While at the MTV Movie Awards yesterday, The Hunger Games star Josh Hutcherson (who plays Peeta) revealed that he’s now met with Catching Fire director Francis Lawrence.

Said Hutcherson to E! Online:

“I sat down with him a couple of days ago,” Hutcherson told me at the MTV Movie Awards. “He’s fantastic. He’s such a smart guy. He has some great ideas for the movie.”

“I just really like where his head is at,” he continued. “I really like him a lot.”

Most of their chat focused on Peeta.

“We talked about character development in the stories,” Hutcherson said. “As you know, the second book is more complicated than the first, so we talked about the narrative. Everything he said was super smart.”

Hutcherson was publicly hoping that The Hunger Games director Gary Ross would end up staying on for the sequel, but ultimately Ross was not satisfied with the timeframe he had to work with.