Joseph Zada Wins the Part of Haymitch Abernathy

Out of thousands of young actors who tried for it, Joseph Zada is the one who will play Haymitch Abernathy in *The Hunger Games: Sunrise on the Reaping*. It's a well-loved part, and he earned it the old-fashioned way: a long casting call and a single name at the end. Vanity Fair also suggests that the actor and the character have a little more in common than the script. It's the kind of name people around the dinner table will start mentioning well before the film opens.

With reporting from Vanity Fair.