Josh Hutcherson was not old enough to drink while he was starring in “The Hunger Games,” which he thought was an unfair law. When asked about the drinking age in the United States by TMZ in 2012, he replied, “I think the age to go to war is 18 … so I think the drinking age should be 18 as well.” Not long afterward, Hutcherson, who was 19 years old at the time, was spotted by TMZ leaving a grocery store with a bottle of Macallan. According to a source, the “Bridge to Terabithia” star used a fake ID to score the booze and could have gotten himself, as well as the grocery store, in trouble with the law.
Perhaps it was Jimmy Kimmel who gave Hutcherson the fake ID. During a visit to “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” (via E! News), the host recalled meeting the actor when he was just 13 years old. “Do you remember what you did? You didn’t tell me where babies came from, but you did give me a fake ID with what looked like the beard you are now wearing,” Hutcherson told Kimmel. “You literally gave me a fake ID and said ‘Welcome to Hollywood, kid.’ I almost got arrested a lot of times with that,” he added. Looks like the whiskey wasn’t the first and only time Hutcherson bought liquor underage.
