United Kingdom, June 11 -- Josh Hutcherson "resented" his fame after The Hunger Games.

The 33-year-old actor became a household name in 2012 when he played Peeta Mellark in the first of the blockbuster movies and while he was thankful he and co-stars Jennifer Lawrence and Liam Hemsworth could lean on one another as they learned to navigate life in the spotlight, he didn't enjoy the attention.

Speaking to Hunger Games co-star Elizabeth Banks for Variety's Actors on Actors series, he said: "It was crazy. It was such a massive machine, and it was such a formative time of my life.

"We all went through so many changes together. We leaned on each other, hard-core. It was really intimidating.

"I'm from a small town in Kentucky. I started act...