United Kingdom, Dec. 10 -- Josh Hutcherson didn't experience "rejection" in Hollywood until after The Hunger Games.

The 33-year-old star - who was 18 when he was cast as Peeta Mellark opposite Jennifer Lawrence's Katness Everdeen - admitted it was only after the fourth movie in the original series that he started to learn about how difficult the film industry can be.

He told the Dinner's On Me podcast: "I didn't learn rejection ever.

"I knew only success from the age nine to, like, 24, then kind of post Hunger Games world. Because Hunger Games set things up.

"The industry is so goddamn tricky because they set you up in this way where they're like, 'You've arrived. You now are working with Jennifer Lawrence and Philip Seymour Hoffman, ...