'The Hunger Games' star Liam Hemsworth talks getting a second chance with 'The Expendables 2'

After being written out of the first film, Stallone came calling for the sequel

By Chris Eggertsen Monday, Mar 12, 2012 9:17 AM

Liam Hemsworth in "The Expendables 2".

Credit: Lionsgate

Imagine this: you win a role in Sylvester Stallone's latest action film, only to find out that your character has been written out of the script shortly before production is scheduled to begin. It's a story Liam Hemsworth knows well; in 2009 the young actor was offered to co-star opposite Stallone in "The Expendables", only for his role to end up in the paper shredder before the cameras started rolling. Luckily, however, Stallone remembered him for the sequel, which is hitting theaters on August 17 (watch the trailer here).

"I met him about a year later when I was living in the States, and he was talking about, 'we're gonna make the second one...I'd love to talk to you about it when it comes around.' And it came back around, and he called me, and he said, 'I have this part and i'd love you to do it'", recounted Hemsworth, speaking during a press roundtable for his upcoming film "The Hunger Games", in which he stars as Jennifer Lawrence's love interest Gale Hawthorne.

It was then that he finally had the opportunity to co-star opposite a slew of action-movie heavyweights including Stallone, Jason Statham, Jet Li, Dolph Lundgren, Chuck Norris, Jean-Claude Van Damme, Bruce Willis and - the Holy Grail of the lot - former California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. "I [worked with] everyone and anyone that I'd grown up watching in action films. As a young male actor it was pretty incredible to be on set with them and working with them and interacting with them and hanging out with them," said Hemsworth. "It was pretty cool."

Are you looking forward to "The Expendables 2", or were you disappointed by the first movie and feel the sequel isn't worth your time and money? Share your thoughts below.

Chris Eggertsen
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I'llbeback

Yeah Van Damme Baby!
March 12, 2012 at 9:45AM EST Reply to Comment
ted anderson

I'd love to see it if it was rated R. But if it's PG-13 count me out.
March 12, 2012 at 10:08AM EST Reply to Comment
- Ingram Reply to comment...I second that, not wasting my money on a movie with the same level of violence as a spy kids flick!
  
  March 12, 2012 at 10:34AM EST
- I trust stallone on this one. he's been remarkably honest/earnest in the last few years and has yet to make a bad movie. I'll miss the gore, but this will help introduce the younglings to the stars of our youth and theyll go watch real action movies :D
  
  On top of that, look at the concessions Vin Diesel had to make to get the next Riddick movie an R. Studio pressure will table a movie no matter how match star power when it comes to that forbidden R
  March 12, 2012 at 4:42PM EST

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'The Hunger Games' star Liam Hemsworth talks getting a second chance with 'The Expendables 2'

After being written out of the first film, Stallone came calling for the sequel