Josh Hutcherson on the Frustrations of His Long-Distance Relationship With Claudia Traisac
Josh Hutcherson and Claudia Traisac (Getty Images)
Being a jet-setting international movie star is killing Josh Hutcherson’s vibe.
The Hunger Games star has been in a long-distance relationship with Spanish actress Claudia Traisac, whom he met on the set of Escobar: Paradise Lost, for more than two years — and it ain’t easy.
“There’s a lot of traveling, a lot of Skype,” the 23-year-old actor said in the November issue of DuJour magazine.
Though he has a love-hate thing going on with digital conversing. “I feel like I’m with you because I’m seeing you and we’re talking, but also you’re a f–king screen,” Hutcherson complained. “It’s very frustrating.”
Careful, Josh — some of your fans may be hiding in that brush. (DuJour)
But he tries to keep it in perspective. “It’s kind of cool,” the Kentucky native allowed. “We’re doing this international thing. We’re young, we make it work.”
The pair is planning to spend next summer together in New York — though he may not want to tip off his fans about his whereabouts, even if it is as vague as the island of Manhattan.
“I was shooting in Cincinnati and I woke up one morning to go to work,” he told the mag. “I walked to my car. And literally sitting on the ground, sleeping in front of the car — huddled up in hoodies and blankets — were two 12 or 13-year-old girls and their mom. They popped up like a f–king Jack-in-the-Box. They said they’d been waiting there for hours and hours for me to come out. I was like, this is not right.”
It’s not right, but that’s what happens to international movie stars.
