchson’s underwear modelling past, get an eyeful below (click for a proper view).
Pictures 3, 4 & 5 by International Jock (https://www.internationaljock.com/), taken at the International Jock studios by their photographers.
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