Austin Butler is an Oscar nominee; it’s pretty obvious that losing the role of Peeta Mellark to Josh Hutcherson didn’t hurt his career in the slightest. Around the time that “The Hunger Games” came out in 2012,
Butler showed up in television shows like “Life Unexpected” and the short-lived “Sex and the City” prequel “The Carrie Diaries.” A few years later in 2019, he actor had a huge breakthrough when he took on a much more mature role as real-life figure Tex Watson in Quentin Tarantino’s revisionist history “Once Upon a Time in Hollywood,” and it was only upwards for Butler from there.
In 2022, Butler starred as the King himself in Baz Luhrmann’s sensational, super-stylized biopic “Elvis,” earning an Oscar nod for best actor (and picking up an accent that he still, to this day, doesn’t seem to be able to fully shake).
Since then, Butler has been a part of enormous projects like “Dune: Part Two” (as the secondary antagonist Feyd-Rautha Harkonnen, nephew of Stellan Skårsgard’s Baron Vladimir Harkonnen) and the AppleTV+ series “Masters of the Air,” and “The Bikeriders” is just his most recent high-profile film.
Butler will likely only keep getting bigger and bigger roles, so he’s probably not losing any sleep over not playing Peeta Mellark.
