Another day, another blond hunk too old for the role talking about how he's being considered to play Peeta in The Hunger Games. Just a week after Alex Pettyfer said he'd met with producers about playing the role, Weeds star Hunter Parrish is telling E! Online the same thing. He didn't have much to say, but here it is:

"I've met the producers. I'd be grateful to get the opportunity. Like, really grateful. It would be amazing."

Parrish is 23, but since he's been on Weeds since he was 18 it might be easier for people to picture him playing the 16-year-old Peeta. But Parrish himself recognizes he's too old to star opposite some of the younger actresses up for playing the lead role, and love interest, of Katniss: "I think if it ended up being Hailee Steinfeld or Saoirse [Ronan] or who's the other one? Abigail Breslin. Then it would be weird. It would be really weird." Unfortunately for most fans of the Hunger Games, all three of those actresses seem better for the part than the rumored frontrunner, Jennifer Lawrence, who at 20 is just like Parrish: too old.

Based on the direction all these Hunger Games rumors have been going the last few days, it looks like the fans who are demanding a teenage Katniss and Peeta are going to lose out. Lawrence and Parish are both perfectly talented-- though I don't watch Weeds, so you guys will have to fill me in about his specific skills in the comments-- but casting them still seems to be missing the point that The Hunger Games books are about children-- not adults-- doing terrible things in the name of a brutal government. Anybody else still with me on this one?